The CAM legislation from 1997 (142) regulates Phytotherapy. Physicians and practitioners must have a licence to practise according to regulations. The non-medical practitioners have to be official registered members of the public health system.
142. 11/1997 (V.28.) NM rendelet a természetgyógyászati tevékenység gyakorlásának egyes kérdéseiröl (Decree of the Ministry of Social Welfare on the practice of CAM), The government of Hungary(1997).