According to a statement by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Civil Rights (the Ombudsman), in Hungary crime reporting by email has the same legal value as that performed by traditional means.

Under the relevant regulations, each document submitted to the police has to be filed and a police decision on whether to further investigate or to reject the case has to be taken within the three following days.

The Ombudsman stated that the documents communicated by electronic means have to be handled similarly, thus doing away with the legal uncertainty associated to this reporting means and its processing by the police forces. 

Further information: 

• Ombudsman's Statement (in Hungarian)
• Original news article - The Hungarian News Agency (in Hungarian)