The role and activities of national institutional mechanisms in promoting and protecting minority rights 2012, para. 68
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The Act on the Rights of Nationalities of Hungary of 2011 includes the right to establish "nationality self-governments" for recognized minorities, based on a system originally established in 1993. Self-governments provide an institutional framework for cultural autonomy, there being hundreds of self-governments at the local level with elected minority representatives. Similarly, Estonia indicated to the Independent Expert that ethnic minorities have the right to establish institutions of self-government in accordance with the National Minorities Cultural Autonomy Act, and that a Council of Ethnic Minorities exists within the framework of the Ministry of Culture.