 By October 1949 preparations were made to deport 600 Hungarian families.Finally, on 25 July 1949, Czechoslovak and Hungarian delegations met in Štrbské pleso and signed so-called Štrba protocol () which ended the law disputes between Hungarian and Czechoslovak property and legal question and compensation of deported Hungarians.In 2002 before Slovakia and Hungary joined the European Union in 2004, Hungarian politician Viktor Orbán demanded the repeal of the Beneš decrees, but the European Parliament asserted that "the decrees did not constitute an insurmountable obstacle to accession."