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New Austrian Bill on Group Action Claims

Procedural Law 

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice has presented the government bill draft for the implementation of the long overdue Group Actions Directive (Verbandsklage-Richtlinie). A new Qualified Entities Act (Qualifizierte-Einrichtungen-Gesetz, hereinaf...

DE: Reduction of commercial lease payments in the lockdown

Civil Law 

The German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) granted tenants of commercially used premises a right for lease adjustment as a result of a lockdown. However, all individual circumstances, such as state aid as well as loss of turnover or in...

OGH: If entry is prohibited, no rent has to be paid

Civil Law 

The Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, OGH) ruled for the first time that the rent exemption under Section 1104 of the Austrian General Civil Code (Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, ABGB) is also applicable if business premises were sub...

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