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All PostsAustrian Government Unveils Inflation Relief Act for Tenancy Law
Civil LawThe Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice recently presented the government bill for the Inflation Relief Act for Tenancy Law (Mietrechtliches Inflationslinderungsgesetz, hereinafter MILG). Restrictions on safeguarding value Value protection clauses a...
Shrinkflation: Austrian Government Bill on Anti-Deceptive Packaging
Competition LawThe Austrian Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy and Tourism has introduced a government bill regarding legislation on misleading packaging. Under this new law, products whose quantity was reduced without a matching decrease in price must b...
Austrian Government Bill: Freedom of Information Act
Public LawThe obligation to maintain official secrecy has been explicitly enshrined in the Austrian Federal Constitution. A new government bill now aims to abolish official secrecy and increase government transparency. To this end, the Austrian Federal Constit...
OGH: Amendment of Terrorist Acts Bill
Criminal LawIn 2021, the European Commission criticised Austria's solution for implementing Directive (EU) 2017/541 (the Terrorism Directive) which deals with combatting terrorism. Consequently, new regulations for Section 287c of the Austrian Criminal Code (Str...
Austrian Registration Act: Amendments and Details
Public LawWith Government Bill 1252 of Supplements XXVII GP, the Austrian Registration Act (Meldegesetz, hereinafter MeldeG) hasundergone a fundamental change in substantive content. On the one hand, the right of intersexual persons to an adequate designation ...