Legal Changes🇦🇹

Plain-language summaries of changes to Austrian federal law. Generated with AI, updated within hours of each official publication.

Last week in Austrian law

  • Austria's manufacturer repair duty under the Consumer Protection Act now obliges producers of certain goods to repair them on consumer request from October 2026.
  • A new Austrian HealthCERT has been established in the Health Telematics Act, requiring health-sector facilities to report cybersecurity incidents to a dedicated specialist response team.
  • The consolidated Austrian version of the ILO Constitution has been updated to include historical versions of Article 7 and a new Article 19(9) allowing withdrawal of obsolete conventions by a two-thirds majority.
  • Austria's Victims' Welfare Act amendment extends the analogous application of § 90a of the War Victims' Benefits Act to recognised victims of Nazi and political persecution from 1 September 2026.

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