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01/01/2018
Winning together
Procurement law creates fair competition by forcing companies in the public sector to ensure that public works, public supply and public service contracts are procured competitively. The commercial importance...
16/12/2015
Different Demand and New Legal Framework for Infrastructure PPPs in Austria
Whereas Public Private Partnerships in Austrian infrastructure projects have been a rare species for many years, interest on the public side has risen significantly. At the same time, the new EU Concession...
10/12/2015
Tenfold increase in financial penalties: Gentle pressure to come to a settlement?
The Spar combine was ordered in the first instance to pay a financial penalty of 3 million euros by the Supreme Court - proceedings regarding a further 16 product groups are to follow. Full article in...
16/05/2015
Deposit protection new: a safety net with gaps, or no safety net at all?
The banking and financial crisis has once again demonstrated how dangerous a run on the banks can be. A banking run occurs when many banking customers remove their deposits at the same time and the banks...
15/05/2015
GewO 1994-Novellen 2015
The Amendment to the Commercial Regulation Act (Federal Law Gazette I 18/2015) came into force on the 27th of March 2015. The commercial register system has been fundamentally reformed by this amendment...
14/05/2015
Ministerial draft of the Amendment to the Federal Procurement Act 2015
The draft of the planned Amendment to the Federal Procurement Act 2015 was dispatched on the 10th of April 2015, with the deadline for comments to be submitted being 8th of May 2015. The amendment has...
09/02/2015
No effective legal protection against the order to have managers dismissed?
In 2010, the Austrian Fin­an­cial Mar­kets Authorities issued a credit institute with the order to dismiss a manager on the grounds of insufficient personal reliability, or face paying a fine. The credit...
19/11/2009
Update Public Procurement Law (in German)
Zur Ankurbelung der Wirtschaft in der Krise wurden die Schwellenwerte im Un­ter­schwel­len­bereich zeitlich befristet angehoben und wurde der Zugang zu beschleunigten Verfahren erleichtert. Noch im Jahr 2009...
01/06/2006
Austrian federal law on public procurement 2006
Mit 1.2.2006 ist das Bundes­ver­gabege­setz 2006 in Kraft getreten. Den unmittelbaren Anlass für ein neues Gesetz lieferte einmal mehr der Ge­meinsch­afts­ge­set­zge­ber, dessen Richtlinienpaket umzusetzen war...