Austria legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 2,652,781+ Austrian laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from Austrian government, judicial and regulatory institutions across 8 official portals. Search Austrian legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which Austrian law governs data protection alongside the EU GDPR?
The Datenschutzgesetz (DSG) — Austria's federal Data Protection Act (BGBl. I No. 165/1999, as amended) — which accompanies the GDPR at national level, in the consolidated federal-law version effective from 25 May 2018.
Source: Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS) — ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/i/1999/165
Retrieved: 2026-10-05 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Austrian sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Austrian legal materials from official government, parliamentary, court, and regulator sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: the federal legal information system and official gazette · government and ministry portals · financial, data-protection and environmental regulators · the courts
- Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS) — ris.bka.gv.at
- oesterreich.gv.at — Austrian Government Portal
- Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA)
- Datenschutzbehörde (DSB)
- Umweltbundesamt / Environment Agency Austria
- Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus
- Environment Agency Austria (English portal)
Austrian legal source types covered
Austrian legal coverage includes primary legislation, secondary legislation, regulatory materials, court decisions, guidance, enforcement documents, and legislative history where available.
Legislation & Regulations
Bundesgesetze, Verordnungen, and consolidated federal law (Bundesrecht) such as the ABGB, StGB, UGB and the Datenschutzgesetz, taken directly from the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS) and the official gazette, the Bundesgesetzblatt (BGBl).
Legislative History
Government bills (Regierungsvorlagen), parliamentary materials, and amendment records from the Nationalrat and Bundesrat where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Guidelines, decisions, circulars, and enforcement materials from Austrian regulators such as the Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA), the Datenschutzbehörde (DSB), and the Umweltbundesamt.
Case Law
Court decisions from official Austrian sources, including the Verfassungsgerichtshof (VfGH), the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (VwGH), and the Oberster Gerichtshof (OGH), published through the RIS, where available.
One Austrian legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Austrian laws, regulations, court decisions, regulatory guidance, and enforcement materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=AT&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Austrian legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Austrian materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Austrian legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Austrian legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Austrian legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Austrian legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Austrian law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Austrian sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Austrian legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Austrian legal research
Austrian legal information is spread across the federal legal information system (RIS), the official gazette, parliament, ministries, regulators, and the courts. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Austria legal coverage
Austria is a civil-law jurisdiction with a federal structure of nine Bundesländer. Consolidated federal law (Bundesrecht) and the official gazette, the Bundesgesetzblatt (BGBl), are published through the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS) at ris.bka.gv.at — the authoritative government legal information system. Legislation originates in the Nationalrat and Bundesrat, and case law is published in the RIS, including decisions of the Verfassungsgerichtshof (VfGH), the Verwaltungsgerichtshof (VwGH), and the Oberster Gerichtshof (OGH). Regulatory guidance sits with bodies such as the Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA), the Datenschutzbehörde (DSB), and the Umweltbundesamt. Records are published in German, with English-language versions of several regulator portals.
Austrian law moves quickly: consolidated texts in the RIS change as amendments are gazetted in the Bundesgesetzblatt, regulators publish a steady stream of guidance and decisions, and EU-derived rules — the GDPR alongside the Datenschutzgesetz — keep evolving. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps an Austrian legal research answer correct today.
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Legaltech companies
Build Austrian legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Austrian regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Austrian legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Austrian legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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