Austria legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 2,126,453+ Austrian laws, regulations, court decisions and regulatory materials from Austrian government, judicial and regulatory institutions across 6 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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Austria legal records
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Which Austrian law implements the GDPR at national level?
The Datenschutzgesetz (DSG), BGBl. I Nr. 165/1999 — Austria's federal data protection act, held in the corpus as consolidated, provision-level versions from RIS (latest amendment on record: 2024-05-07).
Source: Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS) — ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/i/1999/165/A2P70/NOR40263015
Retrieved: 2026-08-02 · 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 (legislation and case law) · government services portal · data protection regulator · federal ministries · environment agency
- Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS) — ris.bka.gv.at
- oesterreich.gv.at — Austrian Government Portal
- Datenschutzbehörde (dsb.gv.at)
- Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus (bmwet.gv.at)
- Umweltbundesamt (umweltbundesamt.at)
- 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
Bundesverfassungsgesetze, Bundesgesetze, Verordnungen, and other instruments published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, taken directly from the consolidated federal law collection (Bundesnormen) in the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS).
Legislative History
Point-in-time consolidated versions and amendment records at provision level from RIS where available, version by version, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Erlässe and Rundschreiben (ministerial decrees and circulars) from federal ministries via RIS, together with materials from the Datenschutzbehörde, the Umweltbundesamt, and the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus.
Case Law
Court and tribunal decisions from official Austrian sources via RIS, including ECLI-identified judgments of courts such as the Bundesverwaltungsgericht (BVwG), 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, the official gazette, 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 and a federal republic. Federal legislation is promulgated in the Bundesgesetzblatt and consolidated in the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS) on ris.bka.gv.at, which also publishes decisions of Austrian courts and tribunals with ECLI identifiers, as well as ministerial Erlässe and Rundschreiben. Citizen- and business-facing guidance sits on oesterreich.gv.at, data protection supervision with the Datenschutzbehörde (dsb.gv.at), and environmental materials with the Umweltbundesamt, which also publishes in English. Records are published in German, with English-language versions of some portals.
Austrian law moves quickly: consolidated texts in RIS change continuously at provision level, courts publish a steady stream of decisions, and EU-derived rules — the GDPR alongside the Datenschutzgesetz (DSG) — 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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