Name of the Act/s

Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Unternehmensgesetzbuch, das Alternative Investmentfonds Manager-Gesetz, das Bankwesengesetz, das Einlagensicherungs- und Anlegerentschädigungsgesetz, das Börsegesetz 2018, das Immobilien-Investmentfondsgesetz, das Investmentfondsgesetz 2011, das Versicherungsaufsichtsgesetz 2016, das Wirtschaftstreuhandberufsgesetz 2017, das Bilanzbuchhaltungsgesetz 2014 und das Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz 2002 geändert werden (Anti-Gold-Plating-Gesetz 2019)

BGBl I Nr. 46/2019

Date

28^th of May 2019

Type of Act

Federal Law

Enacted by

National Council

Reference to the Constitution (FCL) (art.)

Art. 10 para. 1 Z 6 FCL; Art. 10 para 1 Z 5 FCL; Art. 10 para 1 Z 8 FCL; Art. 10 para 1 Z 11 FCL; Art. 10 para 1 Z 12 FCL

Subject area

Deregulation

If the act implements a source of EU Law: cite the relevant EU legal source

Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings, amending Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC; Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings, amending Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC; Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II); Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directive 2006/70/EC; Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste

Comment

Eliminates rules which have over fulfilled European Union directives (so called gold plating) in the banking, financial, accounting, insurance and environmental sector

Secondary sources/ doctrinal works (if any)

Available Text

https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/I/2019/46/20190528

Date of entry into force

29^th of May 2019

Name of the Act/s

Brexit-Begleitgesetz 2019 – BreBeG 2019

Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Beamten-Dienstrechtsgesetz 1979, das Vertragsbedienstetengesetz 1948, das Landeslehrer-Dienstrechtsgesetz, das Landesvertragslehrpersonengesetz 1966, das Land- und forstwirtschaftliche Landeslehrer-Dienstrechtsgesetz, das Land- und forstwirtschaftliche Landesvertragslehrpersonengesetz, das Ausländerbeschäftigungsgesetz, das Studienförderungsgesetz 1992, das Betriebliche Mitarbeiter- und Selbständigenvorsorgegesetz, das Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz, das Integrationsgesetz, die Rechtsanwaltsordnung, das EIRAG und das Marktordnungsgesetz 2007 geändert werden sowie ein Bundesgesetz zur kollisionsrechtlichen Beurteilung von im Vereinigten Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland registrierten Gesellschaften mit Verwaltungssitz in Österreich erlassen wird

BGBl I 25/2019

Date of publication

25.03.2019

Type of Act

(name in English / in the official language)

Federal Law

Enacted by

Reference to the Constitution (FCL) (art.)

Art. 10 para 1 n 3, 5, 6, 16 Federal Constitutional Law; Art. 11 Federal Constitutional Law; Art. 14 para 1 and 2 Federal Constitutional Law; Art. 14a para 3 lit. b Federal Constitutional Law

Subject area

Brexit

If the act implements a source of EU Law: cite the relevant EU legal source

Art. 50 para 2 Treaty on the European Union

Comment

By modifying various acts, the law aims at regulating the effects of a Brexit without Withdrawal Agreement on UK Citizens in Austria; in particular, the law aims at maintaining the principal effects of the fundamental freedom of free movement of workers for UK citizen already working in Austria (for example as teachers) for a transitional period before obtaining a so called Rot-Weiß-Rot-Karte plus.

Secondary sources/ doctrinal works (if any)

Available Text

https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/I/2019/25/20190325

Date of entry into force

In accordance with a communication by the Federal Chancellor (article 16 BreBeG 2019)

Name of the Act/s

Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz, das Übergangsgesetz vom 1. Oktober 1920, in der Fassung des B. G. Bl. Nr. 368 vom Jahre 1925, das Bundesverfassungsgesetz betreffend Grundsätze für die Einrichtung und Geschäftsführung der Ämter der Landesregierungen außer Wien, das Bundesforstegesetz 1996, das Datenschutzgesetz, das Bundesgesetzblattgesetz, das Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz und das Bundesgesetz über die Europäische Ermittlungsanordnung in Verwaltungsstrafsachen geändert werden

BGBl I 14/2019

Date of publication

15.01.2019

Type of Act

(name in English / in the official language)

Federal Constitutional Law

Enacted by

Reference to the Constitution (FCL) (art.)

Art 10 para 1 Z 1 and Article 150 para 2 Federal   Constitutional Law

Subject area

Distribution of powers between Federation and Länder

If the act implements a source of EU Law: cite the relevant EU legal source

Comment

According to the Government’s programme 2017 -2020, the Act reduces the cases of consensus requested for the exercise of powers by the Länder and by the Federation and aims at simplifying the distribution of powers laid down in the articles 10 to 15 of the Federal Constitutional Law. In particular, article 12 Federal Constitutional Law, listing the subject areas whereas the Federation adopts framework laws and the Länder implementing laws is abolished and the various powers integrated into the remaining articles 10 to 15 Federal Constitutional Law.

Secondary sources/ doctrinal works (if any)

Available Text

https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/I/2019/14/20190115

Date of entry into force

various

Date

28^th of February 2019

Type of Act

(name in English / in the official language)

Decision of the Constitutional Court, G319/2018 ua

Enacted by

Constitutional Court

Reference to the Constitution (art.)

Art 3 Protocol No 1 to the ECHR

Subject area

Electoral law

If the act implements a source of EU Law: cite the relevant EU legal source

Comment

In a decision on the exclusion from the right to vote, the Constitutional Court followed its case-law, according to which it already considers the older legal situation for convicted persons on the basis of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice to lie within the (wide) scope of discretion of the legislator in the case of restrictions of the right to vote.

The Constitutional Court sees no reason to depart from this ruling. The considerations made in this decision on the constitutional conformity of the automatic exclusion from the right to vote apply all the more to the newer provisions for convicted persons. These provide for the exclusion from the right to vote only in the case of an individual court decision, which is to be imposed as an ancillary penalty within the framework of the sentencing. Therefore the Court does not find a violation of Art. 3 of Protocol No 1 to the ECHR.

Secondary sources/ doctrinal works (if any)

Available Text

https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokument.wxe?Abfrage=Vfgh&Dokumentnummer=JFT_20190228_18G00319_00

Date of entry into force