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Austria’s administration apparatus is divided by competences between federal and provincial administration. Legal remedies against decisions in matters of federal administration fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Administrative Court.

• The Federal Administrative Court is responsible for complaints against decisions by public authorities in matters of direct federal administration.
• These matters are in summary: Asylum and foreign matters, personal rights and education (e.g. data protection), social affairs (e.g. unemployment pay), commerce, communication, transport and environment (e.g. measurement of a land plot).
• Matters in financial law are also such of federal administration but a separate court is in competence here, the Federal Finance Court.


• The Federal Administrative Court currently consists of 220 judges and is seated in Vienna.


• Next to the federal administration with the Federal Administrative Court there is the provincial administration with nine Provincial Administrative Courts (one for each state).
• These nine courts are responsible for all matters that are not explicitly in the hands of the federal administration. We call that a general clause in favour of the federal states (“Generalklausel zugunsten der Länder”).

• Some specially selected decisions are published directly on the court’s website, with a hyperlink to the RIS database.
• In the RIS database all decisions of the Federal Administrative Court since its beginning in 2014 are available.
• The database provides additional information like the date of the decision, concerned law, the ECLI and keywords for an efficient search.

• All documents are available in PDF-, html- and Word-format for print and download.
• The documents are only available in German.