What data is expected?
This data category requires all national laws and statutes available to be available online, although it is not a requirement that information on legislative behaviour e.g. voting records is available.
What data is available
- Does the data exist? Yes
- Is data in digital form? Yes
- Publicly available? Yes(as Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria published by Federal Chancellery)
- Is the data available for free? Yes
- Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
- Is the data machine readable? Yes (HTML, PDF, DOC, asmx, wsdl, xsd)
- Available in bulk? Yes
- Openly licensed? Yes(Here)
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? No
Details
Federal laws, regional laws, some regulation issued by municipalities, decisions of several regulators and governmental agencies and decisions of high-level courts are available at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at in HTML, PDF and Word format.
Aggregate data for bulk download of all federal law is made available through the government's open data portal: RIS - Bundesrecht konsolidiert. However, this archive is now several months behind the latest laws available on the RIS website, which is under Copyright and charges fees on some data extracts.
Contributors
Reviewers
- Robert Harm
- Daniela Mattern
- Lieke Ploeger
Submitters
- Robert Harm
- Oleg Lavrovsky
- Mathias Huter