May 2022

Superstructure goes online!

The Document Filing Act (Urkundenhinterlegungsgesetz), Federal Law Gazette 1974/326 as amended by Federal Law Gazette I No. 86/2021, contains regulations applicable to real estate, buildings and structures not recorded in the Austrian Land Register. Up until now, it has only been possible to obtain documents relating to such real estate by consulting the respective document collection at court in question; it was not possible to make an online query. This will now change.

Mandatory use of “Glass Gateway” clarified

A recently published amendment to Government Decree 707/2021 (XII.15.) regulating the use of the “Glass Gateway” provides more detailed definitions of the construction activities for which the use of the system is mandatory.