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Gewerbeordnung

Gewerbeordnung 1994, BGBl. Nr. 194/1994, zuletzt geändert durch BGBl. I Nr. 66/2025 · Austria · Binding instrument

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This toolkit organises the Gewerbeordnung 1994 into 56 working files, turning the statutory duties on trade and industry into open questions a business answers from its own records.

The Gewerbeordnung 1994 governs businesses that carry on a trade in Austria, including sole traders and companies, employers, operators of event venues and accommodation, waste producers and waste collectors, operators of installations requiring a permit, travel organisers, and providers of security services. It sets the conditions for taking up and exercising a trade, the notification and authorisation duties that apply, and the obligations that continue once the business is running.

The 56 working files follow the instrument by subject. They cover the requirements for taking up a trade and the residence and authorisation conditions, the notification and declaration duties, the rules on business names and designations, the law on installations including permits, safety management systems and closure, the duties on record keeping and supervision, data protection, insurance, and the procedural rules that apply before the authority.

Each working file sets out the obligations as open questions the business answers from its own records, with the statutory text carried verbatim beside each duty. The sections are served through a connector inside Claude, so nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed. The documents that come back are dated compliance reports the business keeps in its own file.

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Which businesses does the Gewerbeordnung 1994 concern?

It concerns businesses that carry on a trade in Austria, including sole traders and companies, employers, operators of event venues and accommodation, waste producers and collectors, operators of installations requiring a permit, travel organisers, and security service providers. It governs how a trade is taken up, how it is exercised, and which duties continue while it is running.

What does the toolkit contain?

It is a set of 56 working files that organise the obligations of this one instrument by subject. Each file turns the duties into open questions a business answers from its own records, with the statutory text carried verbatim beside each duty.

How are the sections delivered?

The sections are served through a connector inside Claude. Nothing is downloaded and nothing is installed, and the business works through the questions in the same environment.

What do I receive at the end of the questions?

The documents that come back are dated compliance reports. The business keeps them in its own file and can use them as a record of the answers it gave from its own records.

Does the toolkit tell me whether my business is compliant?

No. The toolkit never gives advice and never presents a perspective. It carries what the authority wrote, organised as open questions, and the business answers them from its own records.

Which subjects do the working files cover?

They cover the requirements for taking up a trade, residence and authorisation conditions, notification and declaration duties, business names and designations, the law on installations including permits and closure, record keeping and supervision, data protection, insurance, and procedural rules. Each file addresses one of these subjects.

Does the toolkit reproduce the wording of the law?

Yes. The statutory text is carried verbatim beside each duty, so the business reads the provision as the authority wrote it. The questions around it organise what the business must answer from its own records.

Is the toolkit legal advice?

No. It gives no advice and presents no perspective. It organises the obligations of the Gewerbeordnung 1994 into open questions and carries the statutory text, leaving the assessment to the business and its advisers.

Which version of the law does the toolkit use?

It uses the Gewerbeordnung 1994, BGBl. Nr. 194/1994, as last amended by BGBl. I Nr. 66/2025. The statutory text beside each duty is taken from that version.

Can the toolkit be used by a business that operates installations requiring a permit?

Yes. The working files include the law on installations, covering permits, safety management systems, information duties, and closure. The business answers the open questions from its own records, and the statutory text sits beside each duty.

Datenquelle: RIS, Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes, CC BY 4.0. Official reference: Gewerbeordnung 1994, BGBl. Nr. 194/1994, zuletzt geändert durch BGBl. I Nr. 66/2025.

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