After some last-minute amendments, the new Austrian Data Protection Act,

implementing and supplementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation, was

finally adopted by the Austrian Parliament on 30 June 2017. The new provisions

provide for some local specialties that must be considered by all companies

active in Austria. All changes become applicable from May 2018 but the new

obligations require complex internal amendments that should be reflected in the

course of the GDRP implementation to avoid the increased penalties. [read more here]

Authors: Axel Anderl, Felix Hörlsberger, Nino Tlapak, Dominik Schelling