New Threshold Values Ordinance 2025
New thresholds for direct awards – Johannes Hartlieb and Florian Krumbiegel summarize all the important information for you.
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Nature restoration update – more flexibility in the system of compensatory measures
Mario Laimgruber and Maurizio Stoisser summarize for you exactly how Austria is utilizing the EU’s flexibility in the renaturation regulation.
Watch your back – when AI has a say in employee evaluation
Markus Gaderer analyzes AI-supported employee evaluation: What is legally permissible and where the limits lie.
Legal clarifications strengthen the utilization of steel mill slags
Cornelia Lanser and Reka Kraszani analyze two groundbreaking findings on the utilization of slag from steel production.
Wilhelm Bergthaler’s dual role between legal practice and academia
In an interview with DIE PRESSE, Wilhelm Bergthaler explains what science and law have in common and how they differ.
Bank secrecy in the light of the Criminal Procedure Law Amendment Act 2024
Laura Baumgartner-Viechtbauer and Simon Scherzer provide insights into new regulations regarding seizure and confiscation.
Rightly healthy! Haslinger / Nagele in DIE MACHER
Thomas Riesz and Gisela Ernst talk to DIE MACHER about the 5 key moments on the way to founding the Life Sciences & Health Law practice group.
Forever chemicals (PFAS): here to stay
Johannes Hartlieb and Alexander Gimona shed light on the planned ban on perpetual chemicals.
Triple expertise in RdU and ZVG
From renewable energy to the Freedom of Information Act, our experts publish in the specialist journals RdU and ZVG.
International Cartoon Award announced for the second time
Together with the School of Disobedience, Haslinger / Nagele is organizing the Kaktus cartoon prize for the second time on the subject of “the solution”
Pooling of expertise – practice group Life Sciences & Health Care Law
With this practice group, we are responding to the constantly growing demands in one of the most dynamic and important sectors of our time.
Gender equality in law
Together with co-author Miriam Hufgard-Leitner, Gisela Ernst publishes a chapter in the groundbreaking work “Genderbias im Recht”.
OGH: No special private law in the energy supply sector
Johannes Hartlieb and Alexander Gimona analyze for you the Supreme Court decision that changes to electricity prices require a contractual basis.
70 years of tradition and innovation in Linz and 25 years in Vienna
Under the motto “Tradition celebrates innovation”, we looked back on our history together with our clients, employees and network partners.
Cross-border telemedicine before the ECJ – country-of-origin or country-of-destination principle?
Gisela Ernst and Dominique Korbel provide an overview of the legal classification of telemedicine at national and EU level.
Legal protection in the grid reserve – part 2
Emil Nigmatullin analyzes for you the recent decision of the Federal Administrative Court on the party status of plant operators in the regulatory authority’s selection approval procedure.
BBG 2025 draft – impacts on real estate transfer tax
Implementation of the announced loophole in the real estate transfer tax
Lease agreements and inflation: What to consider when agreeing indexation clauses
The courts are currently dealing intensively with the interpretation of value protection clauses in rental agreements, including the Supreme Court.
Merger control notification requirements – a question of the right timing?
Florian Krumbiegel provides an overview of the merger control notification requirements for the acquisition of innovative pharmaceutical companies.
CSDDD Light: less is more?
Johannes Hartlieb, Cornelia Lanser and Alexander Gimona provide an overview of the Omnibus Initiative, which aims to ease supply chain diligence obligations.
Barrier-free into the future: new obligations from 2025
Lisa-Martina Köberl and Fabian Blumberger provide an overview of the Accessibility Act, which comes into force on June 28, 2025.
Equal pay for equal work
Lisa-Martina Köberl and Fabian Blumberger provide an overview of pay transparency, which is becoming mandatory throughout Europe.
“No one can serve two masters” – why managing directors cannot also be data protection officers
Ilka Kuci gives an overview of the decision of the Austrian data protection authority regarding data protection officers.
Environmental procedures: limits and (mis)interpretations of EIA cumulative assessments
Two things are (supposedly) infinite: the universe and the projects to be accumulated in an EIA – or are they?
