Austria
[AT] Government Bills on Distance Marketing and Electronic Signatures before Parliament
IRIS 1999-7:1/25
Albrecht Haller
IFPI Austria
In mid-June the Council of Ministers decided to propose bills on distance marketing and electronic signatures; both texts are now before Parliament.
Neither of these government bills contains any great surprises: the future law on distance marketing transposes the EC's Directives on distance contracts and injunctions; the law on electronic signatures will transpose the EU's anticipated Directive on electronic signatures.
References
- Regierungsvorlage betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem Bestimmungen über den Vertragsabschluß im Fernabsatz in das Konsumentenschutzgesetz eingefügt und das Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb 1984 sowie das Produkthaftungsgesetz geändert werden (Fernabsatz-Gesetz).
- http://www.parlinkom.gv.at/pd/pm/XX/I/his/019/I01998_.html
- Government bill concerning a Federal Law to incorporate provisions on distance contracts into the Consumer Protection Act and to amend the 1984 Federal Law on Unfair Competition and the Law on Product Liability (Distance Marketing Act Fernabsatz-Gesetz).
- Regierungsvorlage betreffend ein Bundesgesetz über elektronische Signaturen (Signaturgesetz - SigG).
- http://www.parlinkom.gv.at/pd/pm/XX/I/his/019/I01999_.html
- Government bill concerning a Federal Law on electronic signatures (Signaturgesetz SigG).
This article has been published in IRIS Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory.