Austria: Compliance

With the Eurozone's economic landscape showing signs of strain, lenders are urged to prioritise their collections operations. The combination of a maturing credit cycle, rising living costs.

2023 began with further compliance challenges. Large German companies must adhere to the due diligence requirements of the new German Supply Chain Act, which aims to foster human rights and environmental standards.

The revision of the NIS Directive (EU) 2016/1148 ("NIS 1") was published on 27 December 2022 in the form of Directive (EU) 2022/2555 ("NIS 2") and entered...

Management teams have found themselves confronted by a whole new world of perilous risks since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Es zeigt sich in der Praxis, dass die gesetzlichen Sorgfaltspflichten in Zusammenhang mit dem Wirtschaftliche Eigentümer-Registergesetz ("WiEReG") und die dementsprechenden Compliance-Maßnahmen...

Um die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte und Umweltstandards auch in fernen Ländern zu gewährleisten, wurde das deutsche Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz beschlossen.

On 31 January 2012, the Financial Market Authority (FMA) amended the compliance regulation (Amendment to the Emittenten-Compliance-Verordnung 2007, ECV 2007) introducing the concept of „compliance-relevant information".

The plaintiff in Case 1 Ob 38/03z -a banking corporation under Egyptian law with a Jordanian branch (the issuing bank)- has a long-standing business relationship with a Jordanian company. This Jordanian company ordered sanitary equipment from an Austrian company.

Austrian law expressly recognises and protects a bank's duty of confidentiality (sometimes referred to as 'bank secrecy') with respect to information received by or relating to its customers. This duty is primarily governed by s 38(1) to (4) (scope and exceptions) and s 101 (criminal liability) of the Banking Act (BWG) and supplemented by several provisions of a procedural nature such as the Revenues Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code.