Bundeskanzleramt (Austrian Federal Chancellery)

The Bundeskanzleramt (Federal Chancellery) is the Austrian government body responsible for publishing official legal information. It operates RIS (Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes), Austria's federal legal information system, with a public web presence since 1998.

Databases from Bundeskanzleramt (Austrian Federal Chancellery)

RIS — Rechtsinformationssystem

FreeAustria

Austria's official federal legal database, accessed through the RIS Open Government Data API — public and keyless, no registration required. Covers consolidated federal legislation (Bundesrecht) and legislation from all nine Austrian provinces (Landesrecht), plus case law from the Constitutional Court (Verfassungsgerichtshof), the Administrative Supreme Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof), and the ordinary courts, across 11 court types. An MCP server (ris-mcp-ts) exposes 13 tools for Claude and other MCP clients: full-text statute retrieval by RIS document number, keyword/paragraph/date search across federal and state law, and case-law lookup that can return either a decision's headnote (Rechtssatz) or its full text (Entscheidungstext). It also reaches gazettes, government bills, and municipal law. Public access is rate-limited to roughly one request every two seconds, which is fine for normal research queries; bulk retrieval is restricted to off-peak hours and requires notifying the RIS operator in advance.

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