{"id":1176,"date":"2024-02-09T08:16:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T08:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viac.hofmann.solutions\/legal-background\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:01:25","slug":"legal-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/rules-and-tools-at-a-glance\/resources-at-a-glance\/legal-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;rgba(11,11,11,0.29)&#8221; background_image=&#8221;https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AdobeStock_119050777-scaled.jpeg&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_horizontal_offset=&#8221;0%&#8221; background_vertical_offset=&#8221;67%&#8221; background_blend=&#8221;darken&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; max_width=&#8221;935px&#8221; module_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;280px|auto||auto|false|false&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|45px||45px|false|false&#8221; locked=&#8221;off&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.24.3&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_text_color=&#8221;#0B0B0B&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; header_font=&#8221;|700|||||||&#8221; header_text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;|60px||60px|false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Legal Background<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px||0px|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; max_width=&#8221;1030px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;26px&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3>Code of Civil Procedure<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ZPO-Schiedsrecht-2014-dt-im-VIAC-Layout.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; German<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ZPO-Schiedsrecht-2014-en-im-VIAC-Layout.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; English<\/a><sup>*)<\/sup><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ZPO-Schiedsrecht-2014-ch-im-VIAC-Layout-20140325.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; Chinese<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ZPO-Schiedsrecht-2014-cz-20141201-mit-Deckblatt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; Czech<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ZPO-Schiedsrecht-2014-ru-20141201.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; Russian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>*)<\/sup>\u00a0The English\u00a0translation is based on Riegler\/Petsche\/Fremuth-Wolf\/Platte and Liebscher, Arbitration Law of Austria: Practice and Procedure, Juris Publ. 2007, Chapter 5,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arbitrationlaw.com\/books\/arbitration-law-austria-practice-and-procedure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/arbitrationlaw.com\/books\/arbitration-law-austria-practice-and-procedure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For an overview of the Austrian Arbitration Law please see an article by Manfred Heider and Alice Fremuth Wolf published in Global Legal Insights \u2013 International Arbitration (2nd edition) by Global Legal Group Ltd, London (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globallegalinsights.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.globallegalinsights.com<\/a>):<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GLI-Vienna-International-Arbitral-Centre.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Legal Insights &#8211; International Arbitration (Austria)<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Conventions<\/h3>\n<p>New York Convention 1958<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uncitral.un.org\/sites\/uncitral.un.org\/files\/media-documents\/uncitral\/en\/new-york-convention-e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wording of the convention<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uncitral.un.org\/en\/texts\/arbitration\/conventions\/foreign_arbitral_awards\/status2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of Contracting States<\/a><\/p>\n<p>European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (Geneva, 21 April 1961)<sup>*)<\/sup><br \/>Wording of the convention: <a href=\"https:\/\/treaties.un.org\/doc\/treaties\/2008\/01\/09\/xxii-2.en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations, Treaty Series , vol. 484, p. 349<\/a>.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/treaties.un.org\/Pages\/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&amp;mtdsg_no=XXII-2&amp;chapter=22&amp;clang=_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of Contracting States<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>*)<\/sup> In case of unclear or incomplete arbitral agreements the European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of 1961 (EC 1961) \u2013 to which Austria is a member \u2013 may provide a way out: The Convention generally applies to disputes arising from international trade and where the (effective) arbitration agreement was concluded between physical or legal persons having, when concluding the arbitration agreement, their habitual place of residence or their seat in different contracting states of the EC 1961. According to its Art IV para 5 and 6 the President of the competent Chamber of Commerce (in Austria: Dr Harald Mahrer, President of the AFEC) is entitled to decide upon the request of a party if the arbitration agreement does not specify whether the parties wanted ad hoc or institutional proceedings or he may determine the competent arbitral institution where no specific institution was clearly indicated in the agreement of the parties.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; header_font_size=&#8221;26px&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h2>Mediation Materials<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ris.bka.gv.at\/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&amp;Gesetzesnummer=20002753&amp;FassungVom=2025-10-09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Austrian) Act on Mediation in Civil Matters<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ris.bka.gv.at\/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&amp;Gesetzesnummer=20007234&amp;FassungVom=2025-10-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Austrian) EU Mediation Act<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/DE\/TXT\/?uri=CELEX:32008L0052#:~:text=Richtlinie%202008%2F52%2FEG%20des%20Europ%C3%A4ischen%20Parlaments%20und%20des%20Rates,NL%2C%20PL%2C%20PT%2C%20RO%2C%20SK%2C%20SL%2C%20FI%2C%20SV)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU Mediation Directive<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uncitral.un.org\/sites\/uncitral.un.org\/files\/singapore_convention_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Singapur Convention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal BackgroundCode of Civil Procedure Austrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; GermanAustrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; English*)Austrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; ChineseAustrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; CzechAustrian Arbitration Law 2013 &#8211; Russian *)\u00a0The English\u00a0translation is based on Riegler\/Petsche\/Fremuth-Wolf\/Platte and Liebscher, Arbitration Law of Austria: Practice and Procedure, Juris Publ. 2007, Chapter 5,\u00a0http:\/\/arbitrationlaw.com\/books\/arbitration-law-austria-practice-and-procedure. For an overview of the Austrian Arbitration Law please see an article by Manfred Heider and Alice Fremuth Wolf published in Global Legal Insights \u2013 International Arbitration (2nd edition) by Global Legal Group Ltd, London (http:\/\/www.globallegalinsights.com):Global Legal Insights &#8211; International Arbitration (Austria) Conventions New York Convention 1958Wording of the conventionList of Contracting States European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (Geneva, 21 April 1961)*)Wording of the convention: United Nations, Treaty Series , vol. 484, p. 349.List of Contracting States *) In case of unclear or incomplete arbitral agreements the European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration of 1961 (EC 1961) \u2013 to which Austria is a member \u2013 may provide a way out: The Convention generally applies to disputes arising from international trade and where the (effective) arbitration agreement was concluded between physical or legal persons having, when concluding the arbitration agreement, their habitual place of residence or their seat in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8214,"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1176\/revisions\/8214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viac.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}