UWG Section 1, General Unfair Commercial Practices Clause
UWG Sec. 1, BGBl. Nr. 448/1984
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In force since 20 July 2022.
An unfair competition rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not apply, in the course of trade, an unfair commercial practice or other unfair conduct capable of more than trivially disadvantaging a competing undertaking, per UWG Section 1.
What this law does
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Section 1 of the Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG) lets an injured party seek an injunction, and damages where the defendant is at fault, against anyone who, in the course of trade, applies an unfair commercial practice or other unfair conduct capable of more than trivially affecting competition to the disadvantage of undertakings, or a commercial practice contrary to professional diligence that is likely to materially distort the economic behavior of the average consumer it reaches.
Austria has no scraping-specific unfair-competition or misappropriation doctrine; this general clause is the only unfair-competition authority identified, and no reported Austrian judgment applying it to unauthorized data extraction or web scraping was located in the sources checked.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Austrian Federal Law Gazette (Rechtsinformationssystem, RIS), consolidated text of the UWG