Data Protection Notice

Below you will find information in accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the processing of your personal data. 

National Council, Federal Council, and Parliamentary Administration

The National Council and the Federal Council are the legislative bodies of the Republic of Austria at the federal level. Elected mandataries, employees of the Members of Parliament and the parliamentary groups as well as of the Parliamentary Administration work here.

The Parliamentary Administration reports to the President of the National Council as an administrative body bound by instructions. The Parliamentary Administration is, therefore, not an independent authority. It has two areas of responsibility:

  • Support for parliamentary tasks (government function legislation)
  • Dealing with matters of parliamentary administration (state function administration)

Depending on the data processing in question, various legal bases come into consideration.

Overview

The Parliament’s web presence

  • Cookies and Serverlogs
  • Registration on the website
  • Registration for media representatives
  • Social Media

Parliamentary Procedure

  • Popular initiatives
  • Citizens' initiatives
  • Other subjects of negotiation
  • Hearing of respondents and experts

Parliamentary Scrutiny

  • Parliamentary questions and responses 
  • Investigating committees

Opportunities for participation (taking a stand and providing support)

  • Statement as a private individual
  • Statement as a representative of an institution or organization 
  • Support for citizens

Experience – Parliament visits

  • Access to Parliament Buildings
  • Registration for public guided tours
  • Booking of individual guided tours for groups
  • Registration for events
  • Registration of media representatives for public media events
  • Image and sound recordings at and transcripts of events
  • Use of the Parliamentary Library
  • Use of the Parliamentary Archives
  • Video surveillance

Communications with the Parliamentary Administration

  • General inquiries and requests (contact forms, Email or post)
  • Requests and/or motions
  • Newsletter
  • Registration for the invitation subscription (event database)
  • Applications
  • Possible future and actual contractors

Automated Decision-making

Your Rights as Data Subject

Controller and Data Protection Officer

Contact

The Parliament’s web presence

Cookies & Serverlogs

Registration on the website

Registration for Media Representatives

Social Media

The Parliamentary Administration takes the ongoing debate on data protection in the social networks very seriously. For the time being, it is yet to be finally clarified if and to what extent all networks are offering their services in conformity with European data protection rules.

We therefore explicitly underline that the services used by the Parliamentary Administration, i. e. X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube (Google services), TikTok, LinkedIn and Bluesky store the data of their users (e. g. personal information, IP address) and use them for commercial purposes in accordance with their privacy policy. The Parliamentary Administration has no influence on data collection and data usage by the social networks. It has no information whatsoever on where, for how long, and to what extent data are stored, if the networks comply with their obligations to delete data, if data evaluations are performed and linkages established, and to which third parties data are transmitted.

Parliamentary Procedure

Citizens' initiatives

Other subjects of negotiation

Hearing of respondents and experts

Parliamentary Scrutiny

Parliamentary questions and responses to questions

Investigating Committees

Opportunities for participation (taking a stand and providing support)

Statement as a private individual

Statement as a representative of an institution or organization

Support for citizens' initiatives, petitions, statements

Experience – Parliament visits

Access to Parliament Buildings

Registration for public guided tours

Booking of individual guided tours for groups

Registration for events

Registration of media representatives for public media events

Image and sound recordings at and transcripts of events

Use of the Parliamentary Library

Use of the Parliamentary Archives

Video surveillance

Communications with the Parliamentary Administration

Automated decision-making

There is no automated decision-making pursuant to Art. 22 GDPR.

Your rights as data subject

With regard to your personal data, you generally have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 15 to 21 GDPR). Special regulations apply to parliamentary documents (Sections 3b and 3c of the Information Regulation Act).

If the lawfulness of data processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal (Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR).

There is a right lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority (Sections 24 et seq. DSG), from January 1, 2025 with the Parliamentary Data Protection Committee (Sections 35a et seq. DSG).

Responsible persons and data protection officers

Data processing that takes place in order to fulfill the statutory duties of the National Council and the Federal Council, the mandataries and the functionaries of an investigating committee are the responsibility of the National Council or the Federal Council under data protection law (Section 3a para. 4 of the Information Regulation Act). This also includes the support of parliamentary tasks by the Parliamentary Administration. This concerns parliamentary procedure, parliamentary scrutiny, and opportunities for participation in parliamentary proceedings. The President of the National Council for the National Council (Section 14 para. 10 of the 1975 Rules of Procedure Act) and the President of the Federal Council for the Federal Council (Section 7 para. 11 of the Rules of Procedure of the Federal Council) decide on data protection requests from data subjects in these areas. They are each supported by the Parliamentary Administration as an auxiliary body.

The person responsible under data protection law for data processing in the area of parliamentary administration is the President of the National Council, to whom the Parliamentary Administration reports.

The Data Protection Team in Department 3.1 of the Parliamentary Administration is primarily available for data protection concerns. If you wish to assert your data protection rights, please attach suitable proof of identity. Please also use the options provided directly to exercise your rights, e.g. unsubscribe links, settings options in your profile, etc.