Litigation & Dispute Resolution 2018

I. LITIGATION

1 Preliminaries

1.1 What type of legal system has your jurisdiction got? Are there any rules that govern civil procedure in your jurisdiction?

Austria is a civil law country; thus, laws are codified into collections. Civil procedural rules are contained in various acts such as:

• the Austrian Jurisdiction Act ("Jurisdiktionsnorm", AJA), regulating the organisation and jurisdiction of courts;
• the Austrian Code of Civil Procedure ("Zivilprozessordnung", ACCP), governing the contentious proceedings in civil courts; and
• the Austrian Enforcement Code ("Exekutionsordnung", AEC), determining the enforcement of judgments (as well as arbitral awards and preliminary remedies).