Does Austrian Aviation Law Comply With The New EU Rules For Drones?

I Introduction

Drones (coll.; "unmanned aircraft [systems or vehicles]" in technical terms) are aircraft operated with no pilot on board. Once mainly developed and used for military purposes, drones are increasingly influencing our everyday lives.¹ Drones vary greatly in size, performance and type.²  Civil drones are operated for risky flights to accident areas (e.g. firefighting, overflying flooded areas, finding missing persons³), can assist authorities⁴  (e.g. border control), deliver commercial services such as infrastructure (e.g. bridges, railways, nuclear plants) maintenance and monitoring, aerial mapping⁵ (e.g. for construction planning, insurance, urban planning), filming⁶ (see " Can flying photo drones be shot down?"), farming⁷, forestry, fisheries or may deliver packages⁸. In fact, taxi drones⁹ may turn out to be a landmark in drone operations (see " Taxi drone EHang 216 takes off in Austria"). Considering that unmanned aerial toys will increasingly