Chambers Public & Administrative Law 2025

​The Chambers Public & Administrative Law Global Practice Guide 2025 offers up-to-date legal insights into the judicial review of public law decisions across over a dozen jurisdictions. It covers the available forums for review, criteria for determining whether a decision can be challenged, and examines how the nature of both the decision and the decision-maker influences this process. Additionally, it outlines the grounds for judicial review, potential legislative or contractual limitations, and addresses key procedural considerations. The jurisdiction guides also contain cutting-edge insights into latest developments and trends from a legal perspective.

Schoenherr experts Bernd Rajal, Maximilian Klein and Moritz Üblagger contributed the Austrian chapter of the 2025 Guide, diving into Austria's legal landscape. Their contribution covers key topics, such as jurisdiction, the target and nature of the decision and the decision-makers, ouster, standing, involvement of other parties, evidence, time limits and preliminary procedures, grounds for challenge, defence, interim relief, remedies, costs and appeals.

They further provide an overview of the latest trends and developments in Austria from a regulatory perspective, including:

• large battery storage systems,
• green public procurement,
• power purchase agreements,
• the regulations and market potential of Austria’s defence sector,
• networks of electricity charging stations,
• the stability tax increase,
• energy communities,
• harnessing AI in public administration,
• hydrogen,
• the end of the CCS Ban,
• spatial energy planning,
• climate protection in permitting procedures,
• the Renewable Gas Act,
• efficient waste management,
• the New Energy Law, as well as
• current case law.

Explore the full chapter here.

authors: Bernd Rajal, Maximilian Klein, Moritz Üblagger