Country	AUSTRIA
RTI law score	32/150 – see also the legal analysis section
What were we looking for?	Information regarding constitutional amendment FOI law, reform of copyright act, amendment to tobacco law, tax reform and police state protection act.
We found proactively published…	0,0% of information
We managed to get via FOI requests…	27,5% of information
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MAIN FINDINGS

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There is no access to minutes of meetings in practice, minutes of meetings are either not kept or access is denied.

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There is a lack of information justifying why a decision was taken.

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It took an average of 59 days to get responses, the median number of days being 61.

	Appointments diaries of public officials	Minutes of meetings (including meetings within government or between government and outside interests)	Document justifying the particular decision taken	Documents submitted by lobbyists and external interest groups	Documents submitted to a public consultation (if held)
Constitutional Amendment Freedom of Information Law
Award of honorary titles and awards; appointment of top-level civil servants; signing laws into force					NOT HELD
Amendment of the Pesticides Act (2013)					NOT HELD
Amendment to the Tobacco Act (2015)
Reform of Copyright Act (2014)					NOT HELD

Table key:

Information partially published or not clear
Information not proactivelly published
NOT HELD Cases in which public consultation was not held

	List of meetings	Dates of meetings	Minutes of meetings	Third-party documents (including correspondence)	Public officials in charge	Public officials names	Name of companies	Name of lobbyists
Constitutional Amendment Freedom of Information Law
Reform of Copyright Act (2014)
Amendment to the Tobacco Act (2015)
Police State Protection Act
Tax Reform (2015)

Table key:

Information disclosed
Information denied
Information not held