What Austria Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb 1984 (UWG, BGBl. Nr. 448/1984) requires
The Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb (UWG, BGBl. Nr. 448/1984 idgF) is Austria's principal unfair competition statute, transposing EU Directive 2005/29/EC Unfair Commercial Practices (UCPD) for B2C, EU Directive 2006/114/EC misleading and comparative advertising for B2B, and EU Omnibus Directive 2019/2161/EU (transposed by BGBl. I Nr. 110/2022). The Act is organised in three Abschnitte (I. Civil and Criminal Provisions; II. Administrative Provisions; III. Common and Final Provisions). Key sections: § 1 (Generalklausel - general prohibition of geschaftliche Handlungen contrary to den anstandigen Markt-Gepflogenheiten or contrary to the requirements of professional diligence and materially distorting the economic behaviour of the average consumer); § 1a (aggressive Geschaftspraktiken - harassment, coercion, undue influence); § 2 (irrefuhrende Geschaftspraktiken - misleading commercial practices including misleading actions and misleading omissions); § 2a (vergleichende Werbung - comparative advertising under conditions including objective comparison, no denigration, no exploitation of reputation); § 7 (herabsetzende Geschaftspraktiken - business disparagement and untrue factual assertions); § 9 (Missbrauch von Kennzeichen - imitation and passing-off); § 14 (Aktivlegitimation - active legitimation for Mitbewerber, Vereine zur Forderung wirtschaftlicher Interessen, Bundesarbeitskammer BAK, Wirtschaftskammer WKO, Verein fur Konsumenteninformation VKI and Schutzverband gegen unlauteren Wettbewerb); § 15 (Unterlassungs- und Beseitigungsanspruch); § 16 (Schadenersatz); § 16a (Gewinnabschopfung - skimming of profits); § 28a et seq. (criminal sanctions); Anhang (blacklist of 31 commercial practices always considered unfair, transposing the UCPD Annex I).
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Primary source: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10002665
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- Bundesgesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb 1984 (UWG), § 1 - Generalklausel
- UWG, § 1a - Aggressive Geschaftspraktiken
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