Catering trade - changes of opening and closing hours
Short description
General information
Basically, the provincial governor stipulates any opening and closing hours for the individual types of catering establishments by way of decree. The competent authority may, however, grant any earlier opening hours, or later closing hours, respectively, upon application.
Please note
Certain limitations may apply depending on certain conditions.
Competent authority
Additional information
- The municipality German text which the catering establishment is located in
Please note
If the closing and opening hours in any further business establishment are concerned, applications must be submitted to the competent municipality.
Procedure
Applications can be made in person, in writing, or also electronically. The municipality makes the relevant decision with any other public interests in mind.
Please note
Licences are not granted if the neighbourhood has been unreasonably molested repeatedly by any non-punishable behaviour of guests outside the premises of the catering establishment, or if the landladies/landlords of any catering establishment have been repeatedly sentenced by a court of law for violating orders concerning opening and closing hours.
Last-resort municipality decrees are subject to appeal to the Federal Administrative Court.
Costs
There are no stamp duties and federal administration fees (section 333a of the Gewerbeordnung ).
Data protection
I have noted that the data provided by me, as well as any data received by the administration over the course of the preliminary investigation, will be automatically processed as per article 6, para. 1 lit. c and e of the General Data Protection Regulation in accordance with the underlying material laws of the legal process. Furthermore, I am aware that this is for the purpose of executing the legal procedure initiated by me, the granting of regulatory approval and also for the purpose of review. I have read the general information regarding:
- the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, withdrawal and objection, as well as on data portability
- the right to lodge a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority
- the responsibilities of the process controller and the data protection officer as per https://datenschutz.stmk.gv.at.