Litigation 2026

AUSTRIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Bettina Knoetzl, Katrin Hanschitz, Kirstin McGoldrick and Natascha Tunkel, KNOETZL

mented in 2024 are only slowly making their way to the Austrian courts, a wave of injunction actions were filed in summer and autumn 2025 focusing on data pro- tection, unfair competition practices/advertising and incorrect disclosure of price discounts for consumer goods. Other qualified entities have announced claims for injunctions and/or damages relating to bank fees, investments in insurance products, unlawful price increases for electricity and gas, cybercrime and data protection issues.

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