EdLaw
Austria — Bildungsdokumentationsgesetz 2020
Austria's education-documentation act — the dedicated statute governing student data: who is controller, which Evidenzen (registers) schools keep, and the central Datenverbund der Schulen. This is the Austrian sibling of FERPA/Poland's SIO/Bulgaria's НЕИСПУО, but with unusually explicit statutory data catalogues (the Anlagen).
Statute text is German (the authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- Roles are fixed by statute (§ 4): the Schulleiter/in is datenschutzrechtlich Verantwortliche/r for pupils' data at the school, and the responsibility split with the school authority and Schulerhalter over IT systems is spelled out — an Austrian school negotiating a platform contract works inside this allocation, not around it.
- The student registers (§ 5): schools keep automationsunterstützte Evidenzen of pupils with the data items enumerated by § 5 Abs. 1 and the Anlagen — the definitive catalogue of what pupil data lawfully exists at an Austrian school.
- Datenverbund der Schulen (§ 6): the nationwide school data network holding Personenstammdaten and Bildungsdaten, with statutory retention periods (Abs. 2: name/date-of-birth/e-mail/bPK seven school years after the last attendance, exam data three years, the rest one school year) and a post-attendance deletion right on request.
- Regelungszweck (§ 1): documentation for planning, statistics and research — processing beyond these purposes needs another basis.
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| EVIDENZEN.md | § 1 (Regelungszweck), § 4 (allgemeine datenschutzrechtliche Bestimmungen), § 5 (Evidenzen der Schülerinnen und Schüler), § 6 (Datenverbund der Schulen) |
Scope note: the Anlagen (per-register data catalogues) and the Gesamtevidenz/Bildungsstatistik provisions (§§ 7 ff.) are not extracted; add Anlage 1/3 if a field-level mapping question arises.
Enforcement
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung; data-protection supervision by the DSB.
Licence
The corpus reproduces selected provisions of the Bildungsdokumentationsgesetz 2020 in the consolidated version of the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS).
Austrian copyright law places statutes and ordinances outside copyright. § 7 Abs. 1 Urheberrechtsgesetz (RIS — UrhG § 7, read 2026-10-01 through the RIS open-data API, document NOR12024408) provides: "Gesetze, Verordnungen, amtliche Erlässe, Bekanntmachungen und Entscheidungen sowie ausschließlich oder vorwiegend zum amtlichen Gebrauch hergestellte amtliche Werke der im § 2 Z 1 oder 3 bezeichneten Art genießen keinen urheberrechtlichen Schutz."
Conditions: none attach to the statute text, because no copyright subsists in it. The corpus still identifies its source: each fact document names its source in its opening citation line and in its Meta section, and Sources here links the official text (RIS). The changes (the selection of provisions, the Markdown layout and the added anchors) are described in Meta. The corpus does not claim that the publisher endorses it, and only the officially promulgated text is authentic.
Related
- AT DSG — general regime (consent 14; public bodies unfineable)
- AT SchUG — the teaching activities feeding these registers
- US FERPA — the US sibling