EdLaw
Austria — SchUG §§ 14a, 70a (IKT-gestützter Unterricht, elektronische Kommunikation)
The two digital provisions of Austria's school instruction act (both inserted January 2021): the statutory definition and basis for ICT-supported teaching, and the electronic-communication regime including its data-processing basis.
Statute text is German (the authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- § 14a defines our category: digitale Endgeräte (Abs. 1) and IKT-gestützter Unterricht — teaching using digital devices and digital learning and working platforms (Abs. 2). The minister may set technical requirements for devices and platforms by Verordnung (Abs. 3) — the hook under which platform requirements for Austrian classrooms can be imposed; watch for Verordnungen issued on it (the Digitale-Endgeräte-Verordnungen under the SchDigiG device rollout sit alongside).
- § 70a is the data basis for school communication: Abs. 4 expressly permits school administration, school heads and teachers to process private contact data of pupils and guardians for communication, teaching (including individual learning support), assessment and grading — the provision an Austrian school points to when using a platform's messaging/assessment features. Conferences may be held and resolved electronically (Abs. 1–3).
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| IKT-UNTERRICHT.md | § 14a (IKT-gestützter Unterricht), § 70a (Elektronische Kommunikation) in full |
Scope note: SchOG (Schulorganisationsgesetz) carries no comparable digital/data provisions — organisational law only; nothing extracted. The device-rollout act (Schuldigitalisierungsgesetz, SchDigiG) can be added if a hardware-programme question arises.
Enforcement
Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung; Bildungsdirektionen at Land level.
Licence
The corpus reproduces selected provisions of the Schulunterrichtsgesetz 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 BilDokG 2020 — the school-data registers behind these activities
- AT DSG — consent age 14, public bodies unfineable
- BG ЗПУО, PL Prawo oświatowe — sibling remote/digital teaching bases