Austrian Accreditation Council
The Austrian Accreditation Council ( ÖAR ) was in the ministry of science is settled bound by instructions authority for accreditation of private universities and for the supervision of these institutions. The legal basis was the University Accreditation Act (UniAkkG). On March 1, 2012, the UniAkkG was replaced by two new laws, the Higher Education Quality Assurance Act (HS-QSG) and the Federal Act on Private Universities (PUG). With these new laws, the ÖAR was finally dissolved on September 1, 2012. The new Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria then took over its tasks, which is now responsible for quality assurance in all three higher education sectors (private universities, state universities and universities of applied sciences ).