Federal Agency for Transport

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AustriaAustria  Federal Transport Authority (BAV, VERSA)
Former Austrian authority
State level Federation
Position of the authority Department of a ministry
At sight Federal Ministry of Transport (2015: BMVIT)
Dissolved 2017
Headquarters Vienna 21 , Trauzlgasse 1
Authority management Gerald Pollmann
Website versa.bmvit.gv.at

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 8.6 ″  E

The Federal Agency for Transport  ( BAV ) was an Austrian authority for road safety and other matters of public transport . It was a subordinate agency of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology  (bmvit) and located in Vienna-Floridsdorf (industrial area Strebersdorf).

After the federal authorities moved out, the site was taken over by the Gschwindl transport company . Big Bus Tours, Waka Fahrtendienst and AV Hall Bus and Truck Center are also rented there.

organization

The offices of the BAV were:

  • Central Services
  • Automotive and traffic technology
  • Federal Safety Investigation Board (before May 16, 2012 the name was Federal Accident Investigation Board )

There was cooperation with the state testing centers .

From October 3, 2006, Minister Council Gerald Pöllmann was the head.

The BMVIT planned to dissolve the BAV and to integrate it into the ministry, also to move spatially to Radetzkystraße, but to leave only SUB as a subordinate position.

On March 20, 2017, the necessary legislative changes to the Motor Vehicle Act and Accident Investigation Act were assessed; they came into force on August 1, 2017.

Functions

The Federal Agency for Transport was responsible for certain matters relating to road transport , rail transport , aviation , shipping and cable cars . The agendas in the field of road safety work were brought together under the umbrella of VERSA (Road Safety Work for Austria).

The BAV was legally entitled (Section 131 (1) KFG 1967 ):

  • for processing, solving and assessing automotive and traffic-related issues,
  • for testing and appraising motor vehicles and trailers, parts and equipment and testing the load of these vehicles.

It creates expert reports on tests and "based on practical experience also contributes to the further development of regulations (laws, ordinances, decrees, defect catalogs, standards, etc.) and vehicle test systems".

Among other things, she was in charge of the special inspection of the roadworthy and operationally safe condition ( demonstration ). She also kept the Austrian approval database for type approval in road traffic. It also trains driving examiners, for example (Section 34a Z. 7  FSG ). Furthermore, she bears overall responsibility for the digital tachograph system , and in this role she is the international Austrian Member State Authority  (A-MSA, according to ordinances 3821/85 / EG and 2135/98 / EG). It can also be used for monitoring functions in the area of dangerous goods transport (Section 36 (1) GGBG , Section 12 (3 ) SchFG ).

The BAV was also the official Austrian accident investigation center in rail traffic and cable cars, in civil aviation (according to the Agreement on International Civil Aviation , AIZ; former FlUG1999 ) and in shipping. The name has been the federal safety investigation center since May 16, 2012 (based on 996/2010 / EC, uniform throughout Europe). The legal basis for this activity is the Accident Investigation Act  (UUG) of 2006. As such, it is "functionally and organizationally independent of all authorities and parties, public and private bodies whose interests could conflict with the tasks of a safety investigation agency" (§ 2 UUG).

The FOT published comprehensive activity reports (annual report, safety reports), which Parliament also took note of, as well as statistical work on accidents and road safety.

A software service for real-time recording of the frequency of accidents, which had been developed at the institution, was discontinued in 2013 after a few days.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Organization: Federal Transport Authority. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Detailed view, help.gv.at/ldap.gv.at.
  2. ↑ Subordinate offices bmvit.gv.at, (8 April 2015), accessed March 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Federal Agency for Transport: Business division. Status: February 21, 2014 (pdf); Organigram (updated online), both versa.bmvit.gv.at, accessed March 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ State testing offices versa.bmvit.gv.at.
  5. ↑ Head of the FOT . versa.bmvit.gv.at> News , October 12, 2006.
  6. ↑ Federal Transport Authority is dissolved orf.at, March 18, 2017, accessed March 18, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b c d e Federal Transport Authority (BAV). bmvit.gv.at. Not effective March 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ Special review - demonstration. help.gv.at.
  9. ↑ Approval database versa.bmvit.gv.at.
  10. ↑ Federal Safety Investigation Agency - Rail, versa.bmvit.gv.at.
  11. ↑ Federal Safety Investigation Center - Cableways, versa.bmvit.gv.at.
  12. ↑ General principles, versa.bmvit.gv.at.
  13. ↑ Federal Safety Investigation Agency - Shipping, versa.bmvit.gv.at.
  14. ↑ Activity reports, versa.bmvit.gv.at.
  15. ↑ cf. such as the 2011 activity report of the Federal Transport Authority: high density of checks as a guarantee for safe mobility. Press release APA OTS0132, August 2, 2012.
  16. ↑ See for example: Standard documentation meta information on the rail traffic statistics regarding freight traffic, passenger traffic, accidents, inventory and operation. Statistics Austria, p. 9 (pdf, statistik.at).
  17. ↑ The highly praised agency surprisingly closed. In: Kurier online, February 15, 2013.