Federal Ministry for Economy, Family and Youth
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| State level | Federation | ||
| Position of the authority | Supreme federal authority | ||
| founding | 1848 | ||
| Headquarters | Vienna 1 , Stubenring | ||
| Authority management | Reinhold Mitterlehner , Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Family and Youth | ||
| Website | www.bmwfj.gv.at | ||
The Austrian federal administrative body, known between 2009 and 2014 as the Federal Ministry for Economy, Family and Youth ( BMWFJ for short or Ministry of Economy and Family Ministry ) was primarily responsible for economic policy, trade and industry as well as family policy and youth affairs. Since January 8, 2018, it has been run as the Federal Ministry for Digitization and Business Location.
The Ministry was formed when the Federal Government Faymann I took office in December 2008 from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (BMWA, Ministry of Economics) and the Federal Ministry of Health, Family and Youth (BMGFJ, Ministry of Health and Family).
The Austrian Ministry of Economics was formed from a trade and trade ministry (at times also ministry of labor ), industry , energy and building ministries , with public works (at times also ministry of transport ), which are derived from the monarchy.
With the Ministry of Labor Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection , the Ministry of Technology Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water is currently available in Austria, three other ministries of Economic Affairs, which is specifically to labor market policy to take care of research and development and agriculture, forestry and water management.
The Austrian family ministry (with youth ) was created in 1983 by Fred Sinowatz (and at times also included women and equality and consumer protection or was united with a social ministry ).
Federal Minister
In the Federal Government of the Federal Chancellor Faymann was Reinhold Mitterlehner ( ÖVP ) Minister of Economy, Family and Youth. State secretaries for family and youth were Christine Marek and Verena Remler ( ÖVP ) until April 2011 . After 2011, the family and youth agendas were separated and relocated to a separate ministry, the Federal Ministry for Families and Youth .
Competencies
With the restructuring of the ministry structure under Chancellor Faymann, the agendas of economic policy were merged with that of family policy , a classic core portfolio of a social ministry , but at the same time labor market policy , also a task of an economic ministry, was assigned to the social ministry, so that today there are two ministries dealing with social policy how to take care of business-related matters. This division is a response to the situation in the global financial and economic crisis since 2007.
The area of the Federal Ministry for Economy, Family and Youth currently covers the legal matter of approx. 110 federal laws, 625 ordinances and numerous announcements as well as bilateral and multilateral agreements, which are announced in the Federal Law Gazette for the Republic of Austria .
The BMWFJ is responsible for:
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Trade and industry (insofar as these matters do not fall within the scope of the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology ); this includes in particular:
- Commercial law and the right to provide services
- Trade law
- Closing hours matters
- Commercial and industrial research ; Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft , Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft in agreement with the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. In-company vocational training and professional development
- Matters of in-company vocational training and professional development
- Mining
- Economic and structural policy
- Organization of the internal market (if these matters are not the responsibility of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management )
- Matters of price regulation , price monitoring and price gouging (insofar as they do not fall within the scope of the Federal Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection)
- Energy being
- Carrying out trade and economic policy matters vis-à-vis foreign countries
- Affairs of the Austrian representation authority at the WTO
- Administration of all federal buildings and properties
- Castle Authority Austria
- Federal Furniture Administration
- Construction , housing and settlement matters
- Technical testing ; Shelling Matters ; Measurements, weights , calibration and surveying (agendas in the Federal Office for Calibration and Surveying ); Matters of all other technical test and safety marks ; Standards system ( Austrian Standards International )
- Matters of normalization and typing of electrical systems
- Marking and surveying the national borders
- Engineering and civil engineering matters
- Establishment of a security control system and export controls to ensure the peaceful use of nuclear energy
- Regional funding
- State-owned enterprise affairs
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Family policy including the coordination of family policy and family support
- Family Policy Advisory Board
- Family counseling funding
- Family burden equalization
- Family policy matters in the following areas:
- Housing
- public taxes
- Marriage and child law , guardianship , guardianship and trustee law , maintenance advance law and rehabilitation including the right to probation assistance
- Social insurance including unemployment insurance , maternity protection , general and special welfare and assistance for the disabled
- Popular education
- youth
- Youth welfare (unless it is a matter of civil law )
- Extracurricular youth education (unless it is extracurricular vocational training )
organization
The BMWFJ is structured as follows:
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Federal Minister
- cabinet
- Internal
- Budget and administration
- Personnel and Law
- IT and communication
- Center 1 : Economic Policy , Innovation and Technology
- Center 2 : Foreign Economic Policy and European Integration
- Section I : Company
- Section II : Family and Youth
- Section III : Tourism and Historical Objects
- Section IV : Energy and Mining
- Federal Procurement Office
- Federal Competition Authority
The quality control authority for auditors and auditing companies (QKB) has been set up at the BMWFJ .
Historical development
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Web links
Individual evidence
- Entry on the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
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