Nationals from the EU, the EEA or the Swiss Confederation may be licensed to work as chartered engineering consultants under the right of establishment.

Equivalence of the indicated professional training to qualify for work under the Ziviltechnikergesetz 2019 (ZTG 2019), as well as absence of grounds for disqualification such as: lack of legal capacity, salaried employment in the public sector, bankruptcy or lack of reliability.

No special deadlines need to be observed.

• Request: The competent Chamber of Civil Engineers ( → zt) ^{German text} where the requesting party's office and/or branch office is to be located;
• Decision: Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy ( → BMAW) ^{German text}.

The request may be submitted personally, in writing or by e-mail to the competent authority.

• Proof of nationality;
• Certificate of qualification of the home member state which entitles the party concerned to take up work as a free-lance chartered engineering consultant;
• Certificates of the competent authority of the home member state (no more than three months old) stating that the requesting party
  • is reliable;
  • has not been declared bankrupt;
  • complies with the code of conduct of his/her profession.

• Request:
  • EUR 47.30 federal fee
  • attachment: EUR 3.90 per sheet
• Official decision:
  • EUR 83.60 federal fee
  • EUR 98 federal administrative levy
    

Engineering consultant branch ( → zt) ^{German text}

Sections 4, 10, 32 paragraph 4 of the Ziviltechnikergesetz (ZTG)

I have noted that the data provided by me, as well as any data received by the administration over the course of the preliminary investigation, will be automatically processed as per article 6, para. 1 lit. c and e of the General Data Protection Regulation in accordance with the underlying material laws of the legal process. Furthermore, I am aware that this is for the purpose of executing the legal procedure initiated by me, the granting of regulatory approval and also for the purpose of review. I have read the general information regarding: 

• the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, withdrawal and objection, as well as on data portability
• the right to lodge a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority
• the responsibilities of the process controller and the data protection officer as per https://datenschutz.stmk.gv.at.

Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy

12 January 2024