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Digitization in Mining

Digital solutions should simplify the communication between administration, industry and citizens. In addition, they need to increase the efficiency of public administration as well as automate and optimize its processes. Hence, the administration has to focus on simplification and digitization of its services.

  • Mining Information System – BergIS

    According to the Austrian Mineral Resources Act ("Mineralrohstoffgesetz", MinroG) the Federal Minister for Finance has to keep priority notices on all domestic mining permits, including  general maps. Selected data shall be freely accessible on the internet.

  • Interactive Raw Material Information System – IRIS online

    The Interactive Raw Material Information System “IRIS Online” is the updated web application of the Metallogenetic Map of Austria (1:500000) published in 1997 and its accompanying explanatory publication.

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        • January 2020
          • Gernot Blümel is Austria's new Finance Minister
          • Budget surplus significantly higher than expected
          • Finance Minister Blümel attends first ECOFIN and Eurogroup meetings
          • Biggest seizure of counterfeit luxury watches in Austria, with an equivalent original value totalling EUR 15 million
          • Finance Minister Blümel urges tightening of eurozone Stability and Growth Pact
          • Finance Minister Blümel: 2021 to see reduction in base rate of income tax deducted at source
        • February 2020
          • Finance Minister Gernot Blümel meets US State Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross
          • Customs: 80 % increase in drug confiscations
          • Finance Minister Blümel at ECOFIN and Eurogroup meeting in Brussels
        • March 2020
          • Corona - Blümel: “Good talks with representatives of the banking sector and the OeNB”
          • Blümel: “Will help quickly and directly”
          • Blümel: "Supply of cash in Austria is assured"
          • Finance Minister Gernot Blümel: “A balanced budget is important, but health and jobs in Austria are more important!”
          • Blümel on Austria's 2020 Budget: More money will be provided
          • Blümel: We will do whatever is necessary to help
          • Budget statement: We will do whatever is necessary
          • Extension of deadline for submitting the tax return
          • Blümel on hardship fund – to give quickly is to give double
        • April 2020
          • Finance Minister Blümel: Hardship fund doubled to EUR 2 billion
          • Finance Minister Blümel: EUR 15 billion corona assistance fund to safeguard jobs and protect Austria as a centre of economic activity
          • Blümel: Employee bonuses tax-exempt, full lump sum for commuters remains
          • Blümel: Wearing masks now compulsory – no VAT on protective masks
          • Finance Minister Gernot Blümel on the agreement of the EU Finance Ministers on an aid package in the Corona crisis
          • Finance Minister Blümel: “Times of crisis are not a legal void. Hence zero tolerance for misuse of subsidies.”
          • Corona Aids: Blümel demands temporary suspension of EU state aid law
          • Blümel: Rapid assistance and the greatest possible goodwill are paramount
          • Blümel: Phase II of the hardship fund to be extended
          • Blümel: The Commission is lacking problem awareness
          • Blümel on Austria's 2020 Budget: More money will be provided – No deficit anticipated this year – First EUR 4 bn package of initial emergency aid – Everything necessary will be done
        • Mai 2020
          • EU Commission gives green light for fixed cost subsidy
          • Blümel: 4.6 billion euros of tax have been deferred - three out of four of applicants are small businesses.
          • Blümel Comments on Budget 2020: Volatile Figures
          • Money for business: Fixed cost subsidies will be available this year
          • Blümel: zero tolerance for subsidy fraud amounts to careful handling of tax money.
          • Federal government presents €500 million package for restaurants and pubs.
          • Corona aid: fixed costs subsidy, packages for pubs & restaurants and clubs & associations
          • Tax office: appointments possible from 18 May
          • Short-time working: funds increased to €12 billion
          • Fixed costs subsidy: Start of the largest subsidy in the history of the Second Republic
          • Finance Minister Blümel: €300 million for public transport
          • Federal Government’s €1 billion municipal package
          • Film Industry Summit: €25 million package for Austrian film
          • Hardship funds: six payments instead of three, up to €3,000 comeback bonus
          • €1,000 per month for freelance artists
        • June 2020
          • Ministerial Council launches economic stimulus act
          • Checks on short-time working by the Financial Police: showing as much goodwill as possible, but with as much enforcement as is necessary
          • Economic Stimulus Act: easing the burden, enabling investment
          • Government consultation: €50 billion for rescue, relief and investments
          • Gastronomy and culture sector: VAT reduced to 5%
          • Investments for a strong comeback of Vienna’s economy
          • Austrian Airlines: Austria package to secure Vienna as an operating centre and air transport hub and Austrian Airlines as a brand
          • Finance Minister Blümel: deferral of loan repayments for private individuals and micro-enterprises extended by four months
        • July 2020
          • Austria assumes chair of EUROFISC
          • Blümel: Targeted controls to combat understated invoices will create fairness for domestic retailers
        • August 2020
          • Blümel: Applications open for second tranche of fixed cost grant
          • German-speaking Finance Ministers meet in Vienna
          • Blümel: Austria one of top three countries in terms of economic reconstruction
        • September 2020
          • Blümel: "Getting Austria fit for the financial future"
          • Blümel outraged at comments by Commission representative Selmayr
          • Finance Minister Gernot Blümel receives Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe
          • Blümel: Fraudulent fruit-growers are harming Austria as a location, as well as buyers and consumers, to the tune of around EUR 10 million!
          • Blümel: "Federal Finance Ministry's Coronavirus Hotline guarantees swift and unbureaucratic assistance
        • October 2020
          • Blümel/Schramböck/Köstinger: EUR 25 million for Schönbrunn Zoo
          • Customs seizes 500,000 pieces of fake "Marlboro”
          • Blümel on the 2021 budget: Getting through the crisis together
          • Over 5,000 controls undertaken by Financial Police in the fight against social security fraud
          • Finance Ministry/customs: Biggest drug seizure in years – 140 kg cannabis found in "empty" articulated truck. Customs officers discover false floor
          • Blümel: Turnover compensation to provide unbureaucratic assistance to affected sectors
          • Protecting jobs: More money for short-time work, bridging finance secured
        • November 2020
          • Blümel presents turnover compensation – what we need now is unbureaucratic assistance for affected companies
          • Blümel: Providing rapid assistance to all businesses affected by lockdown
          • Blümel: Proposed initiative for legislative winter package extends existing support
          • Blümel: Applications open today for extension to turnover compensation and fixed cost subsidy phase II
          • Suspected money laundering – customs officers confiscate over DKK 2.5 million
        • December 2020
          • Blümel extends turnover compensation: businesses subject to closure will receive 50%
          • Police and customs seize cannabis valued at EUR 1.3 million
          • Blümel/Köstinger: Seamless system of relief instruments to be available by tomorrow
          • Customs: Raid on illegal cigarette factory in Vienna
          • Brexit: Finance Ministry boosting information resources and customs capacity
      • Press Releases 2021
        • January 2021
          • EU expands State Aid Framework
          • Financial Police take stock of a successful year in 2020
          • Customs officers stop animal traffickers: 74 endangered chameleons found in suitcase with black market value at around EUR 37,000
          • Blümel: 'Turnover loss bonus' - up to 30% of turnover, capped at EUR 60,000 per month
          • Financial Police conduct investigations at Amazon partners
          • Linz customs officers uncover illegal cigarette production in Lower Austrian district of Bruck an der Leitha
          • Blümel: 2021 to bring biggest reform in the Tax Administration--better service for individuals and businesses
        • March 2021
          • Blümel: Turnover loss bonus increased for March
          • Finance Ministry/Customs: Over 1 tonne of drugs withdrawn from circulation in 2020
          • Blümel: Austria's membership of EFRAG strengthens our interests at international level
          • Raab/Blümel: "Through FABIAN, we are making family allowance as straightforward as possible"
          • Finance Minister Blümel presents 2020 Product Piracy Report
          • Blümel: EUR 1.3 billion already paid out to municipalities
          • Tax refunds running into millions obtained by fraud – leading to 5-year jail sentence
          • Blümel: Planning phase begins for 'Graz Center of Physics'– Federal government investing EUR 354 million
          • Customs and police again rescue 9 trafficked puppies
        • April 2021
          • IMF figures show Austria ranks second in the EU in terms of support provided as part of the country's COVID-19 response
          • ECOAustria Study: Austria ranks top in Europe for COVID-19 support
          • Ministry of Finance/Customs: £46,000 carried across half Europe hidden under a mattress in a van
          • 261 kg cannabis resin worth EUR 2.5 m seized by Customs in Kufstein
          • Looking back on a successful year for the Finance Ministry's Coronavirus Hotline – 361 000 queries resolved
          • Blümel: Successful meeting with Daniel Risch, Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Liechtenstein
        • May 2021
          • New BMF app - a European showcase project: one step ahead of the cigarette smugglers
          • Fitch keeps Austria's AA+ credit rating and ensures stable outlook
          • Austria's plan for the EU Recovery Fund
          • Vienna Airport: Customs check on passenger carrying EUR 97 510 in cash confiscated to pay outstanding tax debt
          • Finance Ministry/Customs: High numbers of live animals trafficked in Q1 2021
          • Notional interest on equity - the key to greater crisis resilience
          • New President of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council, Christoph Badelt, pays inaugural visit to Finance Minister Gernot Blümel
          • Blümel: "No let-up in the dedication of our customs officers even during the pandemic!"
        • June 2021
          • Blümel: "Customs investigation into international cigarette mafia reaches final conclusion" – Illegal production machine destroyed
          • Blümel: Helping businesses repay deferred taxes
          • Potentially record-breaking illicit earnings stash uncovered by Tax Fraud Investigation Unit: more than 3.5 m euros had been hoarded
          • EU customs regulations: 22-euro exemption threshold scrapped from the beginning of July
          • Financial help for badly affected businesses extended
          • Blümel: “The tenacity of the Financial Police is paying off. We will not back down even if a global minimum tax rate is implemented.”
          • Stopped by Customs: jeweller wanted to bring 4.5 kilos of gold jewellery into the country illegally
          • Customs officials catch smuggler in the green channel
          • Blümel: “Heavy blow dealt to illegal gambling”
          • Blümel: Explosion in numbers of dummy companies in Vienna
          • Blümel and Kocher present control plan
        • July 2021
          • Blümel: Seeking to ensure tax transparency and to combat the transfer of profits
          • Minister Blümel welcomes agreement on global tax reform
          • Blümel: Corona help for the economy is working: 90 per cent of businesses do not need the special Covid-19 instalment payment facility
        • August 2021
          • In a week of targeted action, Finance Ministry and Interior Ministry intercept 180 welfare offenders at border controls
          • Blümel: Economic recovery is setting government budget on a positive course
          • Blümel: "We will return to a sound fiscal policy"
          • Applications open for two categories of coronavirus assistance
          • Finance Ministry/Customs: Passenger attempts to export EUR 46 000 for Cairo apartment purchase
          • Blümel: Austrian economy is picking up speed, now ranks second in the EU
          • Blümel: In 2020, Tax Fraud Investigation Unit recovered EUR 172 million in the fight against fraud
          • Ministry of Finance/Customs: 12 years of the Trade in Species Act – 818 seizures of endangered species at Vienna Airport
          • Blümel/Schwarz: New Productivity Council to be established in Austria
          • Blümel offers his congratulations to the new Chair of the ÖBAG, Edith Hlawati
          • Smoked out: airport customs force seizes 7.6 tonnes of counterfeit shisha tobacco
          • Blümel: Austrian economy and Austrian businesses in a positive mood - instalment payment model proving its worth
          • Austria to issue Green Bonds for the first time in 2022
        • September 2021
          • Blümel: Continuing positive trend - economy now bigger than pre-crisis level
          • Customs officers conduct 173 000 successful operations and controls in first half of 2021
          • 'Coalition of responsibility' backing Stability and Growth Pact
          • Blümel: Positive trends in the employment market, tax income and the budget
          • Blümel: 5 million to help the recovery in Eastern Europe
          • Blümel presents national financial education strategy: 'My money, my life, my decision – I'm sure'
          • EU recovery fund: Austria receives EUR 450 million pre-financing from EU
        • October 2021
          • Blümel: “We’re reducing tax for everyone who goes to work and is industrious”
          • Blümel: 2022 Budget stands for recovery, stability and sustainability
        • November 2021
          • Blümel: Millionth COFAG application for Corona aid processed
          • Eco-social tax reform creates a framework for the taxation of cryptocurrencies
          • Blümel presents first sitrep on Tax Authority Austria
          • Blümel: Economic upturn clearly evident in federal budget
          • Blümel: Trusted forms of assistance for the domestic economy and jobs
          • Ministry of Finance responds to changed world of work: Tax benefits for home office
          • Blümel: "Reactivation and extension of coronavirus assistance to protect the economy and workers"
          • Application deadline extended for fixed cost subsidy 800 000 and loss compensation I
          • Blümel: “We’re reducing tax for everyone who goes to work and is industrious”
        • December 2021
          • Blümel/Köstinger: Rapid assistance vital to support businesses and workers
          • The Budget in Charts and Figures
          • Blümel hands over office to Brunner at the Finance Ministry
          • Finance Minister Brunner: "We are continuing to help impacted sectors of the economy"
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner invites top economic researchers to exchange of ideas
      • Press Releases 2022
        • February 2022
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner meets UK counterpart Rishi Sunak: green finance, digital tax, COVID recovery and economic support also on the agenda
          • Customs officers in Upper Austria seize more than 60 pieces of ivory jewellery and art
          • Financial Police raid poppy processing factory: 13 undocumented workers deported
          • Graz woman fined after half a million fermented plums smuggled into Austria
        • March 2022
          • Brunner: Austria's AA+ rating confirmed: Outlook improved to "positive"
          • Brunner: Austria supports Ukraine aid program of the World Bank with 10 million euros
          • The relief package in action – calculate your savings now at bmf.gv.at/entlastungsrechner
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner gives green light for €150 energy costs voucher
          • Austrian customs prevents the illegal sale of four rare parrots – red-fronted macaws (Ara rubrogenys) and military macaws (Ara militaris)
          • Tax justice ensured online too: no fewer than 7.5 million reports filed by online platforms since 1 January 2020
          • Customs: over 300,000 counterfeit products confiscated in 2021
        • April 2022
          • Finance Minister Brunner: "Customs offices protect the economy and citizens at the gateway to the rest of the world"
          • Austria, IMF renew agreement on Joint Vienna Institute
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner says 150-euro energy costs voucher will now go to 4 million households
        • May 2022
          • Finance Minister Brunner elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
          • Brunner/Tursky: Three goals for taking greater advantage of digitalisation for Austria
        • June 2022
          • Section head Waiglein re-elected in a key position at EU level
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