Legal Notices

Joint information pursuant to the Austrian Commercial Code (Unternehmensgesetzbuch  (UGB)), the Act on Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce-Gesetz (ECG)), the Media Act (Mediengesetz (MedienG)), the Federal Act on the Provision of Services (Bundesgesetz über die Erbringung von Dienstleistungen (DLG)) as well as the German Rules of Professional Practice for Lawyers (Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte (BORA)).

Entrepreneur / Service Provider / Media Owner: LEXPORTATEU Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Puchsteinstraße 14, 5400 Hallein (Austria), www. lexportateu.com, email: office@lexportateu.com, phone: +43-6245-90229-11, fax: +43-6245-90229-89.

LEXPORTATEU Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH is a limited liability company incorporated under and governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany with registered office at Frankfurt a.M. and registered with the commercial register (Handelsregister) of the local Court (Amtsgericht) of the city of Frankfurt a.M. under register number HRB 122996. Sole shareholder and managing director: Rechtsanwalt (RAK FFM) / Abogado (ICAM Madrid) / Eingetragener Europäischer Rechtsanwalt (RAK Salzburg) Florian Deck. Branch office registered with the commercial register (Firmenbuch) of the District Court (Landesgericht) of the city of Salzburg under register number FN 566500 p.

VAT ID number: ATU77251778

Competent Supervisory Authorities:

  1. Austria: Salzburg Bar Association (Rechtsanwaltskammer Salzburg), Imbergstraße 31C, 5020 Salzburg (Austria) – srak.at, email: info@srak.at; phone: +43-662 64 00 42, fax: +43-662 64 04 28.
  1. Germany: Frankfurt am Main Bar Association (Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main), Bockenheimer Anlage 36, 60322 Frankfurt am Main (Germany) – rak-ffm.de/startseite/, email: info@rak-ffm.de, phone.: +49-69/170098-01, fax: +49-69/170098-50.
 

Professional title: Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft (Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main); Granting member State: Federal Republic of Germany.

Professional rules applicable:

  1. Rules under European Union law: Art. 43 TFUE, Art. 49 TFUE, Directive 98/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 to facilitate practice of the profession of lawyer on a permanent basis in a Member State other than that in which the qualification was obtained, Council Directive 77/249/EEC of 22 March 1977 to facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers of freedom to provide services, CCBE Charter of Core Principles of the European Legal Profession and Code of Conduct for European Lawyers.
  1. Rules under Austrian law: Federal law on the Freedom to Provide Services and on Establishment of European Lawyers as well as the Provision of Services of Internationally Active Lawyers in Austria (Bundesgesetz über den freien Dienstleistungsverkehr und die Niederlassung von europäischen Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälten sowie die Erbringung von Rechtsdienstleistungen durch international tätige Rechtsanwältinnen und Rechtsanwälte in Österreich (EIRAG)), Regulation on the Lawyers’ Profession (Rechtsanwaltsordnung (RAO)), Guidelines for the Exercise of the Lawyer´s Profession (Richtlinien für die Ausübung des Rechtsanwaltsberufes (RL-BA 2015)), Guidelines on the Exercise of Activities in the Context of Arbitration (Richtlinien für die Tätigkeit von Rechtsanwälten im Rahmen von Mediation (RL-Mediation)), Framework Arbitration Rules (Rahmenschiedsordnung), Disciplinary Stature for Lawyers (Disziplinarstatut (DSt)), Act on the Lawyer´s Fees (Rechtsanwaltstarifgesetz (RATG)), Autonomous Fee Criteria of the Austrian Chamber of Lawyers (Autonome Honorarkriterien, (AHK)); Statutes of the Electronic Legal Trust Register of the Salzburg Bar Association (Statut Elektronisches Treuhandbuch der Salzburger Rechtsanwaltskammer (eTHB 2020)); Link to the rules applicable: https://www.rechtsanwaelte.at/kammer/gesetzestexte/
  1. Rules under German law: Federal Lawyers´ Regulation (Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (BRAO)), Rules of Professional Practice for Lawyers (Berufsordnung der Rechtsanwälte (BORA)), Lawyers´ Remuneration Act (Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz (RVG)), Regulation on Attorneys´ Lists and the Particular Electronic Mailbox (Verordnung über die Rechtsanwaltsverzeichnisse und die besonderen elektronischen Anwaltspostfächer); Link to the rules applicable: https://www.brak.de/fuer-anwaelte/berufsrecht/.
 

Professional liability insurance: A professional liability insurance has been taken out with the insurer HDI Versicherung AG, HDI-Platz 1, 30659 Hannover (Germany). The insurance´s territorial scope covers the legal practice on the place of LEXPORTATEU´s establishment in Austria indicated above, the further bar admission in Germany, the extrajudicial representation provided by means of cross-border of services in other member States of the European Union and Turkey as well as the judicial representation of clients in all member States of the European Union. The material scope of the insurance covers giving legal advice on the law of the European Union, of all of its member States as well as on Turkish law.

Price of the Services: Usually the fees result from the provisions of remuneration agreements concluded on an individual basis in each case. Only in the event and to the extent no such remuneration agreements exist, the fees result from the prices shown in the General Terms and Conditions for Legal Services and subsidiarily from the statutory provisions on lawyers´ remuneration indicated above.

Disclaimer on European consumer law: LEXPORTATEU advices exclusively enterprises and consequently does not direct its activities in any way to consumers in the meaning of the respectively applicable provisions of European law and the provisions of the member States promulgated to transpose the former. Thus, the information contained in the website does not address, nor is it directed to consumers, in particular but not limited to in the meaning of art. 15 para. 1 lit c) of the Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2012 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters as well as art. 6 para. 1 of the Regulation (EC) No 593/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome I).

In the event the correctness and the amount of fees invoiced by LEXPORTATEU are under dispute, both LEXPORTATEU and the client are entitled to call upon the Salzburg Bar Association´s conciliation committee in order to attempt to find an amicable settlement of the controversy.  LEXPORTATEU  is not obliged  nor willing to participate in any further procedures on alternative dispute resolution in the meaning of the Austrian Act on Alternative Dispute Resolution (Alternative-Streitbeilegung-Gesetz (AStG)) as well as the Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 on online dispute resolution for consumer disputes.

Contractual terms concerning the law applicable and the competent courts: Concerning the law applicable and the competent courts, we refer to the terms stipulated in our General Terms and Conditions for Legal Services.

Intellectual Property: All contents, copyright and all other intellectual property and proprietary rights in this website belong to LEXPORTATEU. Permission is granted exclusively for private use. Any exceeding use requires LEXPORTATEU´s express and prior consent.

General tendency of the medium: this website as well as all media offered in connection with the usage of the further services offered by it (newsletter, brochures, publications, webinars etc.) are exclusively directed to existing or potential future clients as well as other businesses. They are limited to general information on the scope of LEXPORTATEU´s legal advice in the area of commercial law and consequently are not subject to any political or ideological direction or movement in the meaning of the Austrian MedienG.

 Disclaimer: All information in this website is given for the sole purpose of providing general information. Neither does it lead to the conclusion of a service agreement, nor does it create other legal obligations or liabilities arising from advice or recommendation or any other kind of culpa in contrahendo. Pursuant to § 17 ECG and in fulfilment of the requirements provided for in this provision, LEXPORTATEU is not liable for external links eventually contained in this website.