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Vehicle regulations in Austria

  • Driving on the right
  • Speed limits
  • Compulsory wearing of seatbelts
  • Safety distance
  • Emergency lane
  • Using a mobile phone while driving
    • General information
    •  Mobile phone ban while driving – all details
  • Child restraints
  • Smoking ban and non-smoker protection in private vehicles
  • Compulsory wearing of helmets
  • Lighting requirements
  • Obligatory safety equipment
    • Warning equipment
    • First aid kit
  • Minimum tyre tread depths
  • Short-term car parking zones
  • Encounter zone
  • Vignette and toll
  • Driving with foreign number plates
  • Driver identification (driver information)
  • Drinking and driving
  • Drug-impaired driving
  • Driving in winter
    • Compulsory use of winter tyres
    • Requirements to carry snow chains
    • Spike tyres
    • Removal of ice and snow from motor vehicles
    • Snowed-in traffic signs and road markings
    • Snow removal and gritting
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Additional information can be found on the website oesterreich.gv.at on the following topics:

  • Recovery of a towed vehicle
  • EU photocard driving licence
  • Revocation of driving licence – offences
  • System for recording driving offences (Demerit Point System)
Last update: 13/03/2025
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