The paper analyses the transformation of Austrian
administrative law through the lens of the development of supranational
constitutionalism and it deals with those reforms related to the simplification paradigm.
After addressing the milestones of the theory of “Administrative State” which are still
deeply rooted in Austrian legal culture, the paper focuses on the innovations to
administrative proceedings with particular regard to digitalization. Then it goes on to
illustrate the “revolutionary” reform of the system of protection of individual citizens
vis a vis the public administration, which now configures a jurisdictional model. The
paper also touches upon other changes, less significant (deregulation) or still in
progress (revision of the allocation of competences within the federal state,
privatization and transparency).
