ris-austria-mcp-server

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Public Hosted Server: https://ris-austria.caseyjhand.com/mcp

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Overview

Austrian law from RIS, the government's official legal information system: federal, state, and municipal law, court decisions, official gazettes back to 1848, draft legislation, and ministerial decrees. Every document is labeled with its binding status. No API key required.

Tools

| Tool | Description | |:---|:---| | ris_search_legislation | Search consolidated federal, state, and municipal law as in force on a date (default today), plus English translations of selected laws | | ris_search_case_law | Search case law in one court or tribunal per call, across 17 court codes | | ris_search_gazette | Browse the federal, state, district, and municipal gazettes, with federal history auto-routed back to 1848 | | ris_search_drafts | Search ministerial review drafts (Begutachtungsentwürfe) and government bills (Regierungsvorlagen) | | ris_search_announcements | Search seven sectoral collections, from social-insurance notices to ministerial decrees and council-of-ministers minutes | | ris_lookup_citation | Resolve one Austrian legal citation ("§ 6 DSG", "BGBl. I Nr. 165/1999", a Geschäftszahl or ECLI) to its document | | ris_get_document | Fetch one document as markdown, HTML, or XML, or just its rendition URLs, with its binding status | | ris_track_changes | List every document added, changed, or deleted in one application within a date window | | ris_list_reference | Look up RIS vocabularies offline: applications, courts, states, ministries, gazette parts, citation formats, search syntax |

Resources

| Resource | Description | |:---|:---| | ris://document/{application}/{documentNumber} | Markdown text of one RIS document |

The resource mirrors ris_get_document, so tool-only clients lose nothing.

Capability reference

ris_search_legislation _tool

• Search by query (full text) or title (title, short title, or abbreviation such as "DSG"). scope is federal (default) or a Bundesland, municipality switches a state scope to municipal law, and language: english searches the ~138 English translations
• in_force_as_of defaults to today in Austria and is echoed as appliedInForceAsOf; include_all_versions and the entered_force_* / left_force_* windows are mutually exclusive alternatives
• Records carry law_id (filter on it for every section of a law), section_label, abbreviation, keywords, in-force dates, eli, celex_references, and content_urls

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ris_search_case_law _tool

• court is required, one code per call. Filter by query, cited norm ("DSG §1"), case_number, decided_from/decided_to, and decision_type (headnote, full_text, or all, the default). Court-specific filters include court_name (justiz), state (lvwg/uvs), and collection_number (vfgh/vwgh/uvs); one sent to the wrong court fails as court_filter_mismatch
• Records carry case_numbers (a headnote lists every decision it covers), decision_date, ecli, norms_cited, and guiding_principle on headnotes
• court: normenliste returns indexed laws under norm_index instead of decisions

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ris_search_gazette _tool

• scope is federal (default), a Bundesland, district, or municipal. Filter by number, part, type, published_from/published_to, issuer, district_authority, or municipality; state scopes also take series and state_era
• Federal queries are served from one era (BgblAuth 2004+, BgblPdf 1945–2003, BgblAlt 1848–1940), echoed as servedApplication; a date range spanning two eras fails as cross_tier_range with the dates to split at
• Records carry binding (authentic, historical_record, consolidated_informational), authentic_pdf_url where one exists, alex_url (ÖNB scan) for 1848–1940, celex_references where applicable, and promulgation on federal entries from 1848–2003

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ris_search_drafts _tool

• stage is required: review_drafts (with in_review_on) or government_bills (2004+, with decided_from/decided_to); ministry accepts an abbreviation such as "BMF" or a full designation
• Records carry review_start and review_deadline or decided, abbreviation and keywords where RIS supplies them, plus materials[] (Erläuterungen, Textgegenüberstellung, Vorblatt/WFA, annexes) classified by type. Pass a materials[].url to ris_get_document to read one

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ris_search_announcements _tool

• collection is required: social_insurance, veterinary, court_rules, trade_exam_rules, health_structure_plans, ministerial_decrees, or council_minutes. A filter its collection doesn't accept fails as collection_filter_mismatch, including changed_since on social_insurance and veterinary. issuer expands ministry ("BMF") and social-insurance carrier ("ÖGK") abbreviations
• Records carry binding (authentic, administrative_directive, or preparatory), authentic_pdf_url, and document_url, the only browsable view of council minutes and decrees
• Each collection adds its own metadata where RIS supplies it, such as case_numbers, in_force_from/in_force_until, keywords, court_name, plan_state, and session_number

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ris_lookup_citation _tool

• One citation per call, classified as a norm ("§ 6 DSG"), gazette number ("BGBl. I Nr. 165/1999"), case number ("VfGH G 13/2025") or ECLI, or collection number ("VfSlg 19.632/2012"). kind forces a route, court and state narrow it, and in_force_as_of pins a norm's version (default today)
• Returns found, kind, and a record in the matching search tool's shape, with alternatives_count when several documents matched. A miss returns found: false with guidance instead of an error
• A norm resolves to the cited law:
  • the law is matched as RIS files it ("§ 2 EStG" → EStG 1988 § 2; "AlVG 1977" → the AlVG, filed without its year; "VwGVG 2014 §28" → VwGVG § 28), and a long title is read by its short form ("StaatsanwaltschaftsG - StAG §35" → StAG § 35)
  • sub-provisions and a trailing ";" are set aside ("Art. 6 (1) B-VG" → B-VG Art 6), and an ordinal-led abbreviation reads like any other ("1. COVID-19-JuBG §1")
  • a cited version is set aside ("ABGB idF BGBl I 2010/28 §988" → ABGB § 988 as in force on the requested date, never the amending act's gazette entry), with a note saying the cited version was not applied
  • an entry citing several provisions ("DSG §1, §24", "ZPO §179. ZPO §275 Abs2") resolves the first and names the rest
• An EU act RIS does not consolidate ("DSGVO Art32", "RL 2006/123/EG", "VO (EG) 178/2002 Art3") returns found: false with its EUR-Lex link, without a RIS request
• A gazette number without its part ("BGBl. Nr. 50/2025") comes back ambiguous, naming parts I, II, and III

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ris_get_document _tool

• Address by document_number + application, or by a document_url from content_urls or a draft's materials[].url; format is markdown (default), html, xml, or urls_only
• Every result carries binding_status and authentic_pdf_url where one exists. Where a PDF is the only rendition (district and municipal promulgations, court rules, party-transparency decisions, council minutes, and draft companions filed without HTML), markdown returns the text extracted from it: plain text with a --- Page N of M --- line before each page, text_source: pdf, and a notice naming the PDF. A scanned PDF with no text layer, one over 16 MiB, or one that cannot be fetched in time returns a notice with the usable URL instead of failing, as do html and xml there and the 1848–1940 gazettes, which have no PDF to read
• Markdown writes image references as absolute URLs on the content host. A rendition that is nothing but page images reads its PDF's text, and keeps the image URLs with a notice when the PDF has none
• Markdown over 40,000 bytes returns kind: outline; re-call with sections to fetch entries. html and xml over 40,000 bytes return kind: link with byte_size and content_urls, so read with markdown

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ris_track_changes _tool

• application (any of the 39 codes) plus changed_from/changed_to; include_deleted adds removals, which no other tool reports
• Records carry changed, published, and binding_status; deletions set deleted: true with deleted_at
• Law rows carry section_label, law_id, and in_force_from/in_force_until (no end date is not the same as in force now), and decision rows carry case_numbers and decision_date

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ris_list_reference _tool

• topic selects one of 17 static tables: applications, courts, states, decision types and kinds, issuing bodies, ministries, collections, stages, changed-since intervals, section types, gazette parts, law types, district authorities, justiz subject areas, search syntax, and citation formats
• Returns summary and entries (value, label, details) with no upstream call

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ris://document/{application}/{documentNumber} _resource

• text/markdown of one document, addressed by application + documentNumber from a search or lookup result; same content as ris_get_document with format: markdown
• Applications that publish only a PDF return its extracted text in a fenced block with a note naming the PDF; the 1848–1940 gazettes and a PDF with no extractable text return a note pointing at the PDF or scan. Oversized text returns the outline, so use the tool to fetch