From September 2025, Austria will also have a constitutionally guaranteed right to information from the state: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokument.wxe?Abfrage=BgblAuth&Dokumentnummer=BGBLA_2024_I_5
Official confidentiality, which has been enshrined in the Federal Constitution B-VG since 1925, is abolished shortly before its 100th anniversary. The new Article 22a of the Federal Constitution B-VG introduces a constitutional obligation to actively disclose information for the organs of the federal and provincial administration, the ordinary and administrative courts and the Constitutional Court, as well as a constitutionally guaranteed right and thus fundamental right of access to information. In future, this should make Austria's regularly poor performance in international transparency rankings a thing of the past and bring about a paradigm shift towards a transparent state. Only municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants are excluded from the proactive information obligation, as it is feared that their capacities would be overstretched, particularly from a technical point of view.