Abbreviations
- AMS
Labour Market Service in Austria
- B-VG
Federal Constitutional Law in Austria
- BBU-G
Federal Agency for Care and Support Services in Austria
- ECHR
European Convention on Human Rights
- ECtHR
European Court of Human Rights
- ESIFs
European Structural and Investment Funds
- CAT
Committee against Torture
- CD&V
Christian Democratic and Flemish
- CEAS
Common European Asylum System
- CERD
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- CEU
Central European University
- CJEU
Court of Justice of the European Union
- CPR
Common Provisions Regulation
- FPÖ
Freedom Party of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs)
- FrÄG
Aliens’ Law Amendment Act in Austria
- MFF
Multiannual Financial Framework
- N-VA
New Flemish Alliance (Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie)
- OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OHCHR
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- ÖVP
Austrian People’s Party (Österreichische Volkspartei)
- PiS
Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość)
- PR
proportional representation
- SAR
International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue
- SD
Sweden Democrats
- SOLAS
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea
- SPÖ
Social Democratic Party of Austria (Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs)
- TEU
Treaty on European Union
- TFEU
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
- UNCLOS
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- UNHCR
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees