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National news agency of Austria
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Austria Press Agency
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Native nameAustria Presse Agentur
Company typeCooperative
IndustryNews media
Founded1849; 176 years ago (1849)
HeadquartersVienna, Austria
Area servedAustria
ProductsNews, information services
Revenue75,941,000 Euro (2016) Edit this on Wikidata
OwnersAustrian newspapers and ORF
Number of employees519 (2018) Edit this on Wikidata
SubsidiariesAPA-OTS Originaltext-Service GmbH
Websitewww.apa.at

The Austria Press Agency (German: Austria Presse Agentur, APA) is the national news agency and the leading information provider in Austria. It is owned by Austrian newspapers and the national broadcaster ORF.

In 1994, prior to Austria's accession to the European Union, the Austrian government contracted with APA under an indefinite term agreement for the supply of press-related services. The contract was subsequently amended, transferring the contract from APA to a wholly-owned subsidiary, APA-OTS, converting the cost to Euros, adjusting the price, and revising the contract's price indexation clause. A rival business, pressetext Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, challenged the amendments, arguing that they constituted the award of a new contract which should have been procured competitively under the legal regime for procurement which applied to Austria after it joined the EU. The issues were referred by the Austrian Bundesvergabeamt (Federal Procurement Office) to the European Court of Justice, which issued a preliminary ruling on 19 June 2008. The Court ruled that in the circumstances, the amendments did not amount to a material change to the contract, and the government actions were justified.

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References

  1. "Science News ? Overview of Science Reporting in the EU" (PDF). EU. 2007. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  2. European Court of Justice (Third Chamber), pressetext Nachrichtenagentur GmbH v Republik Österreich (Bund), APA-OTS Originaltext-Service GmbH and APA Austria Presse Agentur registrierte Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, Case C-454/06, delivered on 19 June 2008, accessed 9 January 2024

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