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Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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Starting in the early 2000s, the Austrian legislature developed legislation to promote mediation use. Consequently, mediation has a stable foundation in Austria, whether at the level of professional law or with regard to consensus-promoting positioning as a method in both procedural and substantive law regulations.

Development in the past decade or so, however, has been stagnant, leading to a possible need to reassess mediation matters in Austria.