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The Austrian Parliament has extensive rights concerning the provision of information relating to EU issues. According to Article 23e (1) of the Constitution, the government will have to inform both the Nationalrat and the Bundesrat about every EU legislative proposal and provide them with a subsidiarity analysis. The right to information is established in a specific “EU information act" (EU-InfoG) which came into force on 1 January 2012.

Once per year the government discusses the list of planned initiatives of the European Commission and its annual working plan with the Nationalrat.

The Nationalrat has a specialised subcommittee reflecting the scrutiny procedure. Nevertheless, there are no special procedures in the Nationalrat or in the Bundesrat that deal with the subsidiarity scrutiny and both chambers take decisions on subsidiarity matters in a normal fashion.

The Bundesrat will forward the EU proposal to all its members and to the Landtage (parliaments of the Länder).

The subsidiarity scrutiny by the Länder differs throughout the country. Whereas some regional parliaments have their own tests, others rely on the contributions and analysis provided at national level.​