Point of Single Contact - PSC

The Point of Single Contact (PSC) Lower Austria is part of a network of Point of Single Contact all over Europe and assistance and problem-solving services. The PSC Lower Austria is a service and information Office that acts as a intermediary between persons who want to provide services in Lower Austria and the appropriate competent authorities. The PSC Lower Austria also offers help if there are problems understanding the information provided on the PSC site of Lower Austria. The support provided by the PSC Lower Austria is free of charge.


The PSC Lower Austria

• provides you with online information about services, i.e. on the procedures and formalities required to access and exercise service activities and provides you with information about the recognition of professional qualifications obtained in a Member State of the EU/EEA or in Switzerland and
     
• accepts applications and forwards them to the competent authorities/offices.
  

The PSC Lower Austria provides an overview of the necessary steps and allows service providers to carry out any formalities electronically. The PSC site of Lower Austria provides you also with information regarding authorities, registers and databases, training courses etc.

Inquiries submitted to the PSC Lower Austria will be answered as quickly as possible. Inquiries in English will be answered in English.

The process map shows the different options available for gathering information and developing the processing of procedure.

Further Information

• EU-Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
• EU-Services Directive
• EU-Regulation for the recognition of professional qualifications
• EU-Regulation of establishing a single digital gateway to provice accees to information, to procedures and to assistance and problem-solving services an damending Regulation Nr. 1024/2012
• EU-Implementing Regulation on the collection and sharing of user statistics and feedback on the services oft he single digital Gateway