!!!Wirtschaftsministerium

Economic Affairs, Ministry of, full name: Federal Ministry of 
Economics and Labour (since 2000), founded as Ministry of  Trade in 
1848. In 1966, an independent Federal Ministry of Building and 
Engineering was founded, which was merged with the Federal Ministry of 
Trade, Commerce and Industry in 1966 and became the Federal Ministry 
of Economic Affairs. The Ministry of Economic Affairs is located in 
the government building on Stubenring street in Vienna. Its 10 
sections are divided up into special departments such as economic 
policy, foreign economic policy and European integration, trade and 
industry, engineering and mining authorities, industry, technology and 
innovation, federal building construction, employment policy and 
fundamental issues in economic and social policy, tourism and leisure 
economics, energy, central labour inspectorate, labour law and general 
social policy, employment policy and fundamental social policy issues.

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Institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Economic Affairs include 
the Austrian Labour Market Service (AMS), the Federal Authority of 
Weights, Measures and Surveying, the Labour Inspectorates and the 
Burghauptmannschaft in Vienna (responsible for structural alterations 
of the Imperial Palace and other historical buildings). The 
administration of Schoenbrunn Zoo and the federal real estate 
administration have been spun off as separate companies.


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