Submitted by christian on Sat, 02/21/2015 - 11:52
There are between 3000 and 4000 people professionally engaged in lobbying in Austria: 60% of them work in the chambers, an estimated 15% work in-house, about 15% work for associations and the remaining five to 10% are self-employed „agency lobbyists“. A 2014 survey of 357 members of the Economic Forum of Managers (WdF) showed that 62.2% of the Austrian companies surveyed practice lobbying. Most lobbying activity takes place in Vienna . Due to the federal structure of Austria, the number of contacts at state and local level involved in direct corporate lobbying is particularly high.
