materials
lists the companion documents filed with the draft — Erläuterungen (the drafting reasoning the bill text omits), Textgegenüberstellung, Vorblatt/WFA, covering letter, annexes. Their filenames are opaque and per-record, so passing a materials[].url to risgetdocument is the only way to read one; forma
How to use it
materials is exposed by the Ris Austria MCP Server MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the materials tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
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plus changedfrom/changedto returns every document added or changed in the window. A typical two-week federal-law window carries 1,400+ changes
socialinsurance (Avsv), veterinary (Avn), courtrules (KmGer), tradeexamrules (PruefGewO), healthstructureplans (Spg, ÖSG/RSG), ministerialdecrees (Erlässe), councilminutes (Ministerratsprotokolle)
is required and takes one application per call: vfgh, vwgh, justiz, bvwg, lvwg, dsk, upts (party-transparency senate), plus ten historical and specialized tribunals. Cross-court research fans out one call per court
targets headnotes (Rechtssätze), full decision texts, or both
markdown (default, boilerplate stripped), raw html, RIS xml, or urlsonly
defaults to today. Omitting the date upstream silently searches all historical versions, so includeallversions is the explicit opt-in and the applied date is echoed in every response
surfaces removals, which no other RIS surface exposes
accepts the abbreviation ("BMF") and the server expands it to RIS's exact designation
Fetch one document's full text as markdown/HTML/XML, or its export URLs, with binding-status labeling and the authentic PDF wherever one exists.
Ground the domain vocabulary offline: applications and coverage windows, court codes, Bundesländer, decision kinds, ministries, district authorities, gazette eras and parts, citation formats, search syntax.
Resolve one Austrian legal citation ("§ 6 DSG", "BGBl. I Nr. 165/1999", "RGBl. Nr. 189/1902", a Geschäftszahl, "VfSlg 19.632/2012") to its canonical document.
Search sectoral official gazettes and executive documents: social-insurance notices, veterinary notices, court rules, trade-exam regulations, health structure plans, ministerial decrees, council-of-ministers minutes.
Search Austrian case law (Judikatur), one court or tribunal per call: VfGH, VwGH, ordinary courts, BVwG, LVwG, DSB, the party-transparency senate, and ten more.
Search the federal lawmaking pipeline: ministerial drafts in public review (Begutachtungsentwürfe) and government bills (Regierungsvorlagen).
Browse the promulgation record at every level of government: federal (three era tiers back to 1848, auto-routed), state law and ordinance gazettes, district, and municipal.
Search consolidated federal, state, and municipal law, one document per §/Artikel/Anlage, filtered to the version in force on a given date (defaults to today). Also serves English translations of selected laws.
Per-application change feed: every document added or changed in a date window, deletions included.
routes to federal law or one of the nine Bundesländer; municipality narrows a state scope to municipal law (selected norms, six Bundesländer)
matches the title, short title, or abbreviation ("DSG", "ABGB")