Pure vegetable oil (or Reines Pflanzenöl, as they call it in German) is totally legal and tax free in Austria.
The Mineral Oil Tax Law (BGBl. I No 180/2004) was amended by the Tax Amendment Law of 30 December 2004, making Pure biofuels completely exempt from mineral oil tax.
More information can be found (in English) in this report:
http://www.ebb-eu.org/legis/AUSTRIA_2nd%20report%20Dir2003_30_at_report_EN.pdf
Using waste vegetable oil is also legal, but collecting it is not. It is legal to drive into Austria with a tank full of WVO and filling up with SVO in Austria, but you must not collect WVO while you are in the country.
This law on waste oils is covered by section 16 of the 2002 Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz (refuse economy law) and it carries hefty fines. If you understand german, you can read the full law here: http://portal.tugraz.at/pls/portal/docs/page/Files/Services/gut/files/abfallwirtschaft/AWG%202002%20idF%2013-8-05.pdf
The most important section for WVO is this:
(6) Altspeisefette und -öle sind getrennt zu sammeln und einemberechtigten Abfallsammler oder -behandler zu übergeben.Altspeisefette und -öle sind einer Verwertung zuzuführen, soferndies ökologisch zweckmäßig und technisch möglich ist und dies nichtmit unverhältnismäßigen Kosten verbunden ist.
Thank you to soizbuag on youtube.com for sending me this information.
Purpose of this blog
While researching the laws regarding vegetable oil as fuel in europe it has become obvious that this information is quite hard to find. We have decided it would be a good idea to show as much of the information that we find as we can all on the same page. We also invite anyone who knows anything about these laws to post comments. This is with regards to using the oil, collecting waste oil and carrying oil in and out of countries.
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