Registration requirements
(1) Those citizens of the European Union shall be entered into the European electoral records who have reached the age of 18 years prior to 1 January of the year of their registration, who are not barred from exercising their right to vote in elections to the European Parliament, and
1. who have Austrian nationality and their principal domicile in Austria, or who satisfy the requirements of § 4, or
2. who satisfy the requirements of § 5.
(2) Persons entitled to vote, who transfer their principal domicile in Austria from one municipality to another, shall be entered into the European electoral records of the latter municipality, provided that they satisfy all other requirements. Their names shall be deleted from the electoral records of that municipality where they have ceased to have their principal domicile. For this purpose, the municipality where a person is entered into the European electoral records shall inform, without delay and in a documented form, the municipality in which the name is to be deleted from the electoral records, stating that person's former address.
(3) Austrian citizens who are entitled to vote, who transfer their principal domicile to a foreign country, and who so inform in writing the municipality where they cease to have their principal domicile, shall be kept on the European electoral records of this municipality for the duration of their residence abroad, but no longer than a period of 10 years. § 4, para 4, shall apply to re-registrations.
(4) Austrian citizens who are entitled to vote, and who transfer their principal domicile from Austria to another Member State of the European Union, shall also attach a statement to their written notification of having transferred their principal domicile, indicating their wish to vote for the Members of Parliament to be delegated by Austria in elections to the European Parliament during the period indicated in para 3.
(5) A statement in accordance with para 4 shall also be made by those Austrian citizens having their principal domicile abroad when transferring their principal domicile from a state outside the European Union to a Member State of the European Union.
(6) Austrian citizens who are entitled to vote and who revoke in writing a statement in accordance with para 4 or § 4, paras 4 or 5, shall be deleted from the European electoral records.
