FERRARI ZUMBINI – AUSTRIAN MODEL OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE 378 THE AUSTRIAN MODEL OF ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE. ORIGINS, CHARACTERISTICS, DIFFUSION AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PERSONAL FACTOR Angela Ferrari Zumbini* Abstract There is one cross-jurisdictional dialogue in the interwar period to which comparative lawyers should pay more attention: the diffusion of the Austrian general law on Administrative Procedure of 1925, also thanks to its circulation by scholars and judges, including those jurists who migrated after the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire after World War I. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction.....................................................................................379 2. The Verwaltungsgerichtshof and its case law..................................379 3. The principles elaborated by the VwGH......................................382 4. The Austrian Allgemeine Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz of 1925…384 a) Aims, principles and objectives of the AVG.....................385 b) Individuals as subjects of rights........................................388 c) Participation rights.........................................................390 5. The Austrian model.........................................................................392 6. The neglected role of the Austrian AVG.......................................394 7. The spread of the Austrian AVG: the importance of the personal factor...........................................395 8. Conclusion........................................................................................397 * Associate Professor of Administrative Law, University of Naples Federico II