Austria Policy interest rate
Austria Policy interest rate is 2.25 percent, in force since 17 Jun 2026. It was 2 percent before that. Last checked against the official source on 11 Sep 2026.
ECB deposit facility rate — the euro area policy rate that applies to Austria. The Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) is a Eurosystem national central bank and sets no independent policy rate.
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| Current value | 2.25 percent |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-17 |
| Official source | European Central Bank, Key ECB interest rates (official rate table), re-loaded 2026-07-22 |
| Last verified | 2026-09-11 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
STRUCTURAL: Austria has no national policy rate. Monetary policy is set by the ECB Governing Council for the whole euro area; the OeNB implements it and its Governor sits on the Governing Council but casts one vote among twenty-six. The deposit facility rate (DFR) is served here because since the September 2024 operational-framework change the DFR is the ECB's de facto steering rate for short-term money market rates (€STR). The official ECB key-rates table was independently re-loaded on 2026-07-22 and shows, with effect from 17 June 2026: deposit facility 2.25%, main refinancing operations 2.40%, marginal lending facility 2.65%. The DFR had been at 2.00% since 11 June 2025, so 17 June 2026 was a 25bp increase reversing part of the 2024-25 easing cycle. IDENTICAL value and effective_from must be served for DE, FR, IT, ES, NL and every other euro area member — any divergence between euro area country files is a data error, not a real difference. If you need the MRO rate instead (which is the rate some Austrian statutory reference-rate provisions key off, e.g. the Basiszinssatz mechanism feeding commercial default interest under § 456 UGB), it is 2.40%. VERIFICATION SCOPE: the three rate levels and the 17 June 2026 effective date were read directly off the ECB rate table on 2026-07-22 and are confirmed. The surrounding narrative carried in sibling euro area files — the 11 June 2026 Governing Council decision date, the stated inflation motivation and the Eurosystem staff HICP projections — was NOT re-read from the ECB press release in this pass and is not asserted here. Effective dates follow the settlement of the first main refinancing operation after a decision, not the decision date, which is why decision and effective dates differ by roughly a week. ECB UPDATE (verified 2026-08-22): the Governing Council HELD on 23-24 July 2026 - deposit facility 2.25%, MRO 2.40%, marginal lending 2.65%, all unchanged and in effect since 17 June 2026 ('decided to keep the three key ECB interest rates unchanged'). Next monetary-policy meeting: 9-10 September 2026 (Berlin; decision 14:15 CET on the 10th), then 28-29 Oct and 16-17 Dec. A change takes effect from the start of the following reserve maintenance period - this series uses the EFFECTIVE date.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-11 | 2 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2025-04-23 | 2.25 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2025-03-12 | 2.5 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2025-02-05 | 2.75 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2024-12-18 | 3 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2024-10-23 | 3.25 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2024-09-18 | 3.5 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2024-06-12 | 3.75 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2023-09-20 | 4 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2023-08-02 | 3.75 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2023-06-21 | 3.5 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
| 2023-05-10 | 3.25 | European Central Bank - key ECB interest rates, DEPOSIT… |
Get it programmatically
curl https://euroref.dev/v1/at/policy-rate
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# History: curl https://euroref.dev/v1/at/policy-rate/history?from=2020-01-01
# Provenance: curl https://euroref.dev/provenance/at/policy-rateOther Austria series: Value added tax (Umsatzsteuer / Mehrwertsteuer) · VAT registration threshold · Statutory national minimum wage · Public holidays · Consumer price inflation (VPI, year-on-year) · Corporate income tax (Körperschaftsteuer) · Withholding tax rates · Personal income tax (Einkommensteuer) · Statutory social-insurance contributions · ECB main refinancing operations rate (fixed rate) · Late-payment interest (EU Late Payment Directive) · Statutory interest (gesetzliche Zinsen)
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