Delimitation of contaminated or succeptible areas by termites in Vienna

Xylophage insects and termites in particular can cause significant damage to buildings by degrading wood and its derivatives used in construction. The legislative and regulatory framework, which mainly concerns termites, prescribes, on the one hand, an obligation to declare infested outbreaks and eradication measures in infested areas and, on the other hand, obligations in the case of sale, demolition or construction. Where, in one or more municipalities, outbreaks of termites are identified, a prefectural decree delimits the areas contaminated or likely to be contaminated in the short term. This order is made on a proposal or after consultation of the municipal councils concerned, consultation of the municipal councils to take into account the information obtained from the declarations of infection made in the town hall.