Gesundheitsqualitätsgesetz, http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20003883; § 20a Bundes-Seniorengesetz, https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/i/1998/84/P20a/NOR40142941; In Austria the responsibility for provision, funding, quality assurance and regulation of long-term care is divided between multiple actors on the national, regional and local level. The Austrian federal states are primarily responsible regarding matters regarding care benefits in kind (e.g. the operation of nursing homes, staffing ratios). As a result, the quality management regarding LTC falls largely in their responsibility as well. However, certain structural quality principles concerning LTC are regulated at the federal level. The Care Fund Act (which contains, among other things, rough guidelines for staff planning in care homes; https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20007381) and the Agreement pursuant to article 15a of the Federal Constitutional Law on joint measures of the federal government and the federal states for people in need of care (which primarily regulates structural aspects such as room size, infrastructure and location of care homes; https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10001280) 