100+ Free Befähigungsprüfung Piercen und Tätowieren Practice Questions

There is no single combined exam: Austria examines the two activities separately, as the Piercen-Befähigungsprüfung and the Tätowieren-Befähigungsprüfung. Both are proof-of-competence examinations for restricted scopes of the regulated trade of Kosmetik (Schönheitspflege), to which § 109 Abs. 3 GewO 1994 reserves piercing and tattooing, and both are administered by the WKO Meisterprüfungsstellen and sit at Level 6 of the National Qualifications Framework. Each has four modules: practical, oral, written and the Unternehmerprüfung.

§ 2 Abs. 1 of the Ausübungsregeln (BGBl. II Nr. 141/2003 as amended by BGBl. II Nr. 261/2008) requires the legally effective written consent of the person concerned in every case. Tattooing a person before their sixteenth birthday is prohibited outright; from 16 to 18 the written consent of the person entrusted with the minor's care and upbringing is additionally required. Piercing an unmündige minor — anyone under 14 — is prohibited outright; from 14 up, guardian consent is additionally required, but that requirement lapses where the pierced site can be expected to heal within 24 days. The regulation itself sets no further site-specific age limits, so restrictions such as an 18-plus rule for intimate or nipple piercings are studio house rules rather than statute.

Under § 4 of BGBl. II Nr. 262/2008 a piercing and tattooing business must prove compliance to the authority every year by producing an Unbedenklichkeitsnachweis from an accredited body; § 6 treats failure to produce it as a grave breach that can cost the operator the reliability required to hold the trade licence. Annex 1 of the same regulation requires reusable instruments contaminated with blood, serum or secretions to be sterilised — only hot-air or steam sterilisers qualify — with a chemical indicator in every cycle, an annual biological check by an accredited microbiology body, and sterilisation records kept for 10 years. A studio that uses exclusively single-use products needs no steriliser and no annual steriliser check.

Tattoo and permanent make-up inks in Austria are governed by the European REACH Regulation (Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/2081) and Austrian chemical legislation. Inks must not contain carcinogenic, mutagenic, reprotoxic (CMR) substances, banned aromatic amines, or heavy metals above stringent concentration limits. All ink bottles must display a batch number, ingredients list according to INCI, expiry date, and the statement 'Mixture for use in tattoos or permanent make-up'.

Since 1 January 2024, the Austrian federal government funds 100% of the examination fees for the first and second attempt at the technical modules and the Unternehmerprüfung, making them free of charge for candidates. From the third attempt onwards, fee schedules under the Allgemeine Prüfungsordnung (BGBl. II Nr. 110/2004) apply.

The official examinations are held in German and require live practical work on consenting adult volunteers plus an oral examination before the full commission and a written paper. This bank is an English-language multiple-choice study adaptation of the theory shared by both exams — cutaneous histology, microbiology and bloodborne pathogens, sterilisation, EU REACH ink limits, and the Austrian consent, contraindication and documentation rules of BGBl. II Nr. 141/2003 and the hygiene rules of BGBl. II Nr. 262/2008. It is not an official translation, it does not simulate either exam's format, and no set of multiple-choice questions can replace supervised practice of the sterile piercing series or the 225 cm² tattoo required in Modul 1.