Austrian Gas Grid Management Austrian Gas Grid Management AGGM Austrian Gas Grid Management (AGGM) assumed on June 1st 2017 the role of market area manager (MAM) for the Eastern gas market area in Austria, which comprises all Austrian provinces except for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. In this role, which AGGM took over from Gas Connect Austria GmbH (GCA), the company is responsible for the management of the international gas transmission systems that are operated at present exclusively in the eastern part of Austria. There are no transmission systems in the market areas of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. This is the reason why, in accordance with the
Vorarlberg the Swiss French in the 19th century by invitation during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. There has been a sizable minority of Turkish descent since the 1960s. 78% of the population are Roman Catholic, which puts Vorarlberg in line with the national Austrian average of 73.6%. The second-largest denomination, with a share of 8.4%, is Islam, mostly Turks. 7,817 (or 2.2%) of Vorarlberg's inhabitants are Protestants. For several years, the Vorarlberg economy has been performing well above the Austrian average. While the overall Austrian GDP in 2004 rose by 2.0% in real terms, Vorarlberg recorded an increase of 2.9%.