Matters under concurrent legislative powers |
Matters under concurrent legislative powers- Constitution of Germany |
Article 74[Matters under concurrent legislative powers]
(1) Concurrent legislative power shall extend to the following matters: 1. civil law, criminal law, court organisation and procedure (except for the law governing pre-trial detention), the legal profession, notaries and the provision of legal advice; 2. registration of births, deaths and marriages; 3. the law of association; 4. the law relating to residence and establishment of foreign nationals; 4a. (repealed) 5. (repealed) 6. matters concerning refugees and expellees; 7. public welfare (except for the law on social care homes); 8. (repealed) 9. war damage and reparations; 10. war graves and graves of other victims of war or despotism; 11. the law relating to economic matters (mining, industry, energy, crafts, trades, commerce, banking, stock exchanges and private insurance), except for the law on shop closing hours, restaurants, amusement arcades, display of persons, trade fairs, exhibitions and markets; 12. labour law, including the organisation of enterprises, occupational health and safety and employment agencies, as well as social security, including unemployment insurance;
13. the regulation of educational and training grants and the promotion of research; 14. the law regarding expropriation, to the extent relevant to matters enumerated in Articles 73 and 74; 15. the transfer of land, natural resources and means of production to public ownership or other forms of public enterprise; 16. prevention of the abuse of economic power; 17. the promotion of agricultural production and forestry (except for the law on land consolidation), ensuring the adequacy of food supply, the importation and exportation of agricultural and forestry products, deep-sea and coastal fishing and coastal preservation; 18. urban real estate transactions, land law (except for laws regarding development fees), and the law on rental subsidies, subsidies for old debts, homebuilding loan premiums, miners’ homebuilding and pit villages; 19. measures to combat human and animal diseases which pose a danger to the public or are communicable, admission to the medical profession and to ancillary professions or occupations, as well as the law on pharmacies, medicines, medical products, drugs, narcotics and poisons; 19a. the economic viability of hospitals and the regulation of hospital charges; 20. the law on food products including animals used in their production, the law on alcohol and tobacco, essential commodities and feedstuffs as well as protective measures in connection with the marketing of agricultural and forest seeds and seedlings, the protection of plants against diseases and pests, as well as the protection of animals; 21. maritime and coastal shipping, as well as navigational aids, inland navigation, meteorological services, sea routes and inland waterways used for general traffic; 22. road traffic, motor transport, construction and maintenance of long-distance highways, as well as the collection of tolls for the use of public highways by vehicles and the allocation of the revenue; 23. non-federal railways, except mountain railways; 24. waste disposal, air pollution control, and noise abatement (except for the protection from noise associated with human activity); 25. state liability; 26. medically assisted generation of human life, analysis and modification of genetic information as well as the regulation of organ, tissue and cell transplantation; 27. the statutory rights and duties of civil servants of the Länder, the municipalities and other corporations established under public law as well as of the judges in the Länder, except for their career regulations, remuneration and pensions; 28. hunting; 29. protection of nature and landscape management; 30. land distribution; 31. regional planning; 32. management of water resources; 33. admission to institutions of higher education and requirements for graduation in such institutions. (2) Laws enacted pursuant to items 25 and 27 of paragraph (1) shall require the consent of the Bundesrat.
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