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Article 74

Concurrent legislation shall extend to the following fields:

  1. civil law, criminal law and execution of sentences, constitution of courts, court procedure, the bar, notaries and legal advice (Rechtsberatung);
  2. census and registry matters;
  3. association and assemblies;
  4. the right of sojourn and settlement of aliens;
  5. the protection of German works of art against removal abroad;
  6. matters relating to refugees and expellees;
  7. public welfare;
  8. citizenship of the Laender;
  9. war damages and compensation (Wiedergutmachung);
  10. provisions for war-disabled persons and surviving dependants, the welfare of former prisoners of war and the care of war graves;
  11. law relating to the economy (mining, industry,power supply, crafts, trades, commerce,baking and stock exchanges, private insurances);
  12. labour law, including the legal organization of enterprises, protection of workers and provision of employment,as well as social insurance including unemployment insurance;
  13. the furtherance of scientific research;
  14. the law regarding expropriation insofar as it is concerned with the matters enumerated in Articles 73 and 74;
  15. transfer of land and landed property,natural resources and means of production to public ownership or to other forms of publicly controlled economy;
  16. prevention of the abuse of economic power;
  17. promotion of agricultural and forestry production, safeguarding of food supply, import and export of agricultural and forestry products, deep-sea and coastal fisheries and coastal preservation;
  18. transactions in landed property, law concerning land and agricultural lease, housing, settlements and homesteads;,
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