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Article 54 : Matters under concurrent legislative powers

FedLeb.org 01/01/2016
  1. Concurrent legislative power shall extend to the following matters:
    1. Civil law, criminal law, court organization and procedure;
    2. The legal profession, notaries, and the provision of legal advice;
    3. registration of births, deaths, and marriages;
    4. the law of association;
    5. the law relating to residence and establishment of foreign nationals;
    6. matters concerning refugees and expellees;
    7. public welfare;
    8. war damage, reparations, and war graves;
    9. 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;
    10. labour law, including the organisation of enterprises, occupational health and safety and employment agencies, as well as social security, including unemployment insurance;
    11. the regulation of educational and training grants and the promotion of research;
    12. the law regarding expropriation, to the extent cross-cantonal;
    13. the transfer of cantonal natural resources and means of production to public ownership or other forms of public enterprise;
    14. prevention of the abuse of economic power;
    15. the promotion of agricultural production and forestry, ensuring the adequacy of food supply, the importation and exportation of agricultural and forestry products, deep-sea and coastal fishing, and coastal preservation;
    16. measures to combat human and animal diseases,
    17. 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;
    18. the economic viability of hospitals and the regulation of hospital charges;
    19. 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, forest seeds and seedlings, the protection of plants against diseases and pests, and the protection of animals;
    20. maritime and coastal shipping, as well as navigational aids, inland navigation, meteorological services, sea routes, and inland waterways used for general traffic;
    21. 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;
    22. medically assisted generation of human life, analysis and modification of genetic information as well as the regulation of organ, tissue and cell transplantation;
    23. natural resources and onshore or offshore fossil fuel
  2. In the event of variance, divergence, conflict, or contradiction between cantonal law and Federal law, the cantonal law shall always prevail.
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