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Constitució Espanyola ::12.ª Legislation on weights and measures and determination of the official time.


 * 13.ª Basic rules and coordination of general economic planning.


 * 14.ª General financial affairs and State Debt.


 * 15.ª Promotion and general coordination of scientific and technical research.


 * 16.ª External health measures; basic conditions and general coordination of health matters; legislation on pharmaceutical products.


 * 17.ª Basic legislation and financial system of Social Security, without prejudice to implementation of its services by the Self-governing Communities.


 * 18.ª Basic rules of the legal system of Public Administrations and the status of their officials which shall, in any case, guarantee that all persons under said administrations will receive equal treatment; the common administrative procedure, without prejudice to the special features of the Self-governing Communities' own organizations; legislation on compulsory expropriation; basic legislation on contracts and administrative concessions and the system of liability of all Public Administrations.


 * 19.ª Sea fishing, without prejudice to the powers which, in regulations governing this sector, may be vested to the Self-governing Communities.


 * 20.ª Merchant navy and registering of ships; lighting of coasts and signals at sea; general interest ports; general interest airports; control of the air space, air traffic and transport; meteorological services and aircraft registration.


 * 21.ª Railways and land transport crossing through the territory of more than one Self-governing Community; general system of communications; motor vehicle traffic; Post Office services and telecommunications; air and underwater cables and radiocommunications.


 * 22.ª Legislation, regulation and concession of hydraulic resources and development where the water streams flow through more than one Self-governing Community, and authorization for hydro-electrical power plants whenever their operation affects other Communities or the lines of energy transportation are extended over other Communities.


 * 23.ª Basic legislation on environmental protection, without prejudice to powers of the Self-governing Communities to take additional protective measures; basic legislation on woodlands, forestry and cattle trails.


 * 24.ª Public works of general benefit or whose execution affects more than one Self-governing Community.


 * 25.ª Basic regulation of mining and energy.


 * 26.ª Manufacturing, sale, possession and use of arms and explosives.


 * 27.ª Basic rules relating to organization of the press, radio and television and, in general, all mass communications media without prejudice to powers vested in the Self-governing Communities for their development and implementation.


 * 28.ª Protection of Spain's cultural and artistic heritage and national monuments against exportation and spoliation; museums, libraries, and archives belonging to the State, without prejudice to their management by the Self-governing Communities.


 * 29.ª Public safety, without prejudice to the possibility of creation of police forces by the Self-governing Communities, in the manner to be provided for in their respective Statutes of Autonomy and within the framework to be laid down by an organic act.


 * 30.ª Regulation of the requirements for obtention, issue and standardization of academic degrees and professional qualifications and basic rules for implementation of section 27 of the Constitution, in order to guarantee the fulfilment of the duties of public authorities in this matter.


 * 31.ª Statistics for State purposes.


 * 32.ª Authorization of popular consultations through the holding of referendums.


 * 2. Without prejudice to the competences that may be assumed by the Self-governing Communities, the State shall consider the promotion of culture a duty and an essential function and shall facilitate cultural communication among the Self-governing Communities, in cooperation with them.


 * 3. Matters not expressly assigned to the State by this Constitution may fall under the jurisdiction of the Self-governing Communities by virtue of their Statutes of Autonomy. Jurisdiction on matters not claimed by Statutes of Autonomy shall fall with the State, whose laws shall prevail, in case of conflict, over those of the Self-governing Communities regarding all matters in which exclusive jurisdiction has not been conferred upon the latter. State law shall in any case be suppletory of that of the Self-governing Communities.

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