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 measures against epidemic and infectious diseases affecting humans and animals, the licensing for medical and other healing professions and the healing trade and traffic in drugs,medicines, narcotics and poisons;

protection relating to traffic in food and stimulants as well as in necessities of life, in fodder, in agricultural and forestry seeds and seedlings, and protection of trees and plants against diseases and pests;

ocean and coastal shipping and aids to navigation, inland shipping,meteorological service,ocean channels and inland waterways used for general traffic;

road traffic,motor transport and the construction and maintenance of highways used for long-distance transport;

railways other than federal railways, except mountain railways. 

The Federation shall have the right on the basis of Article 72 to issue general provisions concerning:

 the legal status of persons employed in the public service of the Laender, Gemeinden and other public law corporations;

the general legal status of the press and motion pictures;</li>

<li>hunting, protection of nature and care of the countryside;</li>

<li>land distribution, regional planning and water conservation;</li>

<li>matters relating to registration and identity cards.</li> </ol>

(1) Bills shall be introduced in the Bundestag by the Federal Government,by members of the Bundestag or by the Bundesrat.

(2) Federal Government bills shall first be submitted to the Bundesrat. The Bundesrat shall have the right to give its opinion on these bills within three weeks.

(3) Bundesrat bills shall be submitted to the Bundestag by the Federal Government, which must add a statement of its own views. Rh