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Article 86
[Federal administration]
Where the Federation executes laws through its own administrative
authorities or through federal corporations or
institutions established under public law, the Federal Government
shall, insofar as the law in question contains no
special provision, issue general administrative rules. The
Federal Government shall provide for the establishment of
the authorities insofar as the law in question does not otherwise
provide.
Article 87
[Matters]
(1) The foreign service, the federal fi nancial administration,
and, in accordance with the provisions of Article 89, the
administration of federal waterways and shipping shall be
conducted by federal administrative authorities with their
own administrative substructures. A federal law may establish
Federal Border Police authorities and central offi ces for
police information and communications, for the criminal
police, and for the compilation of data for purposes of protection
of the constitution and of protection against activities
within the federal territory which, through the use of
force or acts preparatory to the use of force, endanger the
external interests of the Federal Republic of Germany.
(2) Social insurance institutions whose jurisdiction extends beyond
the territory of a single Land shall be administered as
federal corporations under public law. Social insurance institutions
whose jurisdiction extends beyond the territory
of a single Land but not beyond that of three Länder shall,
notwithstanding the fi rst sentence of this paragraph, be administered
as Land corporations under public law, if the
Länder concerned have specifi ed which Land shall exercise
supervisory authority.
(3) In addition, autonomous federal higher authorities as well
as new federal corporations and institutions under public
law may be established by a federal law for matters on
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