- Relative autonomy both in legislation and administration
- Article 11-14 B-VG
- Competences allocated to the federation (exhaustive list)
- Article 15
- Residual competence of the federal states
- Laender may influence federal things
- Indirect federal administration
Parliament
- 2 chambers
- National Council (Nationalrat)
- Elected directly by Austrian citizens
- Federal Council (Bundesrat)
- Members of 9 parliaments of the Laender sending members to the federal council
- Laender are influencing legislation on a federal level
- Has veto power
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