English Translation

16l Antitrust and price department. With an address dated 17 February 194l, the Oberste Preisbehörde asked the central associations of industry, commerce and crafts to submit their applications for regulations to the member contributions. A similar request was received by the Central Association of Industry in June of the previous year, but at that time the matter was postponed in agreement with the OPB, in view of the fact that the Orranisa tion contributions are fixed on the basis of a government regulation, the economic management of the Association is controlled by the Ministry of Commerce and finally that the Central Federation did not seek to include the membership contributions in the prices. With regard to the repeated invitation by the above-mentioned attribution dated 1 7 February l.J., the Board of the Cartel and Price Department intervened with the representative of the OPB, Dr. Danek, who agreed in principle that the matter of contributions is not the subject of further discussions. In the rest of the Reich, too, the Reichskommissar is competent for price formation to control various contributions to the association, but as far as the membership fees are concerned in the scope of the organization of the commercial economy, the price compensation does not effectively exercise this right. At the same time, however, Dr Danek pointed out that a certain degree of interest in the matter was also asserted by the price formation agency of the Office of the Reich Protector, which is why it is necessary to deal first-line with the commissioner head of the OBB, Mr. Ministerialdi- terriert von Busse. In addition, in the last Menat, there have been a number of cases in the relationship with the Supreme Prize Authority, where two central associations are interested at the same time.