English Translation

28 The Head of the Department of Finance Prague, December 29, 1943. VIIb - 3015 - 1 Original with 4 annexes Eing.: 30.Dez.1943 Mr. Ministerialrat Dr.G i e s in the house. tero lavoa I place special value in the handling of fundamental questions of budget and accounting on the close ACS contact with the General Department "Oberste Rechnung=kontrolle ". However, in accordance with the opinion of the Head of the Judiciary of 15 October 1943 - II Gen.f.5280, I have serious concerns that this agreement will be extended in general matters to include the powers of the Audit Office in the activities of the Administration. The participation in a l l l e n proposed by the General Secretariat of the SAC would, in my opinion, lead to an undesired delay in the individual administrative act, but would also lead to a shift of responsibility which does not seem appropriate to me.The position given to the General Council would go far beyond that which the Court of Auditors of the German Reich has by virtue of law or by reason of the administrative exercise in the territory of the Kingdom. In some cases, the SAIs have already been involved in the ongoing administration by law. Moreover, the Ministry of Finance has always been involved by the SAI in measures of a fundamental nature in the field of budgetary and accounting matters. I believe that, apart from these cases, the SAIs should be limited to the power to examine them in accordance with the rules in the rest of the Reich. I therefore propose that the second paragraph of the draft decree sent to the opinion be deleted. 21018 St. M.IA- 35a43