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14-12, but only the possibility of more effective intervention in the form of a necessary and more effective approach to the ordinary management of the bureaucrats. The best emergency solution from this dilemma seems to me therefore to be the formulation of the "right of proof in case of danger in delay", this formulation excludes abuse and too frequent application, but nevertheless ensures for the need the sufficient authority and legitimization upwards against the central points. 5.) Information right. More important, however, than the much-controversial right of instruction seems to me to be an all-encompassing information right in the performance of the tasks of the Higher Council inspectors, which alone enables them to gain knowledge of things that may also be of interest to the top of the list, i.e. to be "decentralized centre point". However, this right to information can only be effective if, on the other hand, it is subject to an information obligation imposed on individual administrations vis-à-vis the Oberlandrat. In fact, too many things, and probably the most important and significant ones, would go unchecked by the Oberlandrat if he had to confine himself to telling every single director of his department from time to time what is new to him. Only in the case of a clear obligation to inform the Oberlandrat, which is strictly defined in the instructions to the individual departments as an order, is he really able to be the man who "knows everything". 6.) Sources of information.