English Translation

172 2 If the Council of Ministers wishes to have a summary of its pricing responsibilities, the draft will combine all the responsibilities of the local Ministry of the Interior. This seems inappropriate because, unlike the Prime Minister, the Ministry of the Interior does not have the sufficient position to assert itself vis-à-vis the very strong departments of the other ministerial colleges, particularly in terms of prices. In the Reich, the responsibility for prices as well as in Vienna have not been entrusted to a minister of the department. The most appropriate thing would be to create a special office, which would be directly under the Prime Minister, in accordance with various models. 2/ The draft limits the responsibilities to goods and services required, whereas, in accordance with the rules in the rest of the Reich, they must cover all goods and supplies because of the inevitable link between prices and charges. 3/ According to the previous practice, the powers provided for are intended to give only the right to intervene against unfounded increases in prices, while the central price point to be established should have the right, as a result, to take action against all price increases. According to the previous practice, price increases will not be considered without reason if the food prices are rising as a result of the scarcity. 08800 4/ Strongest political concerns seem to me to exist against the second part of the draft regulation, which is overwritten "special measures to ensure an undisturbed supply of the population". the competent authority: a/ seizure of stocks, b/ lay down rules on the holding, sale, acquisition, prices, bookkeeping of stocks and the essential and maximum allowable quantity of stocks as well as when, to whom, at what prices and at what other conditions they must supply their products, -3