English Translation

- 9 - /9 call procedures /at the second stage/ against these findings to entrust the national authorities. In order to explain the proposed measures, I would like to point out that, according to the previous instructions issued by the Supreme Prize Authority, the district authorities and magistrates are authorized, at the first stage, to punish only those criminal acts for which a fine of up to 50 000 K is imposed. If a criminal offence is to be punishable by a higher fine, the national authorities will be responsible for punishing these criminal offences at the first stage. According to the previous regulations, the court of appeal for the findings of the courts of the district and the magistrates at the first stage are the national authorities for which the national courts of that state are responsible. In addition, the Supreme Prize Authority has the right to draw the procedure directly upon itself at I.Stage; b/ If the offender is sentenced to imprisonment of more than one month because of an economic violation with criminal knowledge, or if the offence is repeated regardless of the amount of the penalty imposed, he will pay the penalty in the labour camp; c/ if the offender has been found guilty of the offence, or the offender admits the criminal offence, the appeal against the penalty must be recognized as suspensory and the criminal investigation must be carried out immediately. In this context, I allow myself to ff. To request approval of the draft decree of the Ministry of the Interior, which was presented directly to the Lord Reich Protector with report of the ministry of the interior of October 2, 1941, Z.B-2225-2/10-4l-2, and by which all the authorities carrying out the criminal proceedings in food, supply and price matters are imposed to punish all transgressions by extremely strict and dissuasive penalties. In order to record animal sources on the way from the keeper to the consumer and thus also to obtain a precise and permanent evidence of the livestock at the keepers' place, in addition to the