English Translation

bV -2- The approval under the proposed government regulation is not intended to replace the approval required under other regulations, e.g. the land reform laws. The approval authority is the district authority, but it is provided that the Ministry of Agriculture may reserve the authorisation for individual cases and for special types of cases. This is to be done in particular for large-scale property, but also for cases in which public authorities / protectorates, countries, districts, municipalities, institutions etc./ are involved in the legal process. It is assumed that Section IX is responsible within the Ministry of Agriculture. The decision of the district authority may be appealed to the regional authority in accordance with general regulations, unless it is excluded after the decree of the Reichsprotektor of l8.ll.194o' - I 1 a _ 6l30 - because the decision of a district authority sd s d det is final. The appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court is excluded in the draft, since a judicial review of decisions taken by administrative authorities at the direction of douch services is undesirable. As in the past, the German influence is to be safeguarded by requiring the licensing authority to obtain the opinion of the Oberlandrat or the Reichsprotektor before the decision is taken, namely that the district authority should be bound by the statement of the Upper Landrat and the Landesbehörde and the Agriculture Minister to the position of the Reich Protector. This does not mean that there is a higher incidence of work for the German services, since they have it in their hands to dispense with the template for special cases / e.g. for smaller plots in purely Czech areas / . However, it is important that they have in any case / from the necessary exceptions of § 4 of the draft / the possibility of intervention. For this reason, apart from setting a certain minimum size of the land for the permit, the sale of agricultural land for construction purposes must also be covered in order to prevent the sale in German-Czech municipalities of -3-