English Translation

IS -27 Price formation._ Since the main interest in price policy has been the reorganization of the Supreme Prize Authority. In this way, a reorganization of the price monitoring bodies with a multiplication and delimitation of the scope of the activities to the administrative districts of the Oberlandrats took place. In the meantime, an independent right of regulation in price matters has been transferred to the siting of the prize authority by autonomous Brlass and thus its responsibility and position has been brought closer to that of the Reichskommissar for price formation in the rest of the empire.In the food sector, fruit and vegetable prices are now fixed more weekly, and the reduction of cereal prices is of particular importance. In the case of cereals, the price increases in cereals produced from cereals have become inevitable. For farmers, who have expected much higher cereal prices, the fixing of prices for cereals has led to an increase in the price of cereals. The maximum meat prices fixed have, according to the reports of almost all the Upper Land Councils, led to a shortage of meat that the butchers simply refuse to give the meat at the prescribed maximum prices. In the case of potatoes, the fixed trade margin, which is fully used, is shown as too high, In the industrial sector resthi: the main work in price policy is still in coordination with the increase in the cost of production given by the general increase in wages with selling prices. Some industries are not in a position to absorb these wage increases, so that price increases were allowed. Special emphasis was still placed on price supervision, surprising controls have taken place everywhere, and in a number of cases severe penalties for price driving had to be re-established, in connection with chain-links.