English Translation

164 German models within the competence of the Ministry of Agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture may take all measures relating to the production, purchase and takeover, storage, processing, maintenance of stocks, supply and allocation in Section 6 of the listed products (practically all normal agricultural production) and may in particular confiscate them, order the inventory of persons and stocks, determine the consumption quantity and collection for the removal tickets, as well as carry out supervision of the maintenance of the measures taken.© Vl.nař.no.206/1939 Coll. It therefore restricted the contractual freedom of private entities and, under criminal sanctions, prohibited contractual arrangements which would be contrary to the regulation and the legal act which occurred prior to the application of this Regulation and which contrary to it, sanctioned inefficiency. If there were an arrangement in breach of the Regulation after its entry into force, the participants were to be fined as the perpetrator up to 1 million K or a prison within one year, but this was without prejudice to any prosecution for a criminal offence involving many years in prison. In addition, the regulation allowed the cases by which the offence was committed, which were acquired by it, or which were apparently intended for the commission of the offence, as well as unlawful earnings, to be forfeited to the State, even if the perpetrator could not be prosecuted or convicted. On the basis of vl.no.206/139 Coll., the Ministry of Agriculture proceeded to organise the sale of agricultural products through the so-called "the Ministry of Agricultural Products." Market associations established for each sector of agricultural production had the character of public corporations with the compulsory participation of producers and traders in the sector. They also had the exclusive right and obligation to take care of the purchase and sale of agricultural products. (444) There were compulsory levies on agricultural production. In this context, there were also official inspections on the land, in private apartments and in farm buildings, and there was also a check of the books. Later there was a check on the performance of cattle and pigs, the consumption of feed in relation to the quantity of milk per dairy cow was monitored, even a continuous register of poultry was introduced. For breach of obligations in the supply of food, a fine up to 1,000,000 K or a prison within one year could be imposed. The sentence of punishment could have been published on the expense of a convicted person in one or several daily sheets (§9). The minimum penalty then was seizure of food.