English Translation

26a distribution and decentralisation can be accommodated. The change of the legal provisions can take place in due course. All attempts to influence the business distribution of personal considerations, the need for validity or the need to extend the authority and not exclusively from factual considerations will be decisively opposed. The contribution of the autonomous administration to the tasks of the Great German Empire will be substantially determined by the extent to which it is prepared to increase its administrative activity as a result by simplifying and reducing the inflated administrative apparatus and by more active use of the civil servants. The tables shall be presented as soon as possible by 1 September 1992 in five copies for all central and intermediate authorities. Only one scheme of a medium-sized authority shall be drawn up by the authorities of the lower level.