are to be consulted before important Decrees are issued, on the basis of the Decrees of November 7 and 27, 1918 (R.G.Bl., pp. 1292, 1339), and the law relating to a simplified form of legislation for the purposes of management of transition of April 17, 1919 (R.G.Bl., p. 394), or where the Rules made by the Bundesrat, the People's Commissaries, the Imperial Central Departments, including the Prussian Ministry for War, for the war and transition administration are repealed or modified in important points. If the Committee adopts a position in any fundamental question diverging from the standpoint of the Government, with less than three-quarters the votes cast, then the latter has the right to demand a resolution of the full assembly of the Federal Economic Council. The Committee can, on its side, refer a question to be dealt with by the full Assembly by a majority of threefourths the votes cast. The number of members for each of these Committees shall not be more than 30. The election of deputies is permissible and is to be regulated by the rules of procedure. The representatives of the workers in the Groups I.-VI. of Article 2 must be represented on these Committees in as great a measure as the representation of the representatives of the employers. ARTICLE 12 The Federal Economic Council and its Committees, for the elucidation of economic and socio-political questions, can demand that the Government, or an authority entrusted by the latter with this duty, shall make use of its rights to draw on information respecting economic conditions, and, as far as the law is not opposed to it, lay before the Federal Economic Council the results of these inquiries. ARTICLE 13 As soon as the bodies requisite for the election of the definitive Federal Economic Council are created, the Government shall appoint the election and the time of assembly of the definitive Federal Economic Council. After the assembly of the latter the Government shall ordain the dissolution of the provisional Federal Economic Council. ARTICLE 14 This Decree comes into force on the day of publication. THE GOVERNMENT. BERLIN, May 4, 1920. INDEX Advisory councils in Germany, 45 nomic Council, 113, 119 Allgemeiner Kongress der Arbeiter- Alliances, Industrial, 66, 82, 85, 100, Angst, Richard, Bismarcks Stellung, 38 Article 165, 98, 99, 130, 182, 184, 185, Brand, Dr., 194 Bryce, Viscount, 8, 9, 211, 228 Bureaucracy in Germany, 44, 64 Cecil, Lord Hugh, 19 Cecil, Lord Robert, 12, 16 Central Alliance of the German Trans- Central Association of Consumers' Central Industrial Alliance of In- Chambers of Commerce, Labour, etc., 25, 57, 100, 106, 127, 190, 204 Churchill, Lord Randolph, Blue book Citizens' interests, 17 Civil service, 14, 44, 217 Clarke, William, 47 Class-State," 74 Clynes, J. R., 32 Cohen, Max, Cohen-Kaliski plan, 61, Cole, G. D. H., 25, 41, 60, 189, 197 117, 145, 147, 185 and Labour Ministry, 105 Economic and Workers' Councils, Economic centres, 200 Economic Council-German Federal administrative organisation, 133 and parliamentary committees, 222 basis of representation, 106, г11 Bulletin of its work, 156 date of decree, and first meeting, 121 expert information for, 128 |