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(1). Zentralhandelsgessellschaft Ost fuer landwirtschaftlichen Absatz und Bodarf m.b.H. (Z.O.). (Central Trading Company East for Agricultural Marketing and Requirements Limited).
The following has been the mission of the Z.O. as a monopoly company for the Eastern Territories:
(a) Collection of all agricultural products as well as commercial marketing and transportation thereof. (Delivery to armed forces and the Reich),
(b) Trusteeship of enterprises dealing with food supplies,
(c) Providing enterprises dealing with food supplies with special equipment, supplying the agriculture with means of production and the rural population with commodities (premium goods).
The following is the present mission of the Z.O.:
(aa) Winding up of transactions relative to commodities and finances, particularly utilization of evacuated goods brought back from the Eastern Territories and goods which did not come into use there any more,
(bb) Collection of goods brought back from the agriculture and food industry of other occupied territories (General Government West),
(cc) Remaining current business,