The General Commissar directs the administration of his district and supervises the Main and Regional Commissars as well as the native administration.
The Regional Commissar directs the administration of his territory as a subordinate administrative office and supervises the native offices in the lowest and county echelons.
The following are particularly important administrative tasks:
a. Police measures,
b. Making the economic forces of the territory available for the maintenance of the occupation troops and the purposes of the German war economy,
c. Caring for the population,
d. Securing of supplies and installations of all kinds which are important for life and for war,
e. Collaboration with the maintenance as well as reestablishment of inland water communications of rail and postal communications,
f. Supervision of the civil population, collaboration with the counter intelligence [Abwehr], interesting the population in rendering service,
g. Dissolution of enemy organizations which might still exist.