Allow industry and commerce to develop

The main thrust of government industrial and economic policy is to allow
industry and commerce to develop as they please within a controlled
environment. One of the most important aims is to protect the existing
employment level and, if possible, to increase it. To this end, there are still
various incentives available in the eastern part of the country for the
encouragement of manufacturing and of small and medium-size business in
other fields.

These last are, however, normally irrelevant to foreign investors,
since the definitions of “small” and “medium-size” apply to the parameters of
the German company combined with those of its foreign shareholder.