2>Deutsche Telekom AG has installed about 5.2 million new telephone accesses. Upon completion of the digital ization of the entire network by the end of 1997, eastern Germany will have a more modern telephone network than western Germany.
n the area of housing construction, about 3.6 million housing units have been renovated or newly built with the aid of public funds. Thus one half of the housing stock that existed in 1990 has been modernized.

^Considerable progress has been made in the restructuring of farm enterprises as well. Especially in the area of crop cultivation, structures have emerged which are particularly competitive by European standards.
Economic recovery in eastern Germany also depends on a well-functioning legal system and efficient state and municipal administrations, all of which could be established within a brief period of time thanks to the extensive assistance of administrators from the western states. The process of creating a public administration in the east which conforms to that existing in the west has now practically been completed.