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Dear Colleagues, The German Committee for Elementary Particle Physics (KET) has released an english version of a report it issued in November 2002. It contains the following five recommendations in its executive summary: Recommendation 1: Highest priority is given to the swift completion of the Large Hadron Collider LHC under construction at CERN and of the LHC detectors, so that the facility can commence operation in 2007. Recommendation 2: The next large international particle physics project should be a high-energy and high beam-intensity electron-positron linear collider. Germany should make a significant contribution to such a facility, wherever it is built in the world under international cooperation. Recommendation 3: The efforts to build the TESLA electron-positron linear collider under international cooperation at DESY in the near future are strongly supported. Recommendation 4: Until the completion of the LHC, the continuation of the experiments at HERA and of German participation at the Tevatron is recommended. Furthermore, within the scope of available resources, participation in the B-factories and in neutrino and non-accelerator particle physics projects should be made possible. Recommendation 5: Research and development into accelerator and detector technologies must be continuously pursued. The full document in various formats is available at: http://www.dpg-fachgremien.de/t/ket/ket.html Norman Graf