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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0708.00019.] The local pole and zero complexity of a plant and a set of closed-loop system specifications is studied by means of an equivalent open-loop controller. It is emphasized via an example how the complexity of a nonlinear systems is not properly described by the number of integrators only. Further, if the complexity of the plant is constant, the complexity of the overall system is a function of the controller complexity only. A local measure of complexity is proposed, in terms of the pole and zero modules of the equivalent open-loop controller. These modules are subject to fixed constraints which are enforced by the plant dynamics and closed- loop specifications. In MIMO systems, zero modules are more varied in structure and character than are pole modules which are always of the state-space type. Some of the zeros are of the state-space type, while some are characterized as a module of fixed zeros in solutions for equivalent open-loop controllers.