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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0733.00014.] The class of submanifolds \(M^ m\) in Euclidean space \(E^ n\) with parallel second fundamental form \(h\) of higher order \(S\) (i.e. \(\overline\nabla^{s+1}h=0\), \(\overline\nabla^ sh\neq 0\)) is investigated under some additional conditions imposed on \(M\) (\(M\) is flat and has flat normal connection). Such surfaces without additional restrictions were considered by F. Dillen in the cases \(m=2\) and \(m=n-1\). The main result is as follows: Theorem. There is a bijection between the following two sets: 1) the set of congruence classes of immersions \(i: U\to E^ n\), where \(U\) is a domain in \(E^ m\) and \(i(U)\) is a submanifold \(M^ m\) with flat \(\overline\nabla=\nabla\oplus\nabla^ \perp\) and parallel \(\overline\nabla^ sh\neq 0\), \(s\geq 1\), 2) the set of vector polynomials \(\chi: U\to E^{n-m}\) of degree \(s+2\) with the property that the indicatrix cone of \(\chi\) is a rectangular polyhedral cone at every point \(u\in U\). Here the indicatrix cone of \(\chi\) is the first normal space of the graph \(M^ m=\{(u,\chi(u))\mid u\in U\}\subset E^ n\) of the map \(\chi\).