Act No. 101 / 1971 Coll.
Law on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the years 1971 to 1975 (Act on the Five Years Plan)
Valid
Effective from 20.10.1971
101
THE LAW
of 7 October 1971
on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the years 1971-1975
(Fifth Five-Year Plan Act)
Based on the results achieved in the development of the national economy and on the guidelines of the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia to the fifth five-year National Economy Development Plan for the years 1971- 1975
The Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decided on this law:
This Act sets out the basic objectives and guidelines of the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the years 1971-1975 (hereinafter referred to as the "Five-Year Plan ') and the conditions for its implementation, which are a binding directive for the management of the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the Governments of the Republics, the Central and Other Authorities of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the economic activities of the Socialist organisations.
Basic objectives and guidelines of the fifth five-year plan
(1) The main objective of the fifth five-year plan is to ensure, in line with the socialist way of life, greater satisfaction of the needs and further strengthening of the life security of the population while strengthening the socialist state and its defensibility.
(2) The main way and condition of the planned development of the Czechoslovak national economy, aimed at achieving the stated objective, is to continuously increase the nation's economic efficiency. In particular, all economic growth factors will be strengthened, the accumulated reserves will be used, management levels increased and the natural and economic conditions of both Republics will be widely exploited. The authorities of all economic management and socialist organisations are therefore obliged to ensure the more efficient use of the production base and the skills and qualifications of workers, to support and use the further development of science and technology as one of the key factors in the development of the national economy, to continue the concentration and specialisation of production and to progressively change its structure and to develop more intensively international socialist economic integration, particularly with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
(3) The economic development of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic aims to further expand the materially technical base of socialism and consolidate socialist production relations. Comprehensive socialist rationalisation is a decisive method of planning and mobilising reserves as an integral part of the creation and implementation of national economic plans.
(4) The development of individual sectors of the national economy will be oriented to ensure that national income growth is 28% by 1975 and that at least 95% of this increase is achieved by the growth of social productivity.
(5) Implementation of the objectives and guidelines of the fifth five-year plan will significantly contribute to further balancing economic and social disparities between the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic; the Slovak Socialist Republic's share of the created social product of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic will increase from 26% in 1970 to at least 28% in 1975.
(1) The volume of industrial production will increase by at least 34% by 1975, of which 27% in the Czech Socialist Republic and 55% in the Slovak Socialist Republic. The increase in production will mainly be achieved by labour productivity growth of at least 30%.
(2) In individual industrial sectors, the following development (expressed in terms of increase in gross production volume) shall be ensured at least by 1975:
| a) v těžbě a zušlechťování uhlí | o 13 %, |
| b) ve výrobě tepla a elektřiny | o 43 %, |
| c) v hutnictví železných a neželezných kovů | o 27 %, |
| d) ve strojírenské výrobě | o 45 %, |
| e) v chemické výrobě | o 55 %, |
| f) ve výrobě spotřebního průmyslu | o 30 %, |
| g) ve výrobě stavebních hmot a dílců | o 47 %, |
| h) ve výrobě potravinářského průmyslu | o 16 %. |
(3) In 1975, at least 62 billion kWh of electricity, 14 million tonnes of steel, 500 thousand tonnes of plastic, 1 million tonnes of clean nutrients of industrial fertilisers and 9,9 million tonnes of cement are produced.
(4) Development support programmes will be carried out in priority order in engineering; This will create conditions for improving the structure of engineering production.
(1) Gross agricultural production will increase by around 14% by 1975, of which 13% in the Czech Socialist Republic and 16% in the Slovak Socialist Republic. For the period of the fifth five-year plan, at least 41 million tonnes of cereals shall be produced and the purchase of slaughter animals shall be at least 1260 000 tonnes in 1975.
(2) The total volume of carriage of goods will increase by at least 20% over the period of the fifth five-year plan and the total public transport of persons by around 6%.
(3) In connections, the share of automation of interurban telephone traffic will increase to 45% by 1975 and the construction of the second television programme and colour television network will continue; for the period of the fifth five-year plan, another about 430 thousand telephone stations will be submitted.
(4) The volume of construction works from the supplier's construction organisations will increase by around 38% until 1975, 37% in the Czech Socialist Republic and 40% in the Slovak Socialist Republic.
(1) The total turnover of foreign trade will be developed at a higher rate than the national income by 1975, with the turnover of socialist states growing faster than the total turnover of Czechoslovak foreign trade.
(2) The development of Czechoslovak external economic relations will primarily be based on the effective development of international socialist economic integration with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other Member States of the Council of mutual economic assistance.
(3) The exchange of goods with capitalist states will continue to expand on the basis of mutual equality and benefit.
The scope of investment construction will increase by at least 35% against the period of the fourth five-year plan, of which construction works by around 33% and machinery by around 37%.
(1) In line with the growth of national income and the creation of tangible resources, personal and social consumption of the population will develop. The real income of workers will be further increased, the socialist principles of remuneration will be strengthened, in particular the dependency between work done and earnings, increasing care for the working environment and strengthening social security for the population. The housing problem and the development of basic resources in the non-productive sphere will be dealt with more quickly to create conditions for environmental improvement.
(2) The growth in real money income of the population will be secured by around 5% on average per year. At about the same rate, retail turnover and the volume of services paid by the population will increase. The stabilisation of the internal market will be ensured and changes in the structure of consumption will be gradually promoted.
(3) In all forms of construction it will be built in the period of the fifth five-year plan at least 500 thousand flats, of which in the Czech Socialist Republic 325 thousand and in the Slovak Socialist Republic 175 thousand.
(4) A comprehensive health care system for the population will be built up, ordering and waiting times for examination and treatment will be shortened and the supply of medicinal products to the population will be improved. Conditions will be created for further education growth, for material provision and modernisation of education and for deepening care for the young generation.
(5) Old-age pensions will be increased and the pension system and the system of measures to improve population development and increase support for families with children and young marriages will be improved.
Conditions for the implementation of the fifth five-year plan
The implementation of the basic objectives and guidelines of the fifth five-year plan shall be ensured in particular by:
(a) by consolidating and deepening the function of the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic as a binding basis for the economic and management activities of all institutions and socialist organisations, also expressing the principles of state scientific and economic policy and defining the use of the system of planned management and its instruments;
(b) by strengthening the role of the Federation State Budget as the basic financial plan of the Czechoslovak Federation, governing the main financial relations throughout the Federation, performing a decisive role in the redistribution of social financial resources in accordance with the objectives, guidelines and tasks of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic State Plan and pursuing effective economic efficiency in the use of social funds;
(c) strengthening the role of the monetary plan of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic as a basic instrument for the creation and distribution of credit resources and the issue of money and the creation and distribution of foreign exchange resources in accordance with the objectives and tasks of the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic;
(d) by purposely regulating wage developments, monitoring the consolidation of the principle of socialist labour pay and increasing social productivity, as well as by regulating labour distribution; the wage policy is planned to be managed on the basis of a uniform concept of wage development in order to ensure wage developments according to the proportions established by the national economic development plan and to promote economic development through wage systems;
(e) creating a system of prices that better express the socially needed amount of work spent on production; the system will aim at stabilising the overall level of wholesale prices and will apply a tendency to reduce them; in the case of consistent price regulation, prices will be used to promote economy, to stimulate technical development, to improve quality and to change the product mix effectively in line with national development plans; the stability of retail prices will also be ensured,
(f) ensuring a balance between the monetary and material aspects of the reproductive process, in particular in the development of state plans and the establishment and use of financial economic conditions governing, in particular, the financial relations between socialist organisations and the state budget, based on their tasks and the needs arising from the national plan for the development of the national economy;
(g) strengthening the planned management of investment construction, leading to increased efficiency and accountability on this section, shortening the construction time and meeting the budgetary costs of the buildings;
(h) by consolidating the planned management of the development of science and technology, in which the various stages of research and development activities are combined and the realisation of their results in production and other social practices;
(i) deepening and improving the cooperation and development of the socialist economic integration of the Member States of the Council of mutual economic assistance;
(j) the consistent use and improvement of the economic legislation system in accordance with the requirement to develop a system of planned management of the national economy, to consolidate legality at all stages of the procedure and to strengthen the role of economic contracts;
(k) the effective involvement of workers and social organisations, in particular the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, in the creation, provision, implementation and control of the fulfilment of national economic plans, as well as in the management and control of economic processes.
(1) Relations between the Federation State Budget and the Republic State Budget for the period of the fifth five-year plan will be based on the basic objectives, guidelines and tasks of the fifth five-year plan and the Republic's five-year plans.
(2) The federal budget is essentially surplus.
(3) Subsidies and subsidies from the State Budget of the Federation will be granted to the State budgets of the Republics in each year of the fifth five-year plan, to the extent that they are balanced in the light of the basic objectives, guidelines and tasks of the implementation of the State Plans and other tasks set out by the Federation authorities under their responsibility.
Final provisions
(1) The indicators of the fifth five-year plan, the State plans for the development of the national economy of the Republics for the years 1971-1975 and the implementing State plans, which will not be the nature of the tasks of the State Plan, will be broken down at lower levels of management in a manner determined by the State Planning Commission. The evaluation of derogations from these indicators and their breakdown shall form part of the monitoring of the fulfilment of the national economic plans. The economic management authorities are obliged to monitor these derogations when checking the implementation of the plan.
(2) The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the Republics will ensure that the basic objectives and guidelines set out in this Act are pursued and evaluated and that the draft national and economic implementation plans express the degree of security of the basic objectives and guidelines laid down by law. The State Planning Commission and, where appropriate, the Planning Committee of the Republics shall establish a method of verification of how the economic plans provide the objectives, tasks and other indicators of national development plans for the national economy.
(2) The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, or on the basis of its authorisation by the Government of the Republics, may, for the purposes of the experimental verification of new elements of the development of the system of planned management of the national economy, allow exemptions from the provisions of the laws governing the management of the national economy provided that the experiment has a limited scope, for a maximum period of three years, and that a comprehensive assessment of the results of the experiment will be carried out at this time, with conclusions for further action.
(1) The development of the national economy to be achieved by the end of 1975 is expressed in this law by comparison with the level reached in 1970.
(2) The implementation of the State Plan of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for 1971, established on the basis of Part I of Act No. 135 / 1970 Coll., on the objectives and main tasks of the State Plan for the Development of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and on the State Budget of the Czechoslovak Federation for 1971, is the implementation of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the fifth five-year plan.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 101 / 1971 Coll., on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the years 1971 to 1975 (Act on the Fifth Five-Year Plan) |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 20.10.1971 |
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| Effective from | 20.10.1971 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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