Decree of the Government of the Czech Socialist Republic No. 154 / 1973 Coll.

Ordinance of the Government of the Czech Socialist Republic specifying the responsibilities and tasks of district and regional agricultural administrations and their relationship with national committees

Valid Effective from 01.01.1974
154
GOVERNMENT REGULATION
Czech Socialist Republic
of 5 December 1973
specifying the responsibilities and tasks of district and regional agricultural administrations and their relationship with national committees
The Government of the Czech Socialist Republic orders according to § 16 paragraph 1 of Act No. 37 / 1972 Coll., on District and Regional Agricultural Administrations:

ČÁST I

Scope and tasks of district agricultural administrations
§ 1
The Regional Agricultural Administration shall manage and ensure the development of agricultural production and agricultural services for the organisations referred to in Article 2 of the Act (hereinafter referred to as "managed organisations') in accordance with the needs and interests of the company expressed in the national economic plans with a particular focus on deepening the concentration and specialisation of agricultural production.
§ 2
The district agricultural administration within the scope of Article 1 shall perform the following tasks within its territory:
(a) in the planning process
1. develop long-term concepts, proposals for medium-term and implementing plans for the development of agricultural production and agricultural services, including analyses and justifications, submit them to the Regional Agricultural Administration, and to other bodies according to specific regulations,
2. carry out a systematic analysis of the state and development of the agricultural sector of the managed organisation; ensure that internal resources and reserves are detected and used effectively;
3. outlines to managed organisations the tasks assigned to it by the Regional Agricultural Administration in the planning process;
4. organise and methodically manage the development of medium-term and implementing economic plans in managed organisations;
5. Verifies that the economic plans of the managed organisations ensure the objectives and tasks of the State plans and their breakdown;
6. Directs the management of economic processes in managed organisations to ensure, in particular, the tasks arising from state plans;
7. Organises the implementation of plans for the development of agricultural production and agricultural services and checks how these plans are implemented in managed organisations;
(b) on the economic
1. Provides the use of economic instruments for the development of agricultural production and agricultural services (including financial reserves), in particular providing special-purpose subsidies and State budget subsidies to managed organisations, controls their application and evaluates their effectiveness; carry out the financial settlement of the funds provided for the previous year and submit a report to the Regional Agricultural Administration on the whole of its activities on this section,
2. Expresses its views on the proposals for the inclusion of the cadastral territories of municipalities in natural habitats and on the proposals for the inclusion of state goods in production groups;
3. be responsible for the proper distribution of economic results in managed organisations;
4. Helps the economically lagging organisations they manage to ensure their economic stability;
5. organise and assist in the implementation and deepening of in-house planning and the identification of own costs, so that management organisations use own-cost analyses to make agricultural production more efficient and reduce their own production costs;
6. Expresses its views on proposals managed by organisations for changes in the organisation of the agricultural land fund and on transfers of agricultural land between organisations,
7. Working on rationalising the development of agricultural production and agricultural services and ensuring the efficient use of investment and other resources;
8. Organises and directs cooperation and integration in its district in order to develop agricultural production; ensuring that the conclusion of cooperative agreements (1) is preceded by a reasoned economic analysis and that contracts are socially beneficial and economically beneficial to cooperative organisations;
9. organise and carry out quarterly and comprehensive annual analyses of the management of managed organisations;
(c) on the price section
1. examine the proposals (calculations, etc.) of managed organisations for the fixing of prices of products, works and services and submit them with its opinion to the Regional Agricultural Administration;
2. keep an overview of prices registered with the relevant price authorities as well as price decisions issued by those authorities;
(d) on the labour economy
1. ensure the regulation of the development of labour pay and monitor compliance with the principles of labour pay in managed organisations;
2. ensure the application of sectoral labour consumption standards and standards in managed organisations;
3. Develop and ensure the implementation of the concept of material interest on the specific conditions of managed organisations;
(e) in the field of a single system of socio-economic information,
1. directly acts and oversees the status of the information system of the managed organisations, compliance with the uniform methodology and the correct and timely performance of their reporting obligations;
2. ensure the implementation of the single information system methodology in accordance with the specific conditions of the managed organisations and ensure that it is consistently respected;
3. centrates, processes and evaluates the socio-economic information (including national and sectoral one-off, exceptional and seasonal investigations) collected through it;
4. carry out periodic operational and comprehensive analyses for agricultural production, purchase and services in terms of production and economic performance; organise also the division activities of managed organisations;
5. cooperate with the national statistics authorities, financial authorities, national committees and other authorities in the inventories and other statistical surveys;
6. Provides for managed organisations the removal of defects identified by them or brought to the attention of the Regional Agricultural Administration and, where appropriate, statistical, financial and other control bodies;
7. Maintains records, registers and pasports of basic production and economic indicators over longer periods of time;
(f) on the agricultural production development section
1. organise a continuous increase in agricultural production on the basis of economic plans, in particular by applying concentration and specialisation;
2. ensure that the production of grain and feed is increased, including the creation of the necessary reserves, in particular by leading the managed organisation to use the executive varieties, the means of nutrition and plant protection and other intensification deposits; propose and organise effective measures in the field of agrotechnology, plant protection and nutrition, including the development of services and activities on this section. In doing so, it shall cooperate with the Central Audit and Examination Institute of the Agricultural,
3. ensure qualitative analyses of plant products, soil and material needs and ensure that the results of such analyses are used in managed organisations to increase production and its efficiency;
4. Care for improving the performance of livestock, in particular by leading the managed organisation to the efficient use of feed and by organising appropriate zootechnical measures and animal health care;
5. coordinate zootechnical, veterinary and breeding care;
(g) on the section of technical development and investment
1. ensure the application of state technical and investment policy in managed organisations and ensure the use of the latest knowledge of science and technology, in particular large production technologies; while ensuring the implementation of more perfect forms of organisation of work and management of agricultural production and ensuring the advisory activities for managed organisations on this section,
2. Provides for the performance of the tasks arising from the rules on industrial rights in managed organisations, 2.
3. discuss and assess the preparatory and project documentation of the buildings, assess the Czechoslovak selection of the buildings in cooperation with the State Bank, give consent to the launch of the buildings pursuant to the Specific Regulations (3), verify and approve the lists of buildings subsidised by the State Budget and participate in the technical economic evaluation of the buildings,
4. Approves project documentation of buildings to the extent defined by the relevant regulations, 4)
5. Checks to ensure that the rules, in particular the building rules, documentation of buildings and the registration of real estate, are complied with in the case of special-purpose and residential investment;
6. Expresses itself on the requirements of managed organisations for the allocation of balance sheet machinery and technological equipment in terms of the objectives of the development of agricultural production and agricultural services;
(h) on the materially technical supply section
1. draw up documentation to ensure the needs of centrally managed machinery and materials;
2. Distributes centrally managed machinery and materials, including the central feed fund and seed and seed from balance sheet reserves, to the controlled organisations as instructed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition and Regional Agricultural Administration;
ch) on the supply-customer relationship section
coordinate supply-customer relationships of managed organisations with particular regard to the needs of food industry organisations and provide the necessary assistance for those organisations;
(i) on the section on fertilisation and use of agricultural land
1. Organises and ensures the design and implementation of land-use arrangements as instructed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition;
2. Organises the reclamation of agricultural land, ensures the use of land reserves, is responsible for the cost-effective use of the funds provided for this purpose by the State Fund for the Narrowing of Soil and participates in the technical economic evaluation of mellioration actions;
3. examine the applications, discuss and propose the conditions for granting subsidies and loans from the State Fund for Land Narrowing, provide the necessary supporting documents (including evaluation of proposals and selection procedures) for actions taken from the Fund's resources;
j) on the section of cadre and personnel work, education and care for workers
1. apply the principles of cadre and personnel work in managed organisations and ensure, in accordance with them, the selection, education, evaluation and effective deployment of personnel, including the cadre reserves;
2. keeps records of workers, ensures the reporting of mandatory indicators of uniform records of workers;
3. Care for reproduction of labour, plans the need for skilled workers, takes care of youth acquisition, organises training and further training of workers,
4. ensure that practical training of pupils and apprentices is provided in managed organisations;
5. Ensuring the development of workers' initiative and activity and their participation in management, in particular through socialist competition; ensure the development of the improvement movement, the use of its results in practice and provides the necessary assistance to managed organisations on this section,
6. manage and coordinate the care of workers, including safety and health at work;
7. ensure the creation of an appropriate working and environmental environment in managed organisations;
8. ensure that controlled organisations at places with concentrated agricultural production participate in the investment construction of nurseries, nursery schools, or other health and cultural facilities;
(k) in the area of legal aid, provide legal assistance to managed organisations, in particular for the protection of property in socialist property, in supply-customer relations, in employment relationships including safety and health at work, in the field of legal relations with land and other property, the protection of the agricultural land fund and in the field of agricultural cooperatives;
(l) on the control section
1. carry out control activities in managed organisations in order to respect socialist legality and state discipline, in particular in the areas of planning, wage, price, financial, contractual and management and protection of property in socialist property; if it finds that the legislation has been infringed, it shall give the competent authority an incentive to exercise material, disciplinary or criminal liability or, where appropriate, to take other measures to remedy it by virtue of legislation;
2. checks how the managed organisation performs the tasks arising from the rules on safety and health at work;
3. carry out operational and thematic examinations in managed organisations for the performance of their tasks, where appropriate on the basis of requests from authorised authorities, 5)
4. Handles complaints, notifications and initiatives of workers under the Specific Regulations (6) and oversees the timely and proper handling of complaints in managed organisations;
5. carry out, in accordance with the Specific Regulations (7), periodic reviews of the management of managed state economic organisations;
6. Checks whether the review committee of managed cooperative organisations carries out its tasks and whether the accounts are properly kept in those organisations;
7. carry out, on the basis of the knowledge of its own and, where appropriate, of the district financial administrations, revisions to the management of the funds provided to managed cooperative organisations for the development of agricultural production and agricultural services from the State budget or from the State funds;
8. Methodically manages and directs the activities of the review committees managed by cooperative organisations and control bodies managed by state organisations, carries out advisory activities for them and makes use of their knowledge;
(m) in the State defence sector, the protection of state, economic and professional secrets and fire protection, it shall ensure the tasks arising from the State defence rules, the protection of state, economic and professional secrets and fire protection, and ensure that the managed organisations carry out the tasks arising from those rules.
§ 3
The Regional Agricultural Administration shall also carry out activities arising from the Specific Regulations (8) for the production of agricultural administrations and district agricultural associations.
§ 4
Relationship of the district agricultural administration to managed cooperative organisations
(1) In the exercise of its management powers, the Regional Agricultural Administration shall apply consistency between the principles of State economic governance and cooperative democracy. To this end, it shall discuss measures concerning managed cooperative organisations with the authorities of those organisations, shall rely on them in its activities and shall ensure consistency between the interests of cooperative organisations and those of the social ones with the broadest participation of cooperatives.
(2) In the exercise of its management powers, the Regional Agricultural Administration ensures the development of cooperative democracy and the increase of cooperative initiative in the management of cooperative organisations, the deepening of material interest in production results and the promotion of improved forms of remuneration.
§ 5
Responsibility for the activities of the district agricultural administration
The Director of the Regional Agricultural Administration shall be responsible for the performance of the tasks and for the proper performance of the activities of the Regional Agricultural Administration of the Regional Agricultural Administration.

ČÁST II

Scope and tasks of regional agricultural administrations
§ 6
The Regional Agricultural Administration shall manage and ensure the development of agricultural production and agricultural services in the region in accordance with the needs and interests of society expressed in the national economic plans.
§ 7
Within the scope of Article 6, the Regional Agricultural Administration shall carry out the following tasks:
(a) in the planning process
1. develop long-term concepts, proposals for medium-term and implementing plans for the development of agricultural production and agricultural services in the region, including analyses and justifications, submit them to the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition, and to other bodies according to specific regulations,
2. carry out a systematic analysis of the state and development of agriculture in the region; ensure that internal resources and reserves are detected and used effectively;
3. organise and methodically manage the development of medium-term and implementation plans for the development of agricultural production and agricultural services by district agricultural administrations;
4. outlines the tasks of the plan and the indicative indicators laid down by the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition for each district agricultural administration and directly managed organisations (Section 9 (2) of the Act),
5. Checks the implementation of agricultural production and services development plans for district agricultural administrations;
(b) on the economic
1. ensure the use of economic instruments within the region and monitor their contribution to the development of agricultural production and agricultural services; it also controls the provision of special-purpose subsidies and subsidies by district agricultural administrations,
2. to rationalise the development of agricultural production and agricultural services and to ensure that investment and other funds are used effectively within the region;
3. facilitate the development of cooperation and integration relations in the region in order to ensure the concentration and specialisation of agricultural production and the social division of labour between agricultural and food industry organisations; submit an opinion to the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition on the contracts for the establishment of a common agricultural (agrochemical) undertaking for which the approval of that Ministry is required in force, 9)
4. examine the proposals for the pricing of products, works and services (Article 2 (c) (1)) and submit them with its observations to the relevant price authority;
5. evaluate the application of the principles of remuneration for work in the county and analyse their effectiveness;
(c) in the area of a single system of socio-economic information
1. operate and supervise the activities of district agricultural administrations in increasing the level of socio-economic information managed by their organisations;
2. Organises the activities of district agricultural administrations in implementing the single information system methodology;
3. centrates, processes and evaluates the socio-economic information identified through it;
4. concentrate the supporting documents and process periodic operational and comprehensive analyses for agricultural production, purchase and services in terms of production and economic performance; regularly evaluate the breakdown activity and control of the implementation of the plan for agricultural production and agricultural services;
5. Provides, through district agricultural administrations, the removal of defects which it has itself identified for organisations managed by it or which have been brought to the attention of statistical, financial and other control authorities;
6. cooperate with national statistics, financial authorities and other authorities in extraordinary statistical and other investigations;
(d) in the agricultural production development sector, it shall assist regional agricultural administrations in the development of agricultural production, in particular in increasing the production of cereals and feed, including the creation of the necessary reserves, in increasing the performance of livestock and in organising and coordinating the zootechnical, veterinary and breeding services;
(e) technical development and investment construction
1. Helps regional agricultural administrations to implement national technical and investment policy and the latest knowledge of science and technology in their managed organisations and to check how district agricultural administrations perform these tasks;
2. ensure the implementation of investment policy within the region in accordance with specific rules;
3. controls compliance with the regulations, in particular on the construction rules, documentation of buildings and the registration of real estate,
4. Expresses itself on the requirements of district agricultural administrations for the allocation of balance sheet machinery and technological equipment in terms of the objectives of the development of agricultural production and agricultural services;
(f) on the material technical supply and customer relations section
1. produce documentation to ensure the needs of centrally managed machinery and materials in the region;
2. Distributes centrally managed machinery and materials, including a central feed fund, and seed and seed from balance-sheet reserves, to district agricultural administrations as instructed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition;
3. coordinate supply-customer relations within the region;
g) on the section of cadre and personnel work, education and care for workers
1. ensure the application of the principles of cadre and personnel work and, in accordance with them, directs and controls the selection, education, evaluation and effective deployment of workers, including the cadre reserves;
2. Coordinates and methodically manages the application of the principles of cadre registration and single records of workers;
3. ensure reproduction of the workforce, prepare plans for the needs of skilled workers, methodically guide youth acquisition, training and further training of workers;
4. Directs the development of workers' initiative and activity and their participation in management; assist in the development of the improvement movement and use of its results in practice;
5. manage and coordinate the care of workers, including safety and health at work;
(h) in the legal assistance section, provide legal assistance to district agricultural administrations, coordinate and methodically manage their activities on that section;
(ch) on the control section
1. Checks the activities of district agricultural administrations, in particular as regards compliance with regulations on safety and health at work, national economic planning, wage, price, financial, national property management and other regulations; if it finds that the legislation has been infringed, it shall give the competent authority an incentive to exercise material, disciplinary or criminal liability or, where appropriate, to take other measures to remedy it by virtue of legislation;
2. carry out periodic farm reviews for district agricultural administrations;
(i) State defence, state, economic and professional secrecy and fire protection
ensure the tasks arising from the regulations on State protection, on the protection of state, economic and professional secrecy and on fire protection, and control how district agricultural administrations perform the tasks laid down by those regulations.
§ 8
The Regional Agricultural Administration shall exercise the same jurisdiction as the Regional Agricultural Administration vis-à-vis the Socialist Agricultural Organisations, the management of which has been entrusted to it by the Minister for Agriculture and Nutrition under Article 9 (2) of the Act.
§ 9
Responsibility for the activities of the Regional Agricultural Administration
The Director of the Regional Agricultural Administration shall be responsible for carrying out the tasks and proper performance of the Regional Agricultural Administration of the Minister for Agriculture and Nutrition.

ČÁST III

Relationship of regional and regional agricultural administrations to national committees
§ 10
(1) Regional and regional agricultural administrations (hereinafter referred to as "agricultural administrations") discuss their long-term concepts and proposals for medium-term and implementation plans, including the requirements for the provision of agricultural needs and services, which the national committees provide directly. These concepts and plans serve as a basis for the national committees to organise the planned development of economic, cultural, health and social construction on their territory.
(2) Agricultural administrations in planning works are based on binding opinions of the Regional National Committee.
§ 11
(1) Agricultural administrations shall cooperate with national committees in the exercise of their responsibilities. In the framework of this cooperation, the agricultural administration shall in particular:
(a) in the field of protection of the agricultural land fund, give opinions on applications for approval of proposals for territorial plans and applications for the withdrawal of agricultural land from agricultural production;
(b) in the field of plant protection, cooperate in checking that users of land and, where appropriate, users of plant or plant origin warehouses carry out protection and measures against pests, plant diseases and weeds and give an opinion on applications for consent to the felling of healthy grown fruit trees in integrated plantings and to grubbing up of healthy vineyards;
(c) in the field of veterinary care, cooperate in the security of its tasks and in the supervision of those tasks, in the organisation of measures to combat diseases and other animal diseases and in the implementation of measures to ensure the health of foodstuffs and raw materials of animal origin;
(d) in the field of agricultural cooperatives, cooperate in the implementation of surveillance (10) on the activities of uniform agricultural cooperatives and in the persuasion of cooperative authorities (11) in order to correct their defective resolutions and measures;
(e) in the field of hunting, they shall comment on applications for the authorisation of the reduction of game stocks where such reduction is in the interest of agricultural production;
(f) in the field of fisheries, they shall give an opinion on the proposals for establishing the investor's obligation to build a replacement pond and on the allocation of ponds used insufficiently - in the absence of national property - in the free use of the socialist organisation.
(2) Agricultural administrations provide the national committees with the necessary documentation for regional plans.
(3) The Regional Agricultural Administration is working closely with the national committees to ensure agricultural production for individual farmers and, to this end, draws up relevant documents for the national committees.
§ 12
(1) Agricultural administrations cooperate with national committees to ensure the development of agricultural production and agricultural services in managed organisations. Such cooperation shall also aim to ensure consistency of agricultural growth with the overall development of the territorial districts of the national committees.
(2) Agricultural administrations take advantage of the initiatives of the national committees and examine their deficiencies identified in the managed organisations, remedy and report to the national committees.
(3) The District National Committee has expressed its views on the proposal to appoint the Director of the Regional Agricultural Administration and the Regional National Committee to appoint the Director of the Regional Agricultural Administration.

ČÁST IV

§ 13
Final provisions
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1974.
Korcák v. r.
1) Contracts concluded by organisations on all forms of cooperative relations shall be subject to approval pursuant to § 3 (1) and § 8 (5) of Decree No. 2 / 1972 Coll., on cooperative relations in the development of specialisation and concentration of agricultural production.
2) Act No. 84 / 1972 Coll., on discoveries, inventions, improvements and industrial designs.
3) Decree No. 17 / 1970 Coll., on the granting of consent to the opening of buildings, and the Guidelines of the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition on Decree No. 17 / 1970 Coll. of 15 April 1970, Reg. P-11 / 1970.
4) Guidelines of the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition on Assessment, State expertise and approval of preparatory and project documentation of buildings in the agriculture and nutrition sector published in the Ministry Bulletin, No 13-14 / 1971, No 31.
5) Decree No 75 / 1959 of the Ú. l., which gives methodological guidance on control activities (Part VIII).
6) Government Decree No 150 / 1958 of the Ú. l., on the handling of complaints, notices and incentives of workers.
7) Decree No. 163 / 1971 Coll., on the conduct of periodic revisions of the economy.
8) For example, § 17, § 25 (2) of Act No. 61 / 1964 Coll., on the Development of Plant Production, § 2, § 3 (1), § 4 (1), § 8 (2) and § 13 (3) of Act No. 53 / 1966 Coll., on the Protection of the Agricultural Soil Fund, § 3 and 4 of Decree No. 170 / 1964 Coll., on the development of supplements and amendments to the Statutes of Single Agricultural Cooperatives, their approval and registration, Article 1 (2) and (6) of Decree No. 45 / 1969 Coll., on certain measures on turnover tax and payroll tax.
9) Paragraph 8 (6) of Decree No 2 / 1972 Coll.
10) Paragraph 55 (1) (a) of Act No. 49 / 1959 Coll., on Uniform Agricultural Cooperatives.
11) § 56 of Act No. 49 / 1959 Coll.

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CitationDecree of the Government of the Czech Socialist Republic No. 154 / 1973 Coll., which further define the scope and tasks of district and county agricultural administrations and their relationship with national committees
Regulation Type-
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CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation06.12.1973
Effective from01.01.1974
Effective until-
Status Valid
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