Decree of the Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic No 37 / 1977 Coll.
Decree of the Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic on regional planning in the Slovak Socialist Republic
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GOVERNMENT REGULATION
Slovak Socialist Republic
of 25 May 1977
on regional planning in the Slovak Socialist Republic
The Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic hereby orders pursuant to Article 16 (3) of Act No. 145 / 1970 Coll., on National Economic Planning ("the Act '):
BASIC PROVISIONS
(1) The comprehensive and harmonious development of the areas is one of the decisive preconditions for an efficient, smooth and proportionate development of the national economy. The planned management of the development of areas ensures regional planning, which is an integral part of the nation's economic planning.
(2) Regional plans are an essential tool for managing the development of areas.
Regional planning shall focus on the following main objectives and tasks:
(a) the achievement of a rational regional structure of the national economy;
(b) the identification and development of basic functions to be performed by each area in the context of the need for the development of socialist social division of labour and resulting from the natural and economic conditions of the areas and from the approved housing structure;
(c) creating balanced economic and social proportions in the regional organisation of production and non-production sectors and in environmental care;
(d) to guide the rational development of settlements, in particular by the deployment of housing and civil and technical facilities;
(e) rational deployment of sectors, disciplines and activities with regard to the specific conditions and resources of each area in order to create conditions, in particular, for effective territorial specialisation, cooperation and production management;
(f) an assessment of the degree of economic and social level of each area and the determination of the prospective objectives of their development;
(g) addressing the regional balance of resources and labour needs, their skills, age and biological structures, the distribution of youth and the regulation of migration of the population.
REGIONAL PLANS
System of regional plans
(1) The regional plans are part of the State plans for the development of the national economy of the Slovak Socialist Republic. In view of the length of the planning period, it shall be subdivided into:
(a) long-term prospects for the development of areas;
(b) medium-term regional plans;
(c) implementing regional plans.
(2) The long-term prospects for the development of areas are set out in the guidelines for a comprehensive and harmonious development of areas based on the interlinks between regional and sectoral development elements. An integral part of the long-term prospects for development of areas is the assessment of the needs and resources of economic development and the determination of the stage and coordinated follow-up in the implementation of the projects of development and construction of areas.
(3) The medium-term regional plans shall specify the regional proportionality of the objectives and tasks in the development of individual sectors of the national economy and shall determine the ways and procedures to ensure the comprehensive development of the economy of the areas. The medium-term regional plans are based on the long-term prospects for the development of the areas and guidelines for drawing up the medium-term state plan for the development of the national economy of the Slovak Socialist republity.1)
(4) The implementation plans specify the tasks of the medium-term regional plans mainly on the labour force and investment construction, including housing. In doing so, they are based on the guidelines for the development of the National Economy Implementation Plan of the Slovak Socialist Republic.
Regional planning
(1) The development of regional plans shall be based on the principle of consistency between national, regional and economic plans, which shall be ensured mainly by the systematic exchange of information, confrontations and unification of the opinions of all institutions and organisations involved in the planning process.
(2) The regional plans include tasks, limits and indicators for the activities of the authorities and organisations in the area concerned; they also contain economic instruments differentiated according to the conditions of the sector, sectors and areas.
(3) The basic elements for the establishment of regional plans are:
(a) sub-studies and concepts of area development;
(b) analyses of the current and proposed levels of use of the natural and economic resources of each area, conditions and barriers to their further rational development;
(c) regional balance, in particular:
1. the population, the resources of the labour force and the youth and their distribution;
2. housing fund,
3. the territorial distribution and use of building capacities linked to investment construction;
(d) measures and decisions to regulate employment;
(e) decisions to deploy investment actions;
(f) measures and decisions to deploy housing by user and territory;
(g) specific sectoral and sectoral concepts, considerations and analyses on the state and development of the sector in areas and proposals for economic plans;
(h) approved settlement structure;
(i) land planning documentation and land planning documents.
Regional planning units
(1) The basic territorial unit of regional planning is the territory of the region.
(2) For the preparation of certain species or parts of regional plans, the breakdown by district or by selected location, including its catchment area, or by industrial or residential conurbations, may be used.
(3) In individual cases determined by the Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic, regional plans are also drawn up for other territorial units.
STABILITY OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS IN THE REGIONAL PLAN PROCESS
Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic
The Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic, in accordance with the basic guidelines of regional policy established by the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic2)
(a) it shall:
1. principles for the development of individual areas;
2. principles for the guidelines for the distribution of industries and sectors in the territory of the Slovak Socialist Republic and in its various areas;
3. the conditions of the regional subsidy policy and the amounts of the subsidy,
(b) approve, as part of the State plans for the development of the national economy of the Slovak Socialist Republic, the draft regional plans.
Slovak Planning Commission
The Slovak Planning Commission ensures the regional proportionality of the development of the national economy in the territory of the Slovak Socialist Republic.
To that end,
(a) carry out an analysis of the economic development in the various areas of the Slovak Socialist Republic;
(b) propose to the Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic the principles of the development of areas and measures to implement them;
(c) draw up and submit to the Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic, as part of the draft State plan for the development of the national economy of the Slovak Socialist Republic, proposals for regional plans, including proposals for economic instruments;
(d) issue guidelines on the development of regional plans following a uniform methodology for the development of state plans, 3)
(e) coordinate the activities of the central authorities of the Slovak Socialist Republic, as well as the Regional National Committees and the National Committee of the Slovak Socialist Republic of Bratislava (hereinafter the "Regional National Committees") on the regional planning section;
(f) express its views on the basis of specific rules on the distribution of production forces (in particular investment and labour) and issue binding opinions, 4)
(g) in cooperation with the Slovak Statistical Office, organise checks on the implementation of regional plans.
Central authorities, central management and socialist organisations
(1) The central and central management authorities (5) ensure rational and effective development in the economic plans of the organisations managed by them in areas consistent with the regional plans.
To that end,
(a) discuss with the Slovak Planning Commission and the relevant regional national committees the development tasks of the organisations managed by them in each area, in particular proposals for the deployment of production forces and the development of employment and requirements for the development of the non-productive sector;
(b) draw up, to the extent specified by the guidelines, proposals for their economic plans broken down by area and submit them to the Slovak Planning Commission and the relevant Regional National Committees;
(c) carry out, at the same time as the breakdown of the tasks of the State Plan, a breakdown of the tasks of the Regional Plan and submit the selected indicators to the extent set out in the guidelines of the Slovak Planning Commission and the Regional National Committees.
(2) The authorities referred to in paragraph 1 and the socialist organisations shall submit to the Slovak Planning Commission and the Regional National Committees methodological guidelines, as appropriate, as agreed or agreed by the Slovak Planning Commission, the requested supporting documents for drawing up proposals for long-term prospects for the development of areas.
Regional National Committees
(1) Regional National Committees
(a) ensure the regional proportionality of the development of the economy on their territory;
(b) in accordance with the political and economic guidelines of the Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic, develop comprehensive proposals for long-term prospects for development of areas, proposals for medium-term regional plans and implementation plans and submit them to the Slovak Planning Commission;
(c) issue decisions on the regulation of employment and the distribution of labour, the distribution of buildings and the distribution of housing, on the basis of specific rules, 6)
(d) establish the conditions for implementing the approved settlement structure; develop proposals for the economic structure of locations of peripheral importance and their indicative size;
(e) check the performance of the tasks of the regional plans.
(2) The Regional National Committees provide basic background for the development of regional plans, in particular:
(a) analyses of natural and economic conditions and resources;
(b) analyses of the development of production and non-production sectors within the region;
(c) analyses of the state and development of the economic and social level;
(d) analyses of the development of the settlement structure;
(e) regional balance sheets, in particular:
1. the population, the resources of the labour force and the youth and their distribution;
2. housing fund,
3. the territorial distribution and use of building capacities linked to investment construction;
(f) indicators of area development and summaries of these indicators (pasports).
Regional National Committees
(1) Regional National Committees
(a) cooperate with the Regional National Committees to draft regional plans;
(b) develop long-term prospects of regional development for the territory of the counties or, where appropriate, their smaller territorial units;
(c) participate in the implementation of the approved settlement structure; develop proposals for economic development and indicative centres of local importance,
(d) check the performance of the tasks of the regional plans in their territory;
(e) conduct the pasports and surveys of regional economic and social development indicators.
(2) The Regional National Committees participate in the processing of:
(a) analyses of natural and economic conditions and resources;
(b) analyses of the development of non-production sectors in the district and proposals for further development;
(c) analyses of the development of the settlement structure;
(d) regional balance sheets;
(e) other basic starting materials for the establishment of regional plans to be determined by the Regional National Committee.
COMMON AND FINAL PROVISIONS
(1) Slovak Planning Commission and Regional National Committees to carry out their tasks in the area of regional planning
(a) require central authorities, central management bodies and socialist organisations to draw up draft regional plans to provide information and evidence on the current and planned development of individual sectors, disciplines and zoning activities by area, 7)
(b) discuss with the central authorities and central management bodies the development tasks of their managed socialist organisations relating to the overall development of the economy in the region, in particular as regards the preparation of important investment projects and measures relating to the deployment of establishments and establishments and changes in the employment of the population; similar negotiations are held with socialist organisations, 8)
(c) provide the central authorities, central management bodies and socialist organisations with the documents and information necessary for their activities in terms of economic development of the areas. 9)
(2) The relevant provisions of the law apply to the participation of workers and other citizens in the creation, security and control of the implementation of regional plans and the forms of security, control of implementation and amendments thereto. 10)
This Regulation shall not apply to tasks included in specific parts of State plans, in particular those on the defence and security sectors. 11)
The scope and method of identifying socio-economic information for the purposes of regional planning and monitoring the implementation of regional plans shall be governed by specific rules. 12)
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication.
Dr Colotka v. r.
1) Paragraph 16 (1) (d) of the Act.
2) The status and competence of the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the State Planning Commission in the regional planning process are derived from the law.
3) Paragraph 18 (1) (a) of the Law.
4) E.g. Decree of the Federal Ministry of Technical and Investment Development No. 163 / 1973 Coll., on documentation of buildings.
5) Paragraph 2 (2) of the Act.
6) For example Decree No. 163 / 1973 Coll., on documentation of buildings, Government Decree No. 92 / 1958 Coll., implementing Act No. 70 / 1958 Coll., on the tasks of enterprises and national committees in the field of labour care.
7) § 19 (2), (3), (5), § 20 (4), § 21 (3) of the Act.
8) Articles 19 (5), 20 (4), 21 (3) of the Act and 68 (4) (a) of Act No. 69 / 1967 Coll., on National Committees, as amended.
9) Paragraph 22 (2) of the Act.
10) § 2 (1), § 20 (4), § 21 (2), § 23 to 29, § 30 (1) of the Act.
11) Article 31 of the Act.
12) E.g. § 7, 8, 14 of Act No. 21 / 1971 Coll., on the Single System of Social Economic Information, and Act No. 41 / 1972 Coll., on the Jurisdiction of the authorities of the Slovak Socialist Republic in the field of Social Economic Information.
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| Citation | Decree of the Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic No. 37 / 1977 Coll., on Regional Planning in the Slovak Socialist Republic |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 17.06.1977 |
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| Effective from | 17.06.1977 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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