Act No. 69 / 1976 Coll.
Act on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980 (Act on the Sixth Five-Year Plan)
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THE LAW
of 22 June 1976
on the National Economy Development Plan of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980
(Law of the Sixth Five-Year Plan)
Based on the results achieved in the development of the national economy and on the Sixth Convention of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia for the Economic and Social Development of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the years 1976- 1980, the Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decided on this law:
This Act sets out the basic objective and main tasks of the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980 (hereinafter referred to as the "Sixth 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 socialist organisations.
Basic objective and main tasks of the Sixth Five-Year Plan
The basic objective of the sixth five-year plan, based on the economic and social policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, is to ensure, in line with the deepening of the socialist way of life, the satisfaction of the growing physical and spiritual needs of the population and further strengthening of its living and social security on the basis of sustainable development and high efficiency of social production and the quality of all work.
In order to achieve this objective and to strengthen the Socialist State, the following main tasks shall be set out:
(a) ensure the smooth and proportional growth of social production, enabling the growing needs of society to cover, in particular, the continuous strengthening of the role of industry, the development of agricultural production and the rise of construction production, and to increase the national income created by more than 27% by 1980;
b) Ensure the development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic also by its greater involvement in international socialist economic integration;
(c) ensure effective growth in production and performance in all sectors of the national economy, in particular by increasing labour productivity, improving the quality of work, more efficient management and evaluation of all types of fuels and energy, materials and raw materials, feed and food, and faster application of the results of science and technology in practice; the increase in national income to cover approximately 91% of social productivity growth,
(d) make more intensive use of natural wealth and the agricultural land fund, increase its fertility and protect it; ensure the development of water resources,
(e) to take permanent care of the environment, in particular the conservation of nature and the protection of watercourses and air from pollution;
(f) make much better use of the production technical base, improve the quality, technical level and utility characteristics of production and ensure that the funds for investment activities are used in a highly efficient manner;
(g) to achieve a forward pace of growth in foreign trade turnover before national income growth and an advance of exports before import;
h) to focus scientific and technological development and the application of the results of science and technology to address decisive development objectives;
(i) orient the economic development of the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic to address the key problems of further proportional development of the single Czechoslovak economy and the growth of its efficiency; ensure that by 1980 an increase of 25% in the social product created in the Czech Socialist Republic and 35% in the Slovak Socialist Republic,
(j) to develop and further improve the management of the national economy in order to contribute more effectively to improving the efficiency of development, to mobilise reserves, to stimulate labour productivity growth, to improve the quality of production, creative power and to encourage workers' initiative.
The development of industrial production shall specify:
(a) increase by at least 33% the volume of industrial production by 1980, by 29% in the Czech Socialist Republic and by more than 43% in the Slovak Socialist Republic, based on the use of all production factors, in particular the production of technical bases and labour,
(b) to secure growth in the various industries by 1980, expressed in terms of increasing gross production:
| v palivech a energetice | o 20 % |
| v hutnictví | o 21 % |
| ve strojírenství | o 50 % |
| v chemickém průmyslu | o 37 % |
| ve spotřebním průmyslu | o 24 % |
| ve výrobě stavebních hmot | o 43 % |
| v potravinářském průmyslu | o 20 %, |
(c) promote progressive changes in production, mainly through the implementation of industrial development programmes; further strengthen the role of engineering and chemistry as the main holders of technical progress and develop the production of cutting-edge machinery and equipment,
(d) further develop the extraction and processing of raw materials of domestic origin and the use of secondary raw materials.
(1) The development of agricultural production provides for an increase in total agricultural production compared to the period 1971- 1975 by more than 14% in the Czech Socialist Republic by almost 13% and in the Slovak Socialist Republic by more than 18% in order to gradually achieve self-sufficiency in grain production.
(2) The development of the forestry sector provides for an increase in logging by around 6% by 1980, to continue rationalising the entire production process and to improve the comprehensive use of wood material.
(1) The development of transport is intended to increase the transport of goods by 23% by 1980 and the number of persons transported by more than 11%, to ensure coordinated development of transport modes and communication networks by better use of means of transport and further development of container transport systems; to increase the safety and culture of travel in passenger transport.
(2) The connections provide for the continuation of the automation of intercity telephone traffic throughout the territory of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the launch of 470 thousand new telephone stations and the extension of the broadcasting and transmission network of the second television programme.
(1) The total amount of investment is determined in such a way that the share of investment in the national income used does not exceed 33%. to concentrate the capacity of construction organisations and the supply of technological equipment in the required structure on construction, in particular in the case of critical investment actions, in order to achieve the planned tasks in the completion of construction and in the putting into service of the capacity within the specified deadlines.
(2) Construction production provides for an increase in the volume of construction works by 36% by 1980, 33% in the Czech Socialist Republic and 41% in the Slovak Socialist Republic.
External economic relations shall specify:
(a) increase the total turnover of foreign trade by 33% and ensure that the main carrier of export dynamics is the export of machinery and equipment;
(b) to engage the Czechoslovak economy more intensively in the international division of labour, in particular in international socialist economic integration and to develop comprehensive economic and scientific and technological cooperation with socialist countries, particularly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;
(c) to further expand mutually beneficial economic relations with advanced capitalist states on a long-term basis; making use of production and scientific and technological cooperation;
(d) to devote increased efforts to expanding long-term, stable and mutually beneficial economic and scientific and technological relations with developing countries.
The development of the standard of living shall specify:
(a) further develop in a comprehensive manner the achieved degree of material consumption of the population, improve its composition and increase the alert and quality of service;
(b) to strengthen the importance and impact of remuneration for work as a fundamental principle of distribution in socialist society; increase the population's real income by around 25%;
(c) continuously improve the environment and working conditions, in particular on the basis of comprehensive staff care programmes;
(d) gradually, in line with the results achieved by the development of the economy, further develop the care of families with children and the security of the population in old age and illness;
e) build 640 thousand flats in all forms of construction in the Czech Socialist Republic of 410 thousand and in the Slovak Socialist Republic of 230 thousand in the period 1976-1980; while ensuring the complexity of the built settlements by building technical and civic facilities,
(f) further develop the achieved high level of care for the health of the population and create conditions for further improvement of therapeutic preventive care;
(g) in education, to create the preconditions for further raising the level of education and for improving the training of qualified workers;
h) ensure the continuous growth of the cultural level of workers and increase the role of culture and art in meeting the spiritual needs of the population.
Conditions for implementing the sixth five-year plan
(1) The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the Government of the Republics and all central government bodies are responsible for improving the quality and authority of the national economic plans as a basic management tool and for the level of management and organisational work at all stages of the proceedings.
(2) Material technical supplies and customer relations will be improved by deepening planning, increasing the responsibility of sectoral central authorities and production units for the continuous supply of the national economy of products entrusted with the disciplines, establishing justified and constantly renewed consumption and stock standards, strengthening the role of contracts to stabilise supply and sales relationships, and rationalising supply and marketing routes.
(3) The economic management authorities are obliged to make more effective use of wage, financial and price instruments in line with the intentions of national plans to develop the national economy in promoting the most efficient ways to implement them and to guide them towards increasing the quantity and quality of socially desirable production, strengthening the quality aspects of production and reducing its energy and material performance, rapidly expanding knowledge of scientific and technological progress, developing and implementing inventions and improvements, improving the use of basic resources and stocks, improving the efficiency of foreign trade and stabilising labour; in unity with these instruments to apply moral stimuli.
(4) The monitoring of the implementation of the plan will be more closely applied at all stages of the procedure.
(1) In order to fulfil the objectives and tasks of the Sixth Five-Year Plan, to ensure a sustained increase in the efficiency of the national economy, as well as in the safeguarding of financial, budgetary and monetary balance, the obligation to act more effectively to ensure the necessary level of financial resources and to promote the economy of the use of financial and foreign exchange funds.
(2) The state budgets of the Czechoslovak Federation and the state budgets of the Republics are based on the basic objectives and tasks of the sixth five-year plan and the five-year plans of the Republics, on the budgetary perspective of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and on the budgetary prospects of the Republics for the years 1976- 1980 and on the intentions of financial policy established by the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
(3) The state budgets of the Czechoslovak Federation and the state budgets of the Republics are broadly balanced.
(4) In order to ensure the balance of the state budgets of the Republics, they are provided from the state budget of the Federation following the tasks of the implementing state plans of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and in accordance with the principle of economy of the purpose and global subsidies to the state budgets of the Republics.
The achievement of the basic objective and the fulfilment of the tasks of the Sixth Five-Year Plan will be strongly supported by the development of the creative capabilities of people, their social commitment, their high activity, initiative and responsibility at work, and by the organisation of further expansion of socialist competition in its various forms and the development of an inventive and improving movement. Workers' participation in the creation, implementation and control of the implementation of economic plans and management and control activities will be further enhanced.
Final provisions
(1) The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic will ensure the expression of the data provided by this Act in the new wholesale prices announced on 1 January 1977.
(2) The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, or under the authority of the Government of the Republics, may, for the purposes of the experimental verification of new elements of the planned management of the national economy, allow derogations from the provisions of the laws governing the management of the national economy.
(1) Unless otherwise stated, data on the development of the national economy in this law are expressed in comparison with the level achieved in 1975.
(2) The implementation of the State Plan of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for 1976, established on the basis of Act No. 141 / 1975 Coll., on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for 1976, is an implementing State Plan for the Sixth Five-Year Plan.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication.
Husák v. r.
Indra v. r.
Strougal v. r.
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| Citation | Act No. 69 / 1976 Coll., on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980 (Act on the Sixth Five-Year Plan) |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 01.07.1976 |
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| Effective from | 01.07.1976 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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