Act of the Czech National Council No. 70 / 1976 Coll.
Act of the Czech National Council on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czech Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980
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Effective from 01.07.1976
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THE LAW
Czech National Council
of 29 June 1976
on the National Economy Development Plan of the Czech Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980
Based on the results achieved in the development of the national economy, the XV. Convention of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia for the Economic and Social Development of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the years 1976- 1980 and in accordance with 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.
The Czech National Council decided on this law:
This law sets out the basic objective and main tasks of the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czech Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980 (hereinafter referred to as the "Five-Year Plan of the Republic") and the conditions for its implementation, which are a binding directive for the management of the government, central authorities, national committees and other bodies of the Czech Socialist Republic and for the economic activity of socialist organisations managed by them.
Basic objective and main tasks of the Republic's five-year plan
The basic objective of the Republic's 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 material and spiritual needs of the population and further strengthening of its living and social security on the basis of continuous 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 be covered primarily by the continuous strengthening of the role of industry, the development of agricultural production and the rise of construction production;
(b) orient economic development to addressing the key challenges of the further proportional development of the single Czechoslovak economy and the growth of its effectiveness and to achieving an increase in the social product created in the Czech Socialist Republic by around 25% and the real income of the population by around 24% by 1980;
(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; focus on ensuring that the increase in national income in the Czech Socialist Republic is covered by 98% growth in social productivity;
d) deepen the participation of institutions and organisations in the increased involvement of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic's national economy in international socialist economic integration;
(e) make more intensive use of natural wealth and explore its further development, make more intensive use of the agricultural land fund, increase its fertility and protect it; ensure the development of water resources;
(f) to take permanent care of the environment, in particular conservation of nature, protection of watercourses, groundwater and air from pollution;
(g) make much better use of the production technical base, improve the quality, technical level and utility characteristics of production and ensure that investment funds are spent in a highly efficient manner;
(h) to aim at the scientific and technological development and application of the results of science and technology to address decisive development objectives;
(i) further strengthen the stability of the internal market, improve the range of goods, amend in particular the goods of long-term consumption and expand its supply; improve the links between production and trade, develop and modernise the materially technical base of trade;
j) pay priority attention to the implementation of long-term projects under construction and the overall modernisation of the capital of Prague; further consider the development of the North Bohemian Region as a priority;
(k) 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 production quality, creative power and to encourage workers to do so.
The development of industrial production shall specify:
a) to increase the volume of industrial production managed by the authorities of the Czech Socialist Republic by almost 24% by 1980 based on the use of all production factors, in particular the production of technical bases and labour; the increase in production to cover almost entirely the increase in labour productivity;
(b) to ensure growth in the various industrial sectors by 1980, expressed in terms of increasing the volume of gross production of centrally managed state-owned economic organisations:
| v chemickém průmyslu | téměř o 33 % |
| ve spotřebním průmyslu | téměř o 18 % |
| ve výrobě stavebních hmot | nejméně o 41 % |
| v potravinářském průmyslu | téměř o 19 % |
| ve zdravotnické výrobě | nejméně o 45 %; |
c) to create the conditions for ensuring growth in the Czech Socialist Republic by 1980, expressed by increasing gross production volume:
| v palivech a energetice | nejméně o 17 % |
| v hutnictví a těžkém strojírenství | nejméně o 30 % |
| ve všeobecném strojírenství | nejméně o 45 %; |
(d) promote progressive changes in production, mainly through the implementation of industrial development programmes; further strengthen the role of chemistry as one of the main holders of technical progress;
(e) further develop the extraction and processing of raw materials of domestic origin and the use of secondary raw materials.
(1) In the development of agricultural production, the Czech Socialist Republic provides for an increase of almost 13% in total agricultural production compared to the period 1971-1975 and to contribute to the gradual achievement of self-sufficiency in grain production.
(2) In the development of the forestry sector, the Czech Socialist Republic provides for an increase of more than 6% in wood extraction by 1980, continuing to rationalise the entire production process and improving the comprehensive use of wood material.
In the development of transport and connections there is an obligation to participate
(a) to increase the transport of goods and persons, to ensure the coordinated development of the different modes of transport and the communication networks by better using means of transport and by strengthening public road transport, to ensure the further development of the container transport system and to enhance the safety and culture of passenger travel;
(b) further automation of interurban telephone traffic and the expansion of the broadcasting and transmission network of the second television programme;
c) to launch 298 thousand new telephone stations in the Czech Socialist Republic.
(1) In the field of investment, the obligation is to assume that in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic the share of investments 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) The construction industry provides for an obligation to participate in an increase of 34% in the volume of construction works carried out by construction organisations in the Czech Socialist Republic until 1980.
In external economic relations there is an obligation to participate
(a) to increase the total turnover of foreign trade;
(b) the intensified involvement of the Czechoslovak economy in the international division of labour, in particular in international socialist economic integration and the development of universal economic and scientific and technological cooperation with socialist countries, in particular 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) extending long-term, stable and mutually beneficial economic and scientific and technical 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;
(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 disease;
e) in the period 1976- 1980, build at least 410 thousand flats in all forms of construction in the Czech Socialist Republic, of which at least 58,000 flats in the capital of Prague; while ensuring the complexity of the built settlements by building technical and civil 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 staff; to further improve the education and education system;
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 Republic's five-year plan
(1) The Government, central government authorities, the Regional National Committees and the National Committee of the City of Prague are responsible for improving the quality and authority of the national economic plans, including regional plans, as a basic tool for managing the national economy and for the level of management and organisational work at all stages of the procedure.
(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 of implementing them and to orient them to increase the quantity and quality of socially desirable production, to strengthen the quality of production and to reduce its energy and material demands, to rapidly broaden the knowledge of scientific and technological progress, to develop and implement inventions and improvements, to improve the use of essential resources and supplies, to improve the efficiency of foreign trade and to stabilise labour; in unity with these tools apply moral stimuli and comprehensive staff care programs.
(4) National committees are required to ensure consistently the established economic policy guidelines under local conditions, particularly in the field of labour; further develop the organisation of voluntary work.
(5) The monitoring of the implementation of the plan will be more closely applied at all stages of the procedure.
In order to fulfil the objectives and tasks of the Republic's 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 economy in the use of financial and foreign exchange funds is laid down.
Achieving the basic objective and carrying out the tasks of the Republic's five-year plan will be strongly supported by the development of the creative capabilities of people, their social commitment, high activity, initiative and responsibility at work, and by organising further expansion of socialist competition in its various forms. 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 will ensure the expression of the information provided by this Act in the new wholesale prices announced on 1 January 1977.
(2) For the purposes of experimental verification of new elements of the planned management of the national economy, the Government may allow exemptions from the provisions of the Czech National Council's laws governing the management of the national economy. This applies mutatis mutandis to laws issued before 1 January 1969, provided that the laws of the Czech National Council can be amended.
(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 Czech Socialist Republic for 1976, established on the basis of the Act of the Czech National Council No. 145 / 1975 Coll., on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czech Socialist Republic for 1976, is an implementing State Plan for the Five Year Plan of the Republic.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication.
Erban v. r.
Korcák v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act of the Czech National Council No. 70 / 1976 Coll., on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Czech Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980 |
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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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