Act of the Slovak National Council No. 71 / 1976 Coll.
Law of the Slovak National Council on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Slovak Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980 (Act on the Sixth Five-Year Plan)
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Effective from 01.07.1976
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THE LAW
Slovak National Council
of 29 June 1976
on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Slovak Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980 (Law on the Sixth Five-Year Plan)
Based on the results achieved by 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, the Resolution of the Convention of the Communist Party of Slovakia 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 Slovak National Council decided on this Act:
The Act sets out the basic objective and main tasks of the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Slovak 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, central authorities, national committees and other bodies of the Slovak Socialist Republic and for the economic activity 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 the further consolidation of its life and social security on the basis of sustainable development and high efficiency of social production and the quality of all the work done.
In order to achieve this objective and to strengthen the Socialist State, the following main tasks shall be set out:
(a) orient economic development to addressing the key challenges of developing a single Czechoslovak economy and increasing its efficiency; to ensure more intensive use of natural and economic conditions, a production technical base and an increase in the working population;
(b) continue to maintain the rapid dynamics of the development of the economy and to ensure the smooth and proportional growth of social production, in particular by continuously strengthening the role of industry, the development of agricultural production, building production and by 1980 to ensure an increase of 35% in the social product created, with 87% of its increase in social productivity;
(c) implement and implement more rapidly the results of science and technology, further strengthen the scientific research base and guide its efforts towards decisive research and development tasks and shorten the deadlines for their solutions;
(d) make much better use of the production technical base, acquire new technology and technology more quickly and ensure efficient and highly efficient use of funds for investment activities with an emphasis on sound investment and project preparation and on the timely completion of investment actions, in particular critical support programmes relevant to structural transformation;
(e) intensify the use of natural wealth and prepare its further development by exploring; use, in particular, stocks of ore and non-ore raw materials, hydropower to produce electricity, fuel sources, wood materials, agricultural and forestry land, in the strict protection of nature and the environment;
(f) promote a sustained increase in efficiency in all sectors of the economy; On the basis of the growth of technical labour equipment, better use of the working time fund and better organisation of work, increase the share of labour productivity in the development of the material production sector; more efficient management of all types of fuels, energy, materials, raw materials, feed and food, to evaluate and apply them more strongly and improve standardisation and control of consumption;
(g) to ensure an increase in the shares of enterprises and organisations in the international division of work with the Member States of the Council of mutual economic assistance, in particular the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in order to further extend this cooperation within the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic;
(h) further strengthen the stability of the internal market, improve the range of goods, change, in particular, 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;
(ch) to create conditions for strengthening the industrial character of Bratislava, in particular the development of machinery, to pay attention to housing construction, technical and civil amenities of housing sites;
(i) develop and further improve the management of the national economy so as to help to improve the efficiency of development, the quality of production, the mobilisation of reserves, the growth of labour productivity, creative power and workers' initiative more effectively.
(1) Increase industrial production in the Slovak Socialist Republic by 44% in growth of labour productivity by 29%,
(2) In the various industries, increase the volume of gross production by 1980 as follows:
| a) v palivech a energetice | o 34 % |
| b) v hutnictví | o 23 % |
| c) ve strojírenství | o 70 % |
| d) v chemickém průmyslu | o 43 % |
| e) ve spotřebním průmyslu | o 41 % |
| f) ve výrobě stavebních hmot | o 45 % |
| g) v potravinářském průmyslu | o 24 % |
| h) ve zdravotnické výrobě | o 40 %. |
(3) Implement structural changes in industrial production, in particular by implementing development programmes; More than half the increase in industrial production is ensured in engineering and in the chemical industry, thereby further strengthening the importance of these industries as the main holders of technical progress.
(4) Priority shall be given to the production of high performance machinery and equipment, in particular road and construction machinery, hydraulic elements, tractors including engines, transmission cabinets, lorries, calculation and control techniques, textiles, machine tools and moulding machines, energy, bearing, medical and electronic equipment, petrochemical products and furniture.
(5) Intensely implement innovative processes, increase the level, quality, utility and aesthetic characteristics of the products and, to this end, make better use of licence production options.
(1) In agricultural production
a) Increase gross agricultural production by more than 18% compared to the period 1971-1975 and contribute to achieving the self-sufficiency of the Czechoslovak economy in grain production;
(b) to make full use of the agricultural land fund, to increase its fertility by meliorations and cultivation, by preventing destruction and the loss of arable land; continue to nationalise agricultural land in the Eastern Slovak lowland and Záhoří; ensure further growth in hectares by improving seedling, agro-engineering, irrigation and increasing the supply of industrial fertilisers to 262 kg of clean nutrients per hectare of agricultural land.
(2) In the forestry sector, to increase wood production by around 5% by 1980, while ensuring the growth of forest production capacity and afforestation of about 100,000 hectares of land; continue to rationalise the entire production process and improve the comprehensive use of wood material in cooperation with the woodworking and paper and cellulose industries.
(3) In water management, priority shall be given to providing high-quality drinking and utility water resources; special care to protect drinking water sources in the Rye Island area and the purity of watercourses; make flood treatments especially Hron, Ipeľu and Slané and continue to prepare for construction of water works in the Danube.
(1) Increase the volume of all types of transport by 24%, of which public road transport by 33%; making better use of the fleet, ensuring its repair, maintenance and modernization, increasing track permeability, removing counter-traffic and increasing safety and culture of passenger travel.
(2) Continue to automate interurban traffic in the development of connections; put 172 000 telephone stations into service; to extend the broadcasting and transmission network of the second television programme by 6 basic television transmitters.
(1) In investment construction, increase the volume of investment in the years 1976-1980 compared to the fifth five-year period by 38-40%, using the means of investment to quickly complete the construction and put the capacity into operation at the specified dates.
(2) In construction production, increase the volume of basic building production by 43% in the structure according to social priorities, in the growth of labour productivity by 32%; the capacity of construction organisations to concentrate on decisive investment actions in order to complete them in a timely manner.
To channel the growth of workers in the socialist sector of the national economy into decisive new and modernised industrial and construction plants to increase exchange rates, to improve the use of high-performance machinery and equipment, and to ensure the development of services for the population and other non-productive sectors.
In the field of foreign trade, to increase the participation of the Slovak Socialist Republic in its national turnover, in particular in exports, to participate in the further expansion of universal economic and scientific and technological cooperation with socialist countries, to participate in the joint development of issues related to the safeguarding of the long-term needs of the Member States of the Council of mutual economic assistance and to strengthen the role of foreign trade in increasing the overall efficiency of national electricity.
(1) In developing the standard of living, further develop the degree of material consumption achieved, improve its composition and increase the level, quality and readiness of services.
(2) 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 32%.
(3) Continue to improve the environment and working conditions, particularly on the basis of comprehensive staff care programmes.
(4) In line with the results achieved by the development of the economy, gradually develop the care of families with children and the security of the population in old age and disease.
(5) In the years 1976- 1980, in all forms of residential building 230 000 flats, of which in the capital of the Slovak Socialist Republic Bratislava at least 27 000 flats; In doing so, remove the shortcomings resulting from the lagging of the civil amenities of the settlements and ensure consistently the complexity of the built settlements of technical and civil facilities.
(6) In health care, further develop the level of care for the health of the population, create conditions for further improvement of preventive and therapeutic care.
(7) In education, create the preconditions for further raising the level of education and for improving the training of qualified workers.
(8) 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 Slovak Socialist Republic and central authorities1) are responsible for:
(a) 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 management;
(b) rational concentration of economic activities, population and infrastructure in selected residential centres and the formation of future residential conurbations;
(c) the deployment of production, which is clearly not linked to natural resources, to locations of peripheral importance, so that the development of production forces is consistent with the sources of labour in the region;
(d) the placing of a municipal, corporate and substantial part of cooperative housing construction, including technical and civil amenities, in locations of peripheral importance in which the development of production forces takes place;
(e) improvement of material technical supply and customer relations by deepening planning, increasing the responsibility of production units for the continuous supply of products to the national economy, establishing justified and constantly renewed consumption and stock standards, increasing the role of economic contracts in organising supply and sales relationships and rationalising supply and sales routes.
(2) The economic management authorities are obliged to make more effective use of wage, financial and price instruments in line with the intentions of the State Plan in promoting the most efficient ways of implementing the plan; These instruments shall aim to increase the quantity and quality of socially desirable production, to strengthen the quality aspects of production and to reduce its energy and material performance, to accelerate the implementation of scientific and technological progress, inventions and improvements, to improve the use of essential resources and stocks, to improve the efficiency of foreign trade, to stabilise labour; in unity with these instruments to use moral stimuli.
(3) National committees are required to ensure consistently the established economic policy guidelines under local conditions, in particular through the rational use of labour; further develop and organise the participation of citizens in voluntary building work.
(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 tasks of the Sixth Five-Year Plan and to ensure a sustained increase in the efficiency of the national economy, the financial and budgetary balance, to act more effectively to achieve the necessary level of financial resources and to promote the cost-effectiveness of spending funds.
(2) The state budgets of the Slovak Socialist Republic in 1976- 1980 will be based on the sixth five-year plan, on the budgetary perspective of the Slovak Socialist Republic for the years 1976- 1980 and on the intentions of financial policy determined by the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
(3) The state budgets of the Slovak Socialist Republic are essentially balanced.
In order to achieve the basic objective and to carry out the tasks of the Sixth Five-Year Plan, the objective is to promote the development of the creative capabilities of people, their social engagement and labour responsibility, as well as high activity and initiative at work; organise further expansion of socialist competition in its various forms; further increase the participation of workers in the creation, provision, implementation and control of the implementation of economic plans, management and control activities.
Final provisions
(1) The Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic is certain to express the data provided by this Act in the new wholesale prices announced on 1 January 1977.
(2) The Government of the Slovak Socialist Republic may, for experimental purposes, authorise the verification of new elements of the planned management of the national economy by derogation from the provisions of the laws of the Slovak National Council governing the management of the national economy. This applies mutatis mutandis to laws issued before 1 January 1969, provided that the laws of the Slovak National Council can be amended.
(1) Data on the development of the national economy are expressed in this Act by comparison with the level reached in 1975, unless otherwise provided by the law.
(2) The State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Slovak Socialist Republic for 1976, established on the basis of the Act of the Slovak National Council No. 147 / 1975 Coll., on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Slovak 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.
Shalgovič v. r.
Dr Colotka v. r.
1) Paragraph 2 (2) of Act No. 145 / 1970 Coll., on National Economic Planning.
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| Citation | Act of the Slovak National Council No. 71 / 1976 Coll., on the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the Slovak 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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