Planning regulations
The planning regulation was a basic legal regulation or arrangement issued by the chairman of the state planning commission of the GDR and the minister of finance on the order of the planning of the GDR's economy for a five-year planning period . The planning regulations were binding for the central state organs, the local councils, the combines, management organs, companies, institutions and cooperatives.
It contained the specifications for the planning of the reproduction process of the national economy and its branches and areas as well as the nomenclatures and forms required for this. The planning regulations included the definitions for planning, accounting and statistics issued by the state central administration for statistics in agreement with the state planning commission. The planning regulations were supplemented by planning methodical regulations, especially those that are adapted to the specific conditions of the areas and branches. On the basis of the planning regulations, the planning of the combine and the operational planning were regulated by the framework guideline for planning in the combines and companies of industry and construction .
Content of the planning regulations
The planning regulations contained:
- The principles and methodology for the elaboration of the five-year plan for the development of the GDR's economy, the annual economic plans of the state budget and the balance sheets of the credit system as well as the draft plans
- The principles and methodology for the elaboration of the five and annual plans of the combines and operations
- The principles and methodology for drawing up the five-year plan as well as the annual plans and budgets of the districts, counties, cities and municipalities
- The methodological specifications for the preparation and planning of measures for the development of prices
- The determination of the responsibility, the tasks and the coordinated cooperation of the state organs, economic management organs, combines, companies and institutions in the preparation of the plans
- Determinations of macroeconomic planning, territorial and branch planning, accounting and plan coordination, the process of drawing up the plan as well as the key figures to be used , the nomenclatures, forms and the corresponding use of data processing .
Structure of the planning regulations
The planning regulations were last structured as follows in 1988:
Part A 1. General provisions 2. Conceptual preparations of the five-year plan 3. Planning of the effectiveness of social production Part B 4. Planning of industrial production 5. Planning of construction and advertising construction Part C 6. Planning of agriculture, forestry and Food industry part D 7. Planning of the transport of goods, the traffic system and the postal and telecommunications system Part E 8. Planning of the internal trade in consumer goods Part F 9. Planning of the education system Part G 10. Planning of health and social services 11. Planning of physical culture and sport, of recreation and tourism 12. Planning of the areas of culture, television, radio and the General German Intelligence Service Part H 13. Planning of complex housing construction and the housing industry 14. Planning of the local utility industry Part I 15. Planning of water management Part K 16 Planning of the cultural and material standard of living of the population 17. Planning of the jugendpol Itic tasks Part L 18. Planning of socialist rationalization 19. Planning of science and technology 20. Planning of basic funds and investments Part M 21. Planning of material economy 22. Material, equipment and consumer goods accounting Part N 23. Planning of labor productivity, social Labor assets and labor income 24. Financial and cost planning 25. Planning of prices 26. Planning of state finances Part O 27. Planning of measures of socialist economic integration 28. Planning of foreign trade and currency relations Part P 29. Territorial planning 30. Planning of the Environmental protection part Q 31.Special planning tasks of central state bodies and the councils of the districts: A: National accounts B: Planning of the material and cultural standard of living of the population (central tasks) C: Financial balance of the state Part R 32. Methodological specifications for those planning to a reduced extent Establishments
literature
- Dictionary der Ökonomie Sozialismus , Dietz-Verlag Berlin, 6th edition 1989, ISBN 3-320-01267-3