REGULATIONS ON REDISTRIBUTION OF UNUSED MACHINERY IN HUNGARY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700070397-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 397
• Publication Date: July 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
CLASSIFICATI~~ RESTRICTED
URITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
'
COUNTRY
,
gyngary DATE OF
`SUBJECT INFORMATION 1952
Economic - Heavy industry, scrap collection
HOW
PUBLISHED Irregular nevspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Budapest
DATE
PUBLISHED 25 Mar 1952
LANGUAGE Hungarian
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DATE DIST. I $ Jul 1952
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
REGULATIONS ON REDISTRIBUTION OF
UNUSED MACHINERY IN HUNGARY
The following regulation throws light oa the current shortage of
all kinds of machinery and machine parts, as well as scrap, in Hun-
gary. It will be noted that workers are encouraged to act ae inform-
ers in reporting unused machines which the management may have con-
cealed.
Instruction No 2,500-8 oP the President of the National Planning Office of
25 March 1952 is summarized below.
Realization of the Five-Year Plan requires not only large-scale mechaniza-
tion but also ratloaai utilizatloa of existing machinery. Therefore, machines,
machine parts, and fittings which are not actually is use must be placed again
in production. Lf thin cannot be done economically, the component materials
must be made available to the national economy.
Heavy industrial equipment, including finished and semifinished machines,
machine parts, and fittings, is considered not in use if it is not used for its
original purpose or is in operation less than lU hours per week during any three
coasecutlve months. Equipment not in use is regarded as obsolete if it does
not satisfy current technical or economic requirements.
Heavy industrial equipment ie regarded as unusable if it is damaged to such
as extent that it cannot be placed ir. use again, or at least not without repairs
out of proportion to its value. The latter regulation, however, does not apply
to rotary electric machinery and to ether electric machines, in^truments, and
parts.
All public administrative agencies, institutes, and national enterprises
are required to declare their heavy industrial equipment not in use, even if the
equipment is is repair. Equipment on sale by foreign and domestic trade eater-
prisee must be declared only after 90 days' btorage.
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r Organizations having heavy industrial a u1 ment in their
9 P possession are re-
quired to file their declarations with the supervising ministry (hereinafter
t ministry) sad foreign and domestic trade entergriae with the National Planning
Office by 10 Apr11 1952. The declaration must include a description, registra-
tion end inventory number, and condition of the equipment. Forms No 10,110-3/b,
on-which the declaration is to be )Wade, are sold at the Plan Publication Store
(Budapest V, Szent Istvan-ter 4) and st 3esignated stationary stores in megye
seats,.?
Heavy industrial equipment is classified by the ministry as (1) usable in
its present condition, (2) to be repaired, (3) to be kept in storage, or (4)
utilizable for scrap.
Application for the allocation of heavy Sndustrial equipmen,; not Sn use
may be made to the ministry whi^h supervises the applicant eaterpri4e on form
No 10,110-3/a. Equipment which is usable is its present cond:ton or which the
applicant agrees to repair is to be allocated by the ministry to organizations
under its own ,jurisdiction. Applications by new enterprises will be given pref-
erence. Thereafter, applications of Enterprises from which substantial produc-
tion increases or cost reductions may be expected will be satisfied. In el-
locatiag heavy industrial equipment, the requirements of local industry must be
given due consideration.
For the repair of heavy industrial machines the following criteria are
used: (1) the machine must be repaired if the :.oat of repair does not exceed
40 percent of the cost of a nev machine made in Hungary or 60 percent of the
coat oP an imported nev machine; (21 if the repair scats are greats-r than indi-
cated under (1) above, due conslder~tion must be given to tha general demand
for the heavy equipment in question,
Classification and scrapping of obsolete or unusable heavy industries equip-
ment not in use are the responsibility of each minist:y separately in its own
jurisdiction according to the quarterly work plans. If scrapping is ordered,
the organization in possession of the equipment lust diswsotle 1t. The enter-
prise designated for scrap collection is required to take over ;he scrapped
equipment within 45 days after receipt of the scrapping orde-. The ?:ollect-
ing enterprise must extract Prom the scrapped equipment all usabi.: iron, non-
ferrous metals, and machine parts end deliver these to deslgnate3 user enter-
prises.
Enterprises in possession of heavy industrial eyuipment which requi.ree ro
repair are required to ship this equipment to ttie designated receiving enter-
prises, which will credit the account of the shipper for the value of the equip-
ment. If the equipment is shipped to an ar*.isan cooperative, producers co-
operative, agricultural cooperative, or an et:terprise owned wholly or ir. part
by a foreign government, ':he receiving enterprise will pay the value to the
Investment Bank Por account of the shipper.
A worker who finds heavy industrial equipment which would not have been
delivered in the regular course of business operations is entitled ;o a re-
ward. No reward will be granted, however, to workers whose assignment was to
find and declare heavy industrial equipment wader the preset Instruction,
The maximum reward to nay worker ?s 1,000 forlnts end cannot excee3 one per-
cent of the val~ie of the equipment. If the eyuipment is scrapped, the reward
cannot exceed 10 percent of the value of the salvaged materials. The reward
will be paid by the meaager of the de'_ivering enterprise out of the proceeds
received for the heavy industrial equipment.
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The delivering enterprise oust keep the heavy industrial equipment which has
been declared ea not is use in good condition until the ministry or the National
,Y. Planning Office taken action. If the equipment is damaged by unforeseen causes,
tlfe~declariag eaterpiise'is required to advise the ministry or the National
Planning Office promptly.
'' " Violation oP the present Instruction is punishable by a maximum fine of
3,~ torints.
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