THE SUPREME PLANNING COMMISSION

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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 16, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INTEL!.OFAX 21 15
FE8 1952 51-4AA
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT The Supreme Planning Commission
DATE OF
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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DATE DISTR. 16 April 1952
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1, The S.pLeme Planning Commission is composed of several departments and two
auxiliary groups. The departments are located in three different buildings
in Bucharest9 namely-
a, Calea Dobrogeanu Gherea No. 2
b. Calea V. Kuibasev No, 29
Calea Academiei No. 5
The two auxiliary groups are:
a. The Price Control Commission, which works under the supervision of the
Planning Commission, Calea Dobrogeanu Gherea, No, 2.
b. The Central Office for Statistics, located at Boulevard General Magheru.
3. The Commission has departments for all branches of the state economy, including
Heavy Industry, Light Industry,Foodstuffs Industry, Internal Trade, Foreign
Trade, and Transport. It also has cooperative societies as well as a
Coordinating Department.
4. The General Plan has been worked out by the Head of the Commission in
cooperation with the heads of all departments and ministries. At a special
meeting the need of each department was discussed and balanced according
to political and economical conditions and requirements. Each department
has a permanent representative (consilier) at the Commission who is entitled
to check the execution of the Plan in respect to his own department. The
Soviets have a decisive vote at all meetings and no plan decided upon by the
Is .r s c, the Corm iss3or can be axcsr d if it; ys vetoed by the Soviet
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representative. The Coordinating Department is concerned with the execution
of such decisions. The President is assisted in his work by two Deputy
Presidents?
. In its execution the Plan is always flexible and subject to alterati.on.,s.
After it has been fixed for a particular period by the Commission, the
Departments are informed of the results which they pass on to their "Trusts"
which, in turn, are charged with informing all enterprises under their control re-
garding the volume of production that will be required of them. Each
Department in turn has its own planning branch, which. is directly in
touch with the Supreme Commission. The enterprises are obliged to carry
out the Plan after they have received the necessary funds and materials.
Weekly reports on all enterprises are coordinated by the respective
departments, who submit them to the Central Statistics Office of the
Supreme Planning Commission.
6. Each enterprise has an official who is responsible for the execution of the
Plan. Additional control is exercised through the Central Statistics
Office, the "reflector" of the economic system. This office also issues
forms on behalf of the economic administration, which helps to facilitate
control. Finally, direct control is exercised through special officials
who are sent periodically to the enterprises by the Ministries and by
the Supreme Planning Commission. Their task is to make sure that the
Plan is fulfilled and in case of delay to uncover the reasons.
7. On the whole the Plan has been fulfilled though there have been some branches
in which production has fallen somewhat short of requirements. In 1951
about 70 percent of the Plan was fulfilled by the Cooperative Sector, 65
percent by the Foodstuffs Industry., 40 percent by the Meat Supply, and 65
to 70 percent by the Coal Industry.
8. The personnel of the Supreme Planning Commission is composed of engineers
and plannersq all of whom are university graduates. At the end of 1951
the Commission had 1,000 employees. The Central Statistics Office has
29000 employees, among whom are statisticians, university graduates and
minor officials. Forty percent of the staff are women.
9. The following miscellaneous information is submitteda
a. There is no special control commission for the armament industry but
only an Armament Department attached to the Planning Commission. The
members of this Department are representatives of the Ministry of
Defense and are mostly Soviets.
b. There is no special transport control commission but only a Transport
Department -There the Soviets have a decisive influence.
A. Large quantities of metallurgical coke are imparted from the USSR, and
from Poland. Exact figures are unk,-now .
d. T'h Phoe~_.IX NNork at. Baia P=are and the :rr: Tarriavefi (Dicio-San-Martin)
as well as other works in Transylvania have been enlarged in 1950-51.
These have increased the production of caustic soda and soda ash.
e. Large quantities of bitumen are exported to the USSR.
f. Only a small part of the Forestry Plan is being fulfilled and many changes
are taking place in this industry.
g. The hydroelectric station at Bicaz, which is to produce 200,000
kilowatts., is almost finished. The thermoelectric stations on the Danube
Canal are said to be ready to start work in 1952. Though the Five Year
Plan had foreseen the electrification of 2,000 villages by 1955,. no
preparations have been made so far to reach even this comparatively modest
target.
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than ice oa the ,-!orld iaarl et.
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