Current-Planning, the drawing up and organisation of the fulfilment of plans for the development of the national economy and of its branches, associations and enterprises, the economies of the republics, regions and districts over the year, with a quarterly distribution of tasks. Current planning is inherently linked with long-term planning. In accordance with the set procedure for economic planning, annual plans for economic and social development are drawn up on the basis of the tasks and economic targets of the five-year plan for the given year (see Rated Planning). A current plan envisages the necessary specification of these tasks, the introduction of high technology, as well as economic and organisational measures ensuring the fulfilment of the five-year plan, due account being taken of the results achieved in the course of the fulfilment of the fiveyear plan, tapped new reserves, and new requirements that have arisen. Annual plan indices are usually set at a level not below the target of the five-year plan for this year, although with greater detail in order to take fuller account of the specific requirements of production and the population, the results of the development of science and technology, the advanced experience of work collectives and individual workers. The system of indices and technical and economic rates is aimed at boosting the workers’ incentive to raise production efficiency, the quality of products and work, and achieve high final results. The annual plan, as distinct from the long-term plan, starts from below, i. e., production associations (enterprises) and organisations. On the basis of socialist emulation, they evolve counter plans exceeding the corresponding five-year plans. Dovetailed with material resources, these are included in the main plan. When drawing up their annual plans, associations (enterprises) and organisations meet their customers and suppliers beforehand to draw up a nomenclature (list) of products in order to conclude economic agreements. Planned targets are set on the basis of economic and engineering calculations, on the basis of the passport of an enterprise, containing data on the availability and use of production capacities, including the shift coefficient, the organisational and technological standard and production specialisation, as well as other technical and economic indicators. As a result, plans become better substantiated and more stable and now it becomes possible not to set planned targets purely on the basis of the dynamics of the corresponding indicators. It is not allowed to lower plans in order to meet the actual level of fulfilment. The annual plan is evaluated by the growing result from the start of the year (see Discipline, Planning; Tekhpromfinplan). Basing themselves on the five-year plan targets for the current year and on the counter plans of production associations (enterprises) and organisations, ministries and departments of the USSR and the Councils of Ministers of the constituent republics draw up draft annual plans (distributing the most important targets by quarters) for individual branches and republics. The State Planning Committee of the USSR prepares, with due account for the targets of the five-year plan, and presents to the USSR Council of Ministers a draft state plan for economic and social development for the following year. Thus, the existing planning procedure consolidates the link between the current and five-year plan, turning the former 80 into an effective tool for fulfilling the latter. At the same time, it orients work collectives on achieving higher final results, and better satisfying the requirements of the national economy and population.