Nomenclature of Products, the list of products put out by industry and other branches of the national economy. It is drawn up for the following purposes: to plan the rate, structure, and proportions of the development of the national economic branches, volume of output in physical and value terms, and other plan indicators, to draw up material balances and plans for output distribution to establish economic ties, and conclude agreements between producers and consumers, determine the productive capacity of associations and enterprises. The nomenclature of products may be extended to embrace all kinds of manufactures or enlarged (for instance, "motor vehicles"— in thousands, without specification of the numbers of lorries and cars). In the USSR, the enlarged nomenclature of products, approved in long-term plans, is specified in current plans, depending on the structural economic links. The enlarged nomenclature of the most important kinds of output is planned at the national economic level, then broken down during planning at the level of ministries, departments, associations and enterprises. The extended nomenclature assortment of products is conceived in production associations and enterprises when production plans and plans for the delivery of products are drawn up, taking into account the requirements of consumers. Assortment is an extended list of the varieties of a given product with special technical and economic specifications (power, quality, productivity, size, finish, etc.). More than 12 million kinds of products are put out in the USSR today. Under the Tenth Five-Year Plan (1976-1980), annual production plans, material balances and the plans for output distribution approved by the USSR Council of Ministers, the USSR State Planning Committee, the USSR State Committee for Material and Technical Supply, ministries and departments included up to 40,000 kinds of major products. The USSR Council of Ministers and the USSR State Planning Committee approved production plans, balances and output distribution plans for an extended nomenclature totalling up to 2,000 products, and the USSR State Committee for Material and Technical Supply approved 12,000 products. Lists of technological products to be manufactured and delivered by production associations ( enterprises) are approved with due account of their specialisation. According to these lists, consumers and supply and sales organisations conclude agreements on the delivery of products they need.