The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law of development planning system in article 1. The purpose of the law the law of aims, determining the development planning system, promote national sustainable and stable development, and the improvement of the quality of life of the population. 2. article. The scope of the law refers to the law of development planning in the Saeima, the Cabinet of Ministers, the direct public administration institutions, planning regions, municipalities and the public administrations that have not passed to the Cabinet of Ministers (hereinafter referred to as national and local government bodies). 3. article. Development planning and its system (1) is the principle of development planning, objectives and actions necessary to achieve development in the politically defined priorities and provide the public and the development of the territory.
(2) development planning system covering political and territorial development planning and provides State and local government institutions linking decisions taken and mutual coherence. 4. article. Development planning document development planning document raises the objectives and results achieved in the relevant policy area or territory, see the description of problems and provide solutions, assess the potential impact of these solutions, as well as planning future policy and evaluating the required action. 5. article. Development planning fundamentals (1) development of planning followed the basic principles laid down in this law. Other laws may provide other relevant industry applicable principles that complement or clarify this statutory framework for development planning.
(2) development of planning the following basic principles: 1) the principle of sustainable development: current and future generations provides high-quality environment and a balanced economic development, rational use of natural, human, and material resources, maintains and develops the natural and cultural heritage;
2 the principle of harmonisation of interests) — various interests and adhere to continuity of development planning documents, ensure that they are not duplicated;
3 the principle of participation — all) interested parties have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the programming document;
4 the principle of cooperation, national) and local government bodies shall cooperate, including through the Executive development programming documents put forward tasks and informing each other of the objectives set and achieving the intended results;
5) financial opportunities, evaluate existing and forecast over the medium term and offer effective solutions with regard to the objectives pursued the required costs;
6 the principle of openness), the development planning process is open and the public is informed of development planning and aid measures and their results, subject to statutory restrictions on access to information;
7) monitoring and evaluation principle: development in the planning and implementation of development planning documents at all levels of Government is the impact assessment as well as monitoring and reporting on the results achieved;
8) the principle of subsidiarity, the policy to the national or local government institution, located as close as possible to the beneficiaries of the service, and the measures are effectively implemented at the lowest possible administrative level;
9) development planning and legislation development linking principle — a policy plan before a legislative issue, and developing regulations, take into account the development of planning documents;
10) balanced development, policy planning, balancing the development of individual country levels and paces. 6. article. Development planning documents (1) the following development planning document types: policy planning documents, the management of the institutions and territorial development planning documents.
(2) policy planning document set goals, tasks and actions in one or more policy areas, sectors or the bottom of the industry development.
(3) the institutions of the guidance document in accordance with the relevant competence of the institution determines the development of the planning and budget planning of the inter-relationship and ensure the development of consistent implementation of the programming document.
(4) regional and local long-term territorial development planning documents, determine appropriate areas of development priorities and spatial development perspective, but medium-term development planning documents, necessary for the implementation of the priority measures. 7. article. Development planning document level development planning documents developed at national, regional and local level. 8. article. Development planning documents the development of the plan in the long term (25 years), medium term (up to seven years) and short-term (up to three years), as well as develop planning documents conceptual decision or the formulation of national positions. 9. article. Development programming document hierarchy (1) development of planning documents, and each follow a long-term conceptual document entitled "growth model for Latvia: people first".
(2) the highest hierarchical long-term development planning document is Latvia's sustainable development strategy. Hierarchically the highest medium-term development planning document is the national development plan.
(3) the medium-term development planning documents is hierarchically subordinate to the long-term development planning documents. Short term development planning documents is hierarchically subordinate to the long-term and medium-term development planning documents.
(4) the local development planning documents is hierarchically subordinate to regional and national development planning documents. Regional development planning documents is hierarchically subordinate to national development planning documents.
(5) development planning documents developed conceptual decision or the formulation of national positions, is hierarchically subordinate to the second part of this article mentioned in the development planning documents.
(6) the proposed International development programming documents include the national planning document hierarchy, choosing the right kind of development planning documents. 10. article. Initiation of development planning and local Government bodies within its competence development in development planning documents on its own initiative, the executing institution of higher task, and when development planning documents provide a measure. 11. article. Development planning process (1) the long-term conceptual document "growth model for Latvia: people first" Cabinet of Ministers provides, and this document approved by the Saeima.
(2) Latvia's sustainable development strategy provides the Cabinet and its strategy approved by the Saeima. Latvia's sustainable development strategy national long-term development priorities and spatial development perspective.
(3) the national development plan and the plan approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. It determines the mutual coordination, national strategic objectives according to the country's development priorities.
(4) development of planning documents, follow the appropriate levels of political guidance document, which outlines the tasks of the State and local authorities.
(5) the Cabinet of Ministers, to the extent otherwise provided by law, determine all levels, types and development of the period, they shall be included in the programming document, the development, approval, escalation, the loss of order and duration, as well as the reporting and public participation procedures.
(6) the cabinet shall determine the development planning documents and legal evaluation of the potential impact (except for strategic environmental impact assessment) order, in so far as the law does not provide otherwise.
(7) the results of development planning is the development of planning documents in the course of the implementation of national and local institutions to develop products and services, as well as society and the economy achieve change. Used in determining the results, identify and quantify the key output indicators. Results and performance indicator system and its rules of procedure determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(8) the cabinet shall determine the documents that establish national development goals for the protection in the European Union and international organisations, in the development of this document, coordination, approval and escalation procedures, as well as how such documents may replace the policy planning documents.
(9) Latvia's sustainable development strategy and the national development plan available to public consultation for legislation. Other development planning documents are served to the public law cases and order. 12. article. The management system of development planning and coordination

(1) the development planning system and its supervision is provided by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(2) Latvia's sustainable development strategy and the national development plan, the monitoring of implementation and coordination provided by the Prime Minister.
(3) each Ministry, Minister with special responsibility for the Secretariat and the State Chancellery shall ensure the competence of their existing development planning documents compliance with the hierarchically higher planning documents, as well as development planning system-regulating laws.
(4) the State Chancellery shall evaluate the national development planning documents of mutual coherence and compliance with legislative requirements.
(5) regional development and local government Ministry supports national and regional development planning documents of mutual coherence and conformity with Latvia's sustainable development strategy and the national development plan.
(6) the planning regions provides local and regional development planning documents of mutual coherence and consistency in the development of hierarchically higher planning documents, as well as development planning document system-regulating laws.
(7) the cabinet shall determine the development planning document for the coordination arrangements, in so far as the law does not provide otherwise.
(8) once every two years, the Cabinet of Ministers organized a public debate on national development priorities and direction, as well as their implementation.
(9) the review of the national development planning system the Prime Minister includes in its annual report to Parliament on the performance of the Cabinet and the proposed transaction. 13. article. Development planning document (1) development planning document shall enter into force simultaneously with the law, with which it approved. Under the legislation, legislation may establish a special development planning document, the procedure for entry into force and duration.
(2) development planning document is void, if the duration or the law it is considered unenforceable.
(3) State and local government bodies, the laws and the performance of those tasks, the development of planning documents.
(4) where, in the cases stipulated by law development planning documents adopted in the form of legislation, it is binding as a measure. Transitional provisions 1. Cabinet of Ministers article 11 of this law in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth those terms shall be issued until March 1, 2009. 2. Direct administrative authority after the entry into force of this law development programming documents drawn up in accordance with this law and until January 1, 2010 to ensure their competence previously accepted development planning documents for compliance with that rule. 3. Until the date when this law is harmonised provisions of other laws requirements for development planning in the territory, the rules of law on the territory of development planning to apply in so far as they are not inconsistent with other provisions of law relating to spatial planning and regional development planning documents. 4. Local authorities and planning regions development programming document compliance with this law, other laws provide in the order and within a time limit. 5. The Cabinet of Ministers until March 1, 2009 shall be submitted to the Parliament amendments to other legislation to align it with the provisions of this law. The law shall enter into force on 1 January 2009.
The Parliament adopted the law of 8 May 2008. In place of the President of the parliamentary President G. Lot in Riga, 2008. on May 23.