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Law No. 6 Of 29 March 1974 Concerning The Main Tasks Of The Popular Councils In Agriculture

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 6 din 29 martie 1974 privind principalele atribuţii ale consiliilor populare în domeniul agriculturii

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LEGE no. 6 6 of 29 March 1974 on the main tasks of the agriculture councils
ISSUER GREAT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Published in OFFICIAL BULLETIN no. 49 49 of 2 April 1974



Agriculture-the basic branch of the national economy in the Socialist Republic of Romania-ensures the supply of the population with agri-food products and the raw materials industry, the development of this branch having an important role in increasing the income national and in raising the standard of living of the peasantry, of all the people. The large tasks of the current stage of development of our socialist society require the continued increase of the competence and responsibility of the popular councils-local bodies of state power-in the unitary leadership of the entire agriculture, for the insurance the development of this branch of the national economy within each administrative-territorial unit. To that end, The Great National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Romania adopts this law. + Chapter 1 General provisions + Article 1 The popular councils and their executive committees bear the full responsibility for carrying out the tasks established by the state plan regarding the increase of agricultural production in the administrative-territorial units in which they were chosen, to increase the contribution of agriculture to the development of the national economy, to raising the standard of living + Article 2 In the exercise of their duties in the field of agriculture, Law no. 57/1968 , the popular councils and their executive committees, as local bodies of power and local bodies of the state administration, with general competence in the administrative-territorial unit in which they operate, bring to fruition the tasks established by this law on the rational use of the land fund, the planning in agriculture, the realization of the plan of insreminders, the execution of crop maintenance works and the storage of the products, as well as animal breeding. + Article 3 The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Water Industry, in the implementation of the party and state policy in the whole agriculture, responds, as a plan holder, to the performance of tasks in its field of activity; for this purpose it has the obligation to work with the popular councils and their executive committees and to support them in fulfilling in good conditions their duties in the field of agriculture of their organization and functioning law, of this law, as well as other normative acts. + Chapter 2 Tasks regarding the rational use of the land fund, establishment and respect of the crop structure + Article 4 The land, the main means of agricultural production, constituting a national good, through its superior valorization serves the general interests of the country and ensures the welfare of all the people. The popular councils ensure the full and efficient protection, preservation, improvement and use of the land by state agricultural units, agricultural production cooperatives, cooperative members ' households and individual households, in consistent with the objectives of the single national economic and social development plan; for this purpose, the executive committees of the popular councils: a) coordinate the elaboration of the dissecting, improvement and enhancement programs of the entire productive potential of the respective administrative-territorial unit, taking measures for their execution; b) control the way in which measures are applied for the continuous improvement of the way of use of the earth by all owners of agricultural land, through which to ensure the passage of land from the lower-use categories to higher categories; c) control how the measures relating to the proper maintenance and operation of existing elisses and pools are applied and support the arrangement of new fish areas, by using low and marshy land, with a view to ensuring the growth of fish production; d) mobilizes all able-bodied residents to carry out water drainage works and raise the fertility of agricultural land, dissecting, indiguiri, expanding irrigation in local facilities, combating soil erosion, Regularization of watercourses, containment basins. + Article 5 The executive committees of the popular councils establish mandatory measures for the cultivation of each land area in accordance with the provisions of the state plan and the established technologies. For this purpose: a) ensure the identification of all land areas, including those in the hearth of the villages and the buildable perimeter of the cities; b) control that the agricultural units, as well as the maintenance and exploitation of the works of improvements arranged for irrigation, in order to achieve the established productions, respect the structure of the crops and the execution of the works of maintenance. The executive committees of the popular councils are responsible for the full cultivation of arable land and the use, according to the destination, of the other categories of land. + Article 6 The executive committees of the popular councils control and respond that the removal from the agricultural land circuit should be made only under the conditions provided by law, and the rendering on the agricultural circuit of land areas temporarily removed to be made at the deadline. The executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest will endorse the temporary or final removal from the vegetable agricultural production of some areas only with the prior consultation of the executive committees of the councils communal, city and municipal folk, aiming at the location of investment objectives to be made in the first place on non-productive land. All opinions to remove some land from the agricultural circuit will be accompanied by proposals for concrete measures to restore the plant agricultural production of equivalent areas. + Article 7 The executive committees of the folk councils answer for the proper organization and complete use of the meadows within the administrative-territorial units, their rational management, exercise control and take measures, according to the law, regardless Whose property is the meadows. For the enhancement of all natural grasslands, the executive committees of the pupulation councils will take measures to draw up concrete breeding programmes and will act to execute the corresponding works, so that in a few years, to increase at least three times their production, training citizens to carry out the necessary works. + Chapter 3 Duties on planning in agriculture + Article 8 The executive committees of the communal, city, municipal and county folk councils are responsible for the organization, guidance and control of the entire planned development of agriculture in the respective administrative-territorial unit. + Article 9 The executive committees of the communal, city, municipal and county folk councils develop the project and the respective folk councils adopt the agricultural production plan of the administrative-territorial unit, an integral part of the plan in territorial profile, according to the legal norms on planning in agriculture and territorial planning of economic and social development, aiming to use with maximum efficiency of material and human resources, of the entire economic potential, ensuring the consistency of the plan tasks with the objectives of the single economic and social development. + Article 10 The county folk councils and the city of Bucharest and their executive committees, in the exercise of the tasks of planning agriculture: a) distribute on communes, cities and municipalities, on each agricultural unit and for the household sector, the areas of the main crops, livestock, deliveries to the state fund and the other indicators of the plan, in correlation with material basis, labour force and other local specific factors, to ensure the enhancement of existing resources, to achieve and exceed the provisions of the plan; b) ensure and respond to the contents of the state and cooperative units of the assigned indicators, so that the provisions of the state plan on the county and sectors are observed; c) controls how the trusts for the mechanization of agriculture and the resorts under them ensure the correlation of their works plans with those of the agricultural production cooperatives they serve, following the rational use of tractors and machines with which they are equipped, as well as of machinery owned by agricultural cooperatives; d) control and ensure that state agricultural enterprises, agricultural production cooperatives, resorts for agricultural mechanization and other agricultural units develop and apply the programs of technical-organizational measures and economic, in order to fulfill and exceed the tasks of the plan; e) support agricultural units and households in insurance, under the law and tasks provided for in the plan, seeds, planting material, chemical fertilizers and diseases and pest control substances, breeding animals, machinery, spare parts, fuels and other technical-material means necessary for the production; controls the use of the material base provided by the State. + Article 11 The plan tasks of the administrative-territorial units for households will be discussed by the executive committees of the communal, city and municipal folk councils with all citizens holding agricultural land and livestock farmers will be examined and established with each family how to use agricultural land, livestock to be increased, the possibilities of valorization to the state of plant and animal products, following the management how much more thoughtful of existing means to households and the fulfilment of Distributed plan indicators. + Article 12 For the enhancement to a greater extent of the possibilities available to the annexes and other producers, the executive committees of the popular county, municipal, city and communal councils will take action as, outside of the plan received. for deliveries to the state fund, to draw up concrete programmes of measures for the production of vegetables and animal products including pork, poultry and sheep, to meet the needs of the inhabitants. Within these programs, measures will be taken to ensure, in each county, the needs of potatoes and vegetables for the consumption of the population. + Article 13 The executive committees of the county, municipal, city and communal folk councils follow and respond to the realization by all units, as well as the households of the population within the administrative-territorial area, of deliveries to the state of the quantities of plant and animal products provided for in the plan; controls the activity carried out by the agricultural products recovery and procurement units. + Article 14 The county, municipal, city, communal, communal and executive committees will constantly follow and analyze the state of implementation of the plan in territorial aspect in the field of agriculture, establishing concrete measures for improving activity. + Article 15 The executive committees of the county, municipal, city and communal folk councils control the activity of making investments in the field of agriculture, from the respective administrative-territorial unit, the state of achievement of the objectives planned by setting out the necessary measures to put them into operation within and reach the projected parameters. + Article 16 The executive committees of the county, municipal, city and communal folk councils will take measures that through consumer cooperatives ensure the supply of the population with machinery, tools, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and other materials. necessary for agriculture. + Article 17 The executive committees of the popular councils support agricultural units in the professional training of cooperative peasants and agricultural workers. + Chapter 4 Attributions regarding the realization of the plan of insremembering, the execution of the works of crop maintenance + Article 18 In order to ensure the smooth and timely fulfilment of the plan of insreminders, as well as the maintenance works of the crops, the executive committees of the popular councils: a) exercise control over the sowing of all land areas including those in the hearth of the villages and the buildable perimeter of the cities taking measures for them to be executed in optimal periods and with strict observance of the structure crops approved by the State plan and established on each holder; b) organize actions regarding the use by citizens of land around houses and gardens, by cultivating them with trees, vines, vegetables, strawberries and fruit shrubs; c) controls the way in which the socialist agricultural units, households and any other agricultural land holders perform the maintenance works of crops and plantations of vineyards and fruit trees, on time and under the conditions laid down the technologies established for each individual crop; d) carry out the control of the areas mentioned by all the owners of agricultural land, by the execution of measurements, and certify the accuracy of the data contained in the documents drawn up at the conclusion of the registration in the agricultural register of achievements; e) take measures to develop the forecasts of attacks of diseases and pests for field crops, vegetables, trees and vineyards and inform the operative and on time the holders of agricultural land on the data and conditions in which the treatments must be carried out. The management of agricultural units and households are obliged to apply the treatments established in order to combat diseases and pests, and the executive committees of the folk councils will control the execution of these works. + Article 19 The executive committees of the popular councils will take measures for each campaign to carry out analyses and develop operative plans for actions on the organization and conduct of agricultural works, transport insurance, premises for the storage of products, mechanical means and manpower, the date of commencement and termination of works and the other technical and organisational measures, in order to execute on time and in good conditions of works, mandatory for all holders of agricultural land in the administrative-territorial unit, controlling how to carry out these plans. The executive committees of the popular councils will also control how to ensure the storage and preservation of products in state and cooperative agricultural establishments. + Article 20 The executive committees of the folk councils organize the evaluation actions of agricultural production and respond to the estimated production data from the socialist agricultural units and households of the population within the territorial-territorial area. + Chapter 5 Animal husbandry duties + Article 21 The executive committees of the popular councils control the realization of the plan on livestock livestock and livestock production by socialist units and are responsible for meeting the plan provisions in the field of growth animals by households. For this purpose: a) control the way in which the socialist agricultural units meet the breeding and selection program of the animals and respond to the organization of these actions for households; b) establish programs and undertake actions for the development of animal and bird breeding, silkworms and bees in households, organize actions in order to carry out these programs and control their mode of application; c) it controls the manner in which the animal keepers harness the full potential forage, the proper storage of the feed, the preparation and the judicious administration thereof; d) control the manner in which the rational foraging and maintenance of animals is ensured according to the rules of animal health e) controls the way in which it applies and complies with the legal provisions on the cutting of animals, as well as the operation of the cutting points and slaughterhouses. + Article 22 The executive committees of the popular councils will support the organization of animal breeders ' associations in order to increase livestock production, increase the quantities that are delivered to the state fund, as well as better. Population supply. + Article 23 The executive committees of the popular councils control the application of the legal rules on animal health protection in all socialist agricultural establishments and by all animal keepers; mobilize citizens for the realization actions organised to protect animal health, prevent and combat diseases. + Chapter 6 Other duties + Article 24 The executive committees of the county folk councils and the city of Bucharest exercise, regarding the agricultural production cooperatives, the intercooperative councils, the intercooperative associations, the cooperation and the association between the state units and agricultural production cooperatives, the following main tasks: a) confirm the management board of the agricultural production co-opeum, as well as its chairman; b) by the general directions counties for agriculture, food industry and water: -appoint and frame in the cooperative agricultural units the agricultural specialist chief engineers and the chief accountants, as well as the veterinarians in these establishments or in the veterinary constituencies; -approves the transfer of agricultural specialty engineers and veterinarians, from one county to another or from one sector to another of agriculture or to another branch than agriculture, in agricultural specialty positions, with the consent of the Ministry of Agriculture. Agriculture, Food and Water Industry; -approves the change from office and the application of disciplinary measures, on the proposal of the management of the cooperative agricultural units or at the request of the executive committee of the communal, city or municipal council, as the case c) approves the formation of intercooperative councils; d) recognise the formation of intercooperative associations; e) avizes the technical-economic studies and the projects of the constituent acts of associations between state agricultural units and agricultural production cooperatives. + Article 25 The executive committees of the popular councils support agricultural production cooperatives less consolidated in the development and implementation of the technical and organizational measures programs in order to improve the economic activity of to them. + Article 26 The county folk councils and their executive committees lead, guide and control the county general directions for agriculture, food industry and waters, the local specialized bodies of the state administration, subordinated to the council. also popular with the executive committee that operates as well as the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Water Industry. The county general directions for agriculture, food industry and waters ensure the unitary leadership of agriculture, food industry and water management within the county where they operate. + Article 27 The county general directions for agriculture, food industry and water: a) develop studies and programs on the proportions, rhythms, levels and paths of development in the perspective of agriculture within the county; b) ensure the elaboration of the draft plan on agricultural production in territorial aspect, breakdown of the plan by socialist agricultural units, communes, cities and municipalities in relation to the pedoclimatic and economic conditions, material base and labor force, follow and support the implementation of the plan tasks c) organize, control and respond to the activity of increasing plant agricultural production, livestock and animal production and the application of plant protection and animal protection measures, to ensure the seed fund and planting material from valuable varieties, as well as animals with high biological value, the economic and organizational strengthening of socialist agricultural units, the preservation and rational use of the land fund, the realization of the centralized fund of the state with plant and animal products; d) establish measures and control that tractors and agricultural machinery be used at full capacity in all agricultural units, while aiming at ensuring the endowment of agricultural mechanization resorts; e) support and guide households in the application of measures to increase plant production, livestock and animal production; f) periodically analyzes, together with the intercooperative councils, the county unions of the agricultural production cooperatives and the branches of the Food and Agriculture Bank, the state of fulfilment of the economic plan of the agricultural units cooperatists, establish appropriate measures and pursue their achievement; g) respond to the application of the results in production of scientific research, modern technologies, the realization of investment objectives, the technical-material endowment of agricultural units; h) together with the county unions of agricultural cooperatives of production, guide, support and control the intercooperative councils, are responsible for their activity; i) draw up together with the county unions of agricultural production cooperatives, branches of the Bank for Agriculture and Food Industry and with the management of agricultural cooperatives of less consolidated production, technical-economic programs their recovery complexes; j) at the request of the associated cooperatives, together with the County Union of agricultural cooperatives of production, re-examine, and as the case may be, suspend or cancel decisions adopted in the general meetings of the intercooperative associations, which do not correspond the interests of associations or members thereof; k) controls the way in which agricultural specialist engineers, veterinarians, chief accountants, other technical and economic staff exercise their specialized duties entrusted to them in cooperative agricultural units; l) support, together with the county unions of agricultural production cooperatives, the establishment of intercooperative associations, cooperation and association of state units with agricultural production cooperatives; m) ensures the improvement of the professional training of the management staff, other technical and economic staff, as well as of the workers of state and cooperative agriculture. + Chapter 7 Final provisions + Article 28 For non-compliance with legal norms on: cultivation of agricultural land, maintenance of vineyards and orchards, execution of grassland care works, agricultural land occupation, arable land reduction, change of categories of use of agricultural land, the execution of compulsory agricultural works, the handling or preservation of agricultural products, as well as for non-compliance with other legal provisions in the field of agriculture, will apply to the guilty provided by law. + Article 29 Provisions contained in Law no. 4/1970 on the organisation of production and work in agriculture, Law no. 8/1971 for the organization, administration and use of meadows, zootechnical lots and semincere, as well as of communal mountain resorts, as other normative acts, contrary to the provisions of this law, are repealed. This law was passed by the Grand National Assembly at its meeting on March 29, 1974. President The Great National Assemblies, MIRON CONSTANTINESCU -------