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Soviet Union [USSR] Legislative Process
The legislative process has worked in a very formalized manner.
For example, the Ministry of Finance, Gosplan, and other
institutions submitted economic planning documents to the Soviet of
the Union's Planning, Budgeting, and Finance Commission and to
other Supreme Soviet commissions and committees and to republic
representatives. Deputies of the various commissions and committees
of both chambers and other individuals met to review the documents,
hear expert testimony, make amendments, and submit the economic
plan to the Supreme Soviet. The minister of finance and the
chairman of the Council of Ministers submitted their own reports as
well.
The Supreme Soviet, after debate, traditionally disposed of the
plan with a resolution and a law. The resolution noted reports on
the plan delivered by the chairman of Gosplan and the minister of
finance. It evaluated the work of the Council of Ministers in
fulfilling the previous year's plan and instructed the Council of
Ministers to examine proposals prepared by the commissions and
committees and those comments made by deputies in the debate and
then to take appropriate action. The Law of the Plan formally
ratified the plan, taking into account the work of the commissions
and committees and setting out in detail budget and plan targets
for the following year.
Data as of May 1989
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