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How the plan is made
A five-year cycle in which councils state, a secretariat computes, and each level negotiates what the level below could not settle.
Six stages
Registration of needs and statements from workplaces and neighbourhoods. Computation of provisional balances, publishing every deficit and surplus. At least three rounds of negotiation. Reconciliation and adoption. Execution with in-year adjustment. A public account of the period, examined by the assemblies that supplied its inputs.
Who states what
Each workplace publishes what it needs in materials, energy, labour, equipment and knowledge, what it can produce, and its ecological account. Each neighbourhood and each body of users publishes what it is receiving and what it lacks. Neither statement outranks the other.
Upward only on failure
A matter is decided at the lowest level where its effects fall. A level passes a question upward only when it has failed to reconcile it, and passes it with the positions of the parties and the reasons they disagreed. The National Planning Congress resolves what the levels below could not.
Computation assists, people decide
The Planning Secretariat collects statements, computes balances, prepares variants, and holds no power of decision. Its code and methods are public. No automated system decides anything, under the general rule in Article 51(5).
When it goes wrong
Delay never interrupts essential provision, which continues on the previous period's quantities. Anyone may sue if the plan fails the minimum core, departs from the order of priority, breaches a budget, or if the participation the text requires simply did not happen.