Chapter 4: The System of Economic Law
4.2. Economic Planning Law -part 1-
The first division of the economic law system is economic planning law, and in response to the two-stage structure of a planned economy in which economic plans for each Zone are formulated based on a global framework economic plan in the World Commonwealth, the economic planning law that serves as the basis for this also has a two-stage structure of world law (treaty) and Zonal law. This structure is similar to environmental law.
World Economic Planning Law as a world law is a treaty that defines the content and formulation process of the framework economic plan formulated by the World Planned Economy Organization, a World Commonwealth organ, and it is legally binding on all Zones that make up the World Commonwealth.
In contrast, the Economic Planning Act as a Zonal law is a law that defines the content and formulation process of economic plans at the zonal level that are formulated by the Economic Planning Conference of each Zone within the framework of the overall economic plan based on the World Economic Planning Act, and can be said to be a specific branch of the World Economic Planning Act.
I plan to discuss the outline of these two-stage law-based economic planning in detail in my related series, Sustainable Planned Economy, so here I would like to focus in particular on issues related to enforcement, which is what makes the Economic Planning Act a "law."
The Economic Planning Act is indeed a legal norm, but the economic plan formulated based on this law is not itself a legal norm. However, because it binds economic planning entities as binding rules, the Economic Planning Act has an enforcement process for implementing the economic plans.
Corresponding to the two-stage structure described above, the enforcement of economic planning law is also divided into two stages: the world law level and the Zonal law level. At the world law level, the aforementioned World Economic Planning Organization itself can audit whether each Zone is complying with the overall framework established by the World Commonwealth.
On the other hand, enforcement at the Zonal law level is centered on auditing compliance with the economic plan established by the Economic Planning Conference and uncovering violations, and is carried out using more coercive measures; however, this poses some unique problems, so I will leave it for another article.
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