ACTA JURIDICA - A MTA Jogtudományi Közleményei Tom. 24 (1982)

1982 / 1-2. sz. - SZILBEREKY JENŐ: Ten years of CMEA legal conference

2 J. Szilhereky According to the paper, the survey of the work indicates that the activity displayed in ten years by the Legal Conference of CMEA serves with good results the provision for legal conditions of the co-operation of the member-countries. I. The significance of the economic integration of socialist countries increases. Thirty years after the establishment of the Council of Mutual Economic Aid (further on: CMEA) it is obvious that the member-countries of CMEA have developed qualitatively new economic relations. This economic community differs from all other international economic groupings since it is based on voluntary principle, on mutual advantages, on the aid, and it does not constitute a supra-national organization, is not directed against the interests of any non-member country and it does not impede the economic relations of its member-countries to any other country of the world. Since the foundation of the socialist economic community considerable results have been produced. This fact is proved by the social and economic development of the member-countries of CMEA. In the last decade the economic development of the member-countries of CMEA can be considered significant as compared either to the world economy or to any other regional economic grouping. Thirty years ago the CMEA member-countries manufactured 17.8 per cent of the industrial production of the world, today this share amounts to 33 per cent. The industrial production per one person has increased on world scale by 3.2 per cent during these thirty years. This increase has been threefold in the member-countries of CMEA as compared to the above world average. The progress in the agriculture and in the food production is also significant. The production per one person has increased in the last twenty years on world-scale by 7 per cent, whereas in the CMEA countries by 31 per cent. The most important fact is, however, that the socialist international labour division has promoted to the possibilities of the development of socialist economic system within the individual countries. The productivity has increased, the production structure has been modernized and the living standards of the inhabitants of CMEA-countries not only increased but—where differences were to be found—also approached to each other. Beside the above-mentioned results surveyed schematically, there are also problems in the economy of all socialist countries. In 1980 the agricultural production declined in some countries. The increase of national income achieved the planned value only with difficulties. In consequence of these there are still many tasks to be solved, especially in view of the present situation having evolved at the world market. The most important is now the encouraging of the co-operation for increasing the efficiency of economy. From this point of view, the enforcement of the Complex Program adopted in 1971 at the 25th Session of CMEA as well as the realization of complex long-range objective programs of co-operation elaborated since that time are of fundamental importance. These objective programs promote the systematic development in the most significant economic branches—such as energy, production of raw materials, machine Acta Juridica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 24. 1982

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