The concept of the modernization of national economic planning

Based on the audits conducted by the State Audit Office (SAO) and the analyses prepared by its research institute, we do not think that Hungary has such national economic planning in place by relying on which the challenges posed by our global and EU convergence can be met by comprehensive solutions. This is why we aimed to prepare a study that pro poses concepts of modernizing such planning on the basis of four basic principles. These are as follows: the creation of the conditions required for developing the logical system of planning; the creation of a higher level of synchronicity with the EU's planning and decision-making cycle from the side of domestic planning; the development of a system of national economic planning to replace the fragmented plan ning activities, as well as the creation of conditions for an open and transparent, comprehensively con trolled planning system, and the active participation of the representatives of the civil sector in the latter. In the article, the key directions of the actions proposed for the realization of the concept are also described.