The Assessment of Regulatory Mechanism of the Fifth Development Plan

Regulatory mechanism is one of the major issues that in any development are considered by legislators and plays a considerable role in succeeding plan. In this paper, the effectiveness of regulatory mechanism on the fourth and fifth development plans is assessed. To do this, the first general methods of legislative oversight over development plans and characteristics required for an index (expected in control) is presented. Then regulatory mechanism of the fourth and fifth development plans has been studied comparatively from the perspective of compliance with the monitoring methods and the amount of the coverage of characteristics required for an index. Considering the degree of similarity of regulatory structure of the fifth development plan with the fourth development plan and assess the effectiveness of regulatory mechanism on the fourth development plan through the study of annual monitoring reports of the fourth development plans (and achieving regulatory objectives of the plan), expected results of the effectiveness of regulatory mechanism on the fifth development plan have been enumerated: "Expected effectiveness of monitoring the fifth development plan wont be much different from the effectiveness level of the fourth development plan." Also shown in this article that regulatory mechanism of the fourth development plan hasnt been effective and expected results of monitoring the plan hasnt met. Accordingly in this paper, a regulatory mechanism has been proposed that in fact is supplementary regulatory mechanism for the fifth development plan. Proposal basis is linking the annual budget and development plan in which annual monitoring reports presented by the government is evaluated by the Supreme Audit Court and the evaluation will be one of the variables affecting the decision making process of the annual budget allocation.