text: Sciences. Academies of Sciences of the union republ lcs. organs of the agriculture an~ health care, which are financed by the state budget, also carry out certain scientific-research work on conditions of contracts with the enterprises and organizations of the customers. When the USSR Committee for Science and Technology plans the scope of economic contractual works for the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Academies of Sciences of the union republics and the branch academies, It proceeds from the necessity of maintaining the optimum level of fundamental research. When planning and financing of scientific-research, experimental-designing and technological works, great attention Is rendered to economic contractual works, because the latter assist In accelerating the development and Introduction of new technologies. and the fulfilment of works by contracts contributes to Introducing the self-supporting system. PROCEDURES FOR FINANCING The USSR State Committee for Science and Technology together with the USSR State Planning Committee, USSR State Committee for Construction. USSR Academy of Sciences, USSR Ministry of Finance and with participation of USSR ministries and departments has elaborated and affirmed a Standard Instruction for concluding economic contracts and Issuing lntermlnlsterlal orders for scientific-research, experimental-designing and technological work• which should be followed when concluding economic contracts. This Instruction envisages the conditions of the contracts and lnterminlsterlal orders~ cost and order of payments, order of changing and cancel I lng contracts (orders), responsibl !ties of the executor and customer. The decision No. 695 " On plannin~ and Intensifying the effect of the economic mechanism on Increasing the effectiveness 374i of production and quality of work", adopted In 1979, has given further Impetus to the development~of the principles of the self­ supporting system in scientific-research work. In particular, this decision determines to complete the transfer of scientifiC and designing organizations and enterprises of lndustrtal ministries to the. new system of planning, financing and economiC 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the organization and financing of scientific research in the Soviet Union, with a focus on the role of the state and the USSR Academy of Sciences in planning and funding research projects. The text also mentions the development of a self-supporting system in scientific research, which suggests that the topic is closely related to economic development and industry.