General Planning Commission (France)

It was established by De Gaulle as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, on 3 January 1946.

[1]: 152  Monnet was appointed its first General Commissioner, a position he held until moving to Luxembourg in 1952 as first President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community.

[2]: 38  Its aims were: (1) to develop national production and foreign trade, particularly in those fields where France is most favourably placed; (2) to increase productivity; (3) to ensure the full employment of manpower; (4) to raise the standard of living and to improve the environment and the conditions of national life.

[2]: 98 In pursuit of its objectives, the General Planning Commission set production targets for 1950 according to the resources that were then expected to be available, starting with six crucial sectors: coal mining, steel, electricity, rail transport, cement, and farm machinery.

In 2001–2002, these extensions of the Planning Commission relocated from there to another government building in the same neighborhood at 113, rue de Grenelle.

Hôtel de Vogüé at 18 rue de Martignac, Paris, former head office of the General Planning Commission
Building at 30, rue Las Cases where the Plan expanded in the late 1960s
Jean Monnet (1888–1979), founding head of the General Planning Commission