2. Government bills in relation to the Major Options shall be accompanied by reports setting out the
grounds for them.
3. National Plans shall be implemented on a decentralised, regional and sectoral basis.
Article 92
(Economic and Social Council)
1. The Economic and Social Council is the organ with responsibility for consultation and concertation in
the economic and social policy domain, shall take part in drafting the Major Options and the economic
and social development plans, and shall exercise any other functions allocated to it by law.
2. The law shall define the composition of the Economic and Social Council, which shall particularly
include representatives of the Government, of the organisations that represent workers, economic
activities and families, of the autonomous regions and of local authorities.
3. The law shall also define the way in which the Economic and Social Council is organised and its
modus operandi, together with the status and role of its members.
TITLE III
Agricultural, commercial and industrial policies
Article 93
(Agricultural policy objectives)
1. The objectives of the agricultural policy shall be:
a) To increase agricultural production and productivity by providing agriculture with adequate
infrastructures and human, technical and financial resources that will work towards an increase in
competitivity and to ensure the quality of its products, their effective marketing and sale, an improved
supply for the country and a rise in exports;
b) To promote the improvement of the economic, social and cultural situation of rural workers and
farmers, the development of the rural world, the rationalisation of the structure of land ownership, the
modernisation of the business fabric, and the access by those that work the land to ownership or
possession of the land itself and of the other means of production that they directly employ thereon;
c) To create the conditions needed to achieve effective equality between those who work in agriculture
and other workers and to prevent the agricultural sector from being disadvantaged in its exchanges with
other sectors;
d) To ensure the rational use and management of the soil and other natural resources and to maintain their
regenerative capability;
e) To encourage farmers to form and join associations and to directly work the land.
2. The state shall promote a policy of agrarian planning and reconversion and forestry development, in
accordance with the ecological and social factors that condition the country.
Article 94