State Acceptance of Production (), commonly abbreviated as State Acceptance (), was a procedure of

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of production of enterprises in late

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introduced under

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within the framework of ''

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'' (restructuring of Soviet economy and society). The corresponding organs at the enterprises were also called ''Gospriyomka''. The main state organ in charge was called Chief Administration of State Acceptance (Главное управление Государственной приёмки) and was subordinated to

Gosstandart Gosstandart () was the Soviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management. The name is an abbreviation for ''Gosudarstvennyy standart'' (‘State Standard’). History Established in 1925, as a committee f ...

, This initiative failed to achieve its goals in full. After the

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, the organ was abolished.

History

Since January 1, 1985, 19 machine-building enterprises were subject to an experiment: after the production was approved by the

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s, a special commission created by

performed additional selective checks. As a result, significant amounts of low-quality production were uncovered and rejected. This experience resulted in the introduction of a new procedure of quality assurance, ''Gospriyomka''."Legal Issues of the State Acceptance of Production"
Емельянова, М. Б., "Правовые вопросы государственной приемки". Правоведение. - 1987. - № 4. - С. 34 - 42 The statute about ''Gospriyomka'' was introduced by the Decree no. 542 of the

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on May 12, 1986. Unlike Technical Control Departments, organs of Gospriyomka were independent of the enterprise and the state managerial structures (''vedomstvo'') in control of the enterprise or the corresponding industry. ''Gospriyomka'' was put in force since January 1, 1987 at about 1500 enterprises. Later its scope widened. With the introduction of economic means of production control and the decrease of the dependence on state, such as

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(''samofinansirovanie'') and

khozraschyot ''Khozraschyot'' ( rus, хозрасчёт, p=ˌxozrɐˈɕːɵt; short for , 'economic accounting') was an attempt to introduce capitalist concepts of profit and profit center into the planned economy of the Soviet Union. ''Khozraschyot'' introd ...

, ''Gospriyomka'' was destined to decrease in importance, but the

collapse of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...

effectively stopped these developments.

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State Acceptance of Production Commission ('Gospriyomka')
Economy of the Soviet Union Quality assurance 1986 establishments in the Soviet Union {{soviet-stub

History

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