Purpose: The purpose of this code is to organize, regulate and link the National Decentralized System of Participative Planning with the National System of Public Finances, and to regulate its operation at the different levels of the public sector, within the framework of the development regime, the regime of good living, constitutional guarantees and rights. The provisions of this code regulate the exercise of planning competencies and the exercise of public policy at all levels of government, the National Development Plan, the development and land use plans of the Decentralized Autonomous Governments, the four-year budget programming of the Public Sector, the General State Budget, the other budgets of public entities, and all public resources and other instruments applicable to Planning and Public Finance.