In France, legal phenomena of planning have advanced a new progress in accordance with a new development of economic policy after 1967. In the first period, up to 1963, an idea of planning interlocked with state conducting of economy had been denied under the economic policy of social market. Through the second period of transition, however, the third period after 1967 is characterised by the fact that planning has been actively introduced as the means of the state to guide the economy under the policy of general directing.