Still at issue are details, including when the plan would expire.

An exception was allowed for the Soviet Union, which would be permitted to freeze at levels prevailing in 1990, when its five-year plan expires.

Now that the plan has expired, experts say the company may have been granted the freedom to make a deal.

The current plan expires next year.

The road map's deadlines will pass without fanfare, and the plan itself will gradually expire without any formal declaration.

The last plan expired in 2004, and the Council blocked the Bloomberg administration's efforts to adopt a new plan during his first term.

However, on Jan. 1, 2002, the plan expired.

The state's current fiscal plan expires at midnight tonight.

Its current three-year plan expires on March 31, 2008.

Comecon's five-year plan for aid, trade and investment expires at the end of this year.