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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 300 -
FURTHER STRENGTHENING THE PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
SYSTEM AND CLARIFYING THE AUTHORITY TO GRANT OR DENY THE ISSUANCE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES
WHEREAS, Sec. 4, of Presidential Decree
No. 1586 establishing the Philippine Environmental Impact Statement
System empowers the President or his duly authorized representative to
grant or deny the issuance of environmental compliance certificates
(ECCs) for environmentally critical areas;
WHEREAS, Sec. 7 of Executive
order No. 192 providing for the reorganization of the Department of
Environment , Energy, and Natural Resources and renaming it as the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) vests in the
Secretary of the DENR the authority and responsibility to exercise the
mandate of the DENR, accomplish its objective and discharge its powers
and functions;
WHEREAS, the Secretary of DENR,
as alter ego of the President, is deemed to have the implied power to
grant or deny the issuance of ECCs on behalf of the President;
WHEREAS, under Sec. 21,
Chapter 4, Title XIV, Book IV of Executive Order No. 292, Instituting
the Administrative Code of 1987, the DENR Regional Offices are
responsible for, inter alia, implementing laws, policies, plans,
programs, projects, rules and regulations of the DENR to promote the
sustainability and productivity of natural resources, social equity in
natural resource utilization and environmental protection in their
respective regions;
WHEREAS, the DENR Regional
Executive Director, as the highest officer of the DENR in each Regional
Office, is directly charged with carrying out said responsibility;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V.
RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in
me by Constitution, do hereby confirm the power of the Secretary of the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the DENR Regional
Executive Directors to grant or deny the issuance of environmental
compliance certificates (ECCs).
This Administrative Order shall
take effect immediately.
DONE in the
City of Manila, this 4th day of November in the year of Our Lord,
Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six.
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