EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 634 - CREATING THE REGIONAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE OFFICES IN REGIONS IX AND XII

WHEREAS, it is the consistent policy of the government to extend every possible national support to the Autonomous Governments of Regions IX and XII and to the Commission for Islamic Affairs created by Presidential Decree No. 1618 and Executive Order No. 569, respectively, in order to accelerate the rehabilitation and development of Mindanao;

WHEREAS, the integrated cooperatives development programs implemented in Regions IX and XII have shown tremendous accomplishments in the pacification and development drive of the government; and  

WHEREAS, it is necessary that a Regional Cooperatives Development Assistance Office for each of Regions IX and XII be created to further enhance the socio-economic, cultural and political growth of the two regions;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. There is hereby created a Regional Cooperatives Development Assistance Office each for Regions IX and XII, to be headed by an Executive Director who shall be appointed by the President of the Philippines, which shall implement the integrated cooperatives development programs in the two regions.

Sec. 2. The Regional Cooperatives Development Assistance Offices for the two regions shall be under the direction and supervision of the Bureau of Cooperatives Development of the Ministry of Agriculture pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 175 and Executive Order No. 595, with coordinate support of the Commission for Islamic Affairs and the Autonomous Governments of Regions IX and XII;

Sec. 3. All properties, personnel and responsibilities of the present Regional Cooperatives Development Task Forces in Regions IX and XII, and such funds as are allocated to these Task Forces under the budgetary provisions for the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development and the Regional Autonomous Governments are hereby transferred to the Regional Cooperatives Development Assistance Offices of Regions IX and XII.

Sec. 4. All Letters of Instructions, orders, rules and regulations inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

Sec. 5. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 4th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.