EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 118
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 118 - CREATING
THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON CULTURE AND ARTS
RECALLING
that the reorganization of the government is mandated expressly in
Article II, Section 1 (a), and Article III of the Freedom
Constitution;
HAVING IN MIND that pursuant to Executive Order No. 5 (1986), it is
directed that necessary and proper changes in the organizational and
functional structures of the government, its agencies and
instrumentalities, be effected in order to promote efficiency and
effectiveness in the delivery of public services;
AFFIRMING the government is committed to fulfill its constitutional
mandate of preserving and developing Philippine culture for national
identity and of placing arts and letters under the patronage of the
state;
MINDFUL of the fact that there is a need for a national body to
articulate a national policy on culture, to conserve and promote
national heritage, and to guarantee a climate of freedom, support and
dissemination for all forms of artistic and cultural
expression;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by the sovereign will of the Filipino
People and the Freedom Constitution, do hereby order:
Section 1. Title. — This Executive Order shall
otherwise be known as the Act Creating the Presidential Commission on
Culture and Arts.
Sec. 2. Name and Composition. — There is hereby
created a Presidential Commission on Culture and Arts, hereinafter
referred to as Commission, to be composed of the following:
(a)
Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, as chairman;
(b) Ministry
of Education, Culture and Sports Deputy Minister for Culture, as
member;
(c) Director
of the National Historical Institute, as member;
(d) President
of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, as members;
(e) Ministry
of Tourism Deputy Minister designated by the Minister of Tourism, as
member;
(f)
Representative from the Office of the President, as member.
Sec. 3. Mandate. — The Commission is hereby
mandated to formulate and maintain the national policy, support, and
dissemination frameworks for culture and the arts. To accomplish its
mandate, it shall have the following objectives:
(a)
Foster a sense of national identity and pride through the conservation
and promotion of our cultural patrimony and our national
heritage;
(b) Develop
and guarantee a climate of freedom and support for the multi-cultural
and pluralistic growth of all forms of art;
(c) Encourage
and assist where possible various forms of artistic and cultural
expression, in cooperation with the private sector;
(d) Work with
government and non-government agencies in the national and
international dissemination of culture and the arts.
Sec. 4. Powers and Functions. — To carry out its
mandate the Commission shall exercise the following powers and
functions:
(a)
Establish a secretariat, under the Deputy Minister for Culture as its
Executive Director, for the Administrative and day-to-day affairs of
the Commission;
(b) Conduct
consultations and meetings with individuals and groups of various
cultural and artistic subsectors for the purpose of establishing and
strengthening the national councils, as well as for ensuring people
participation in the formulation of national cultural policy;
(c) Coordinate
with various government and non-government artistic and cultural
institutions and agencies, and call upon any ministry, bureau, office
or agency of the government for assistance or reform, which shall
forthwith be furnished or accomplished by such government unit;
(d) Encourage
through the national councils, such participation as appropriate in the
formulation of strategies, policies, plans, programs, projects, funding
requirements and organizational changes for each subsector;
(e) Articulate
such national policies, promulgate such rules and regulations, and
carry out such activities as may support the preservation of cultural
heritage and the development of Philippine culture and the arts;
(f) Authorize
and effect such institutional or organizational transfers, mergers, or
changes that may eventually be recommended to it by the councils or by
the National Advisory Board;
(g) Assist in
the generation of resources, both governmental and non-governmental,
local, national and international, as may be appropriate in the
development, protection, preservation, or dissemination of Philippine
culture and the arts.
Sec. 5. National Committees. — To carry out its
mandate and objectives, the Commission shall be responsible for the
formation, operations, maintenance, and coordination of the following
fourteen (14) national committees grouped into the following three (3)
sub-commissions:
A.
Sub-Commission on Cultural Heritage
(1)
National Committee on Libraries and Archives;
(2) National
Committee on Museums and Galleries;
(3) National
Committee on Shrines and Monuments;
B.
Sub-Commission on the Arts
(4)
National Literary Arts Committee;
(5) National
Visual Arts Committee;
(6) National
Dramatic Arts Committee;
(7) National
Broadcast Arts Committee;
(8) National
Music Committee;
(9) National
Dance Committee;
(10) National
Film Committee;
C.
Sub-Commission on Cultural Dissemination
(11)
National Committee on Language and Translation;
(12) National
Committee on Cultural Events;
(13) National
Committee on Ethnic Culture and Traditional Arts;
(14) National
Committee on Cultural Education. The chairpersons of the foregoing
fourteen (14) committees shall form the National Advisory Board to the
Commission.
Sec. 6. Structure and Pattern. — The position
structure and staffing pattern of the Commission shall be approved and
prescribed by the Chairman within one hundred twenty days (120) days
from the approval of this Executive Order and the authorized positions
created thereunder shall be filled with regular appointments by him or
by the President, as the case may be.
Sec. 7. Periodic Performance Evaluation. — The
Chairman is hereby required to formulate and enforce a system of
measuring and evaluating periodically, and objectively the performance
of the Commission and submit the same annually to the President.
Sec. 8. Notice or Consent Requirement. — If any
reorganizational change herein authorized is of such substance or
materiality as to prejudice third persons with rights recognized by law
or contract such that notice to or consent of creditors is required to
be made or obtained pursuant to any agreement entered into with any of
such creditors, such notice or consent requirement shall be complied
with prior to the implementation of such reorganizational change.
Sec. 9. Prohibition Against Change. — No change
in the reorganization herein prescribed shall be valid except upon
prior approval of the President for the purpose of promoting efficiency
and effectiveness in the delivery of public services.
Sec. 10. Funding. — Subject to the availability
of funds, the amount of Ten Million Pesos (P10,000,000.00) is hereby
authorized to be set aside from the funds of the National Treasury and
made available for expenditure by the Commission, in accordance with
appropriate rules, regulations and procedures.
Sec. 11. Implementing Authority of Chairman. —
The Chairman shall issue such rules, regulations and other issuances as
may be necessary to ensure the effective implementation of the
provisions of this Executive Order.
Sec. 12. Separability. — Any portion or provision
of this Executive Order that may be declared unconstitutional shall not
have the effect of nullifying other portions or provisions hereof as
long as such remaining portions or provisions can still subsist and be
given effect in their entirety.
Sec. 13. Repealing Clause. — All laws, rules,
regulations, other issuances or parts thereof which are inconsistent
with this Executive Order, are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
Sec. 14. Effectivity. — This Executive Order
shall take effect immediately upon its approval.
APPROVED in the City of Manila,
Philippines, this 30th day of January, in the year of Our Lord,
nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.
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