EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 130
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 130 -
REORGANIZING THE PRESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT STAFF, MERGING AND
CONSOLIDATING ALL OFFICES AND AGENCIES WHOSE FUNCTIONS OVERLAP AND/OR
ARE INTER-RELATED, DEFINING ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
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 its
instrumentalities, be effected in order to promote efficiency and
effectiveness in the delivery of public services;
REALIZING that the Presidential Management Staff has the primary
function of providing the management and technical staff support to the
Office of the President in the task of overseeing, coordinating and
managing the development process;
COGNIZANT of the importance of a Presidential support office that will
undertake policy and program studies and strong technical support for
the Office of the President and a development management office that
will initiate, catalyze and demonstrate new programs and projects that
must be carried out and sustained as regular national programs and
projects by the different line ministries and agencies of government;
REALIZING that it is the avowed policy of the new administration to
prevent dissipation of public resources by streamlining government
operations;
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 Reorganization Act of the Presidential
Management Staff.
Sec. 2. Reorganization. — The Office of
Development Management is hereby abolished and all its pertinent
functions together with applicable records, equipment and personnel as
may be are hereby transferred to the Presidential Management Staff in
accordance to the provisions of this Executive Order.
Sec. 3. Declaration of Policy. — It is hereby
declared the policy of the government, to strengthen the Office of the
President structurally and functionally in the performance of its
development management functions particularly with regard the analysis,
coordination and monitoring of critical national projects and programs.
The Office of the President through a high level support staff shall
pioneer, initiate, catalyze and/or demonstrate programs and projects
which will be carried out and sustained ultimately as regular national
programs and projects by line ministries and agencies.
Sec. 4. Mandate. — The Presidential Management
Staff (PMS) shall be the primary government agency directly responsible
to the Office of the President for providing staff assistance in the
Presidential exercise of overall management of the development process.
Sec. 5. Powers and Functions. — To accomplish its
mandate, the PMS shall have the following powers and functions:
(a)
Provide technical assistance and advice directly to the President in
exercising overall management of the development process;
(b) Analyze
and monitor national programs and projects;
(c) Formulate
and implement development management information systems and programs
that will include upgrading and strengthening the Office of the
President in terms of computer and communications technology for more
effective information management and decision management support;
(d) Conduct
continuing analysis and evaluation of economics, social and political
trends;
(e) Conduct
studies on methods for the effective and efficient execution of
development programs and projects;
(f) Conduct,
review, analysis and evaluation of proposed and existing policies
affecting development;
(g) Provide
centralized feedback mechanism on the implementation of national
government projects;
(h) Identify
bottlenecks in project implementation or problem areas and possible
sources of delays, and formulate solutions or corrective measures
thereto;
(i) Translate
Presidential perspective/insights, policies and plans on development
issues into strategic action programs/projects;
(j) Assist in
the coordination function for the President with respect to the
implementation of the various development programs of the Government;
(k) Implement
initial action on critical areas such as, but not limited to, the
National Reconciliation and Development Program, where the President
wishes to lead in piloting development initiatives that can
subsequently be turned over and directly managed by the line ministries;
(l) Provide a
direct feedback mechanism to and from the people and the Office of the
President;
(m) Exercise
direct control and supervision over such organizations, offices,
agencies, programs and projects as may be aligned/assigned/transferred
to the Office pursuant to the provisions of Administrative Orders Nos.
9 and 10 (January 5, 1987), or as provided in existing or subsequent
promulgations, orders and instructions of the President;
(n) Organize
and supervise such task forces as may be necessary to respond to
instructions from the President;
(o) Formulate,
implement, and supervise the government’s policies, plans and programs
pertaining to the technical support and development management
requirements of the President in accordance with Presidential
directives and administrative orders;
(p) Exercise
management supervision and control over all bureaus, agencies,
corporations, centers, councils, committees placed under the control of
the former Office of Development Management and such other agencies
placed under its supervision and control by the Office of the President;
(q) Establish
policies and implement programs for the efficient management and
operations of its Office and undertake research and such other
management measures of efficiency and economy that will redound to the
benefit of the Office and the achievement of its development management
objectives;
(r) Exercise
such other functions and powers as may be provided by law;
Sec. 6. Structural Organization. — The Office
shall consist of the Presidential Management Staff proper composed of
the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary and his immediate staff,
the Office of the two (2) Assistant Secretaries, and two (2) operations
groups:
(a)
The Presidential Policy and Management Group;
(b) The
Development Monitoring and Management Group.
Sec. 7. The Office of the Deputy Executive
Secretary. — The Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary shall consist
of the Deputy Executive Secretary and his immediate staff. The Deputy
Executive Secretary shall be appointed by the
President.
Sec. 8. Assistant Secretaries. — The Deputy
Executive Secretary shall be assisted by two (2) Assistant Secretaries,
who shall be appointed by the President upon the recommendation of the
Deputy Executive Secretary. The Deputy Executive Secretary is hereby
authorized to delineate and assign the respective functional areas of
responsibilities of the Two (2) Assistant Secretaries.
Sec. 9. Staff Support. — The Office of the Deputy
Executive Secretary shall be assisted by five (5) staff support
services, namely:
(a)
Administrative Service;
(b) Financial
Service;
(c) Legal
Service;
(d) External
Relations Service;
(e)
Communication and Information Service;
Sec. 10. The Presidential Policy and Management
Group. — This Office shall be composed of the existing organization of
the Presidential Management Staff and shall be internally reorganized
structurally and functionally in accordance with the provisions of this
Executive Order by the head of office of the Presidential Management
Staff.
Sec. 11. The Development Monitoring and Management
Group. — This Office shall be created from the existing. organization
and original offices of the Office of Development Management and shall
be internally reorganized structurally and functionally in accordance
with this Executive Order by the head of office of the PMS. All
regional offices and area coordinators of the existing ODM shall be
under this Office.
Sec. 12. Attached Agencies. — All agencies
formerly attached to the Office of Development Management shall now be
attached to the Presidential Management Staff. The PMS shall undertake
management studies and prepare recommendations for the proper
dispositive actions on these agencies and corporations, for submission
to the President. All dispositive actions will require Presidential
approval.
Sec. 13. Membership in Councils. — The head of the
PMS, in the performance of the functions for overseeing government
development plans and programs, shall sit as a member of the following
councils:
(a)
National Reconciliation and Development Council.
(b) Housing
and Urban Development Coordinating Council.
Sec. 14. Transitory Provisions. — In accomplishing
the acts of reorganization herein prescribed, the following transitory
provisions shall be complied with, unless otherwise provided elsewhere
in this Executive Order:
(a)
The transfer of a government unit shall include the functions,
appropriations, funds, records, equipment, facilities, choses in
action, rights, other assets, and liabilities, if any, of the
transferred unit, as well as the personnel thereof, as may be
necessary, who shall, in a hold-over capacity, continue to perform
respective duties and responsibilities and receive the corresponding
salaries and benefits unless in the meantime are separated from
government service pursuant to Executive Order No. 17 (1986) or Article
III of the Freedom Constitution. Those personnel from the transferred
unit whose positions are not included in the Office’s new position
structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the Deputy
Executive Secretary or who are not reappointed shall be deemed
separated from the service and shall be entitled to the benefits
provided in the second paragraph of Section 15 hereof.
(b) The
transfer of functions which results in the abolition of the government
unit that exercised them shall include the appropriations, funds,
records, equipment, facilities, choses in action, rights, other assets
and personnel as may be necessary to the proper discharge of the
transferred functions. The abolished unit’s remaining appropriations
and funds, if any, shall revert to the General Fund and its remaining
assets, if any, shall be allocated to such appropriate units as the
Deputy Executive Secretary shall determine or shall otherwise be
disposed in accordance with the Government Auditing Code and other
pertinent laws, rules and regulations. Its liabilities, if any, shall
likewise be treated in accordance with the Government Auditing Code and
other pertinent laws, rules and regulations. Its personnel shall, in a
hold-over capacity, continue to perform their duties and
responsibilities and receive the corresponding salaries and benefits
unless in the meantime they are separated from the service pursuant to
Executive Order No. 17 (1986) or Article III of the Freedom
Constitution. Its personnel whose positions are not included in the
office’s structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the
Deputy Executive Secretary under Section 15 hereof or who is not
reappointed, shall be deemed separated from the service and shall be
entitled to the benefits provided in the second paragraph of the same
Section 15.
(c) Any
transfer of functions which does not result in the abolition of the
government unit that has exercised them shall include the
appropriations, funds, records, equipment, facilities, choses in
action, rights, and assets and personnel as may be necessary to the
proper discharge of the transferred functions from the service any,
that may have been incurred in connection with the discharge of the
transferred functions, shall be treated in accordance with the
Government Auditing Code and other pertinent laws, rules and
regulations. Such personnel shall, in a hold-over capacity, continue
top perform their duties and responsibilities and receive the
corresponding salaries and benefits unless in the meantime they are
separated from the service pursuant to Executive Order No. 17 (1986) or
Article III of the Freedom Constitution. Any personnel, whose position
is not included in the Office’s new position structure and staffing
pattern approved and prescribed by the Deputy Executive Secretary under
Section 15 hereof or who is not reappointed, shall be deemed separated
from the service and shall be entitled to the benefits provided in the
second paragraph of the same Section 15.
(d) In case of
the abolition of the government unit which does not result in the
transfer of its functions to another unit, the appropriations and funds
of the abolished entity shall revert to the General Fund, while the
records, equipment, facilities, choses in action, rights, and other
assets thereof shall be allocated to such appropriate entities as the
Deputy Executive Secretary shall determine or shall otherwise be
disposed in accordance with the Government Auditing Code and other
pertinent laws, rules and regulations. The liabilities of the abolished
units shall be treated in accordance with the Government Auditing Code
and other pertinent laws, rules and regulations, while the personnel
thereof, whose position, is not included in the Office’s new position
structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the Deputy
Executive Secretary under Section 15 hereof or who has not been
reappointed, shall be deemed separated from the service and shall be
entitled to the benefits provided in the second paragraph of the same
Section 15.
(e) In case of
merger or consolidation of government units, the new or surviving unit
shall exercise the functions subject to the reorganization herein
prescribed and the laws, rules and regulations pertinent to the
exercise of such functions, and shall acquire the appropriations,
funds, records, equipment, facilities, choses in action, rights, other
assets, liabilities, if any, and personnel, as may be necessary of the
units that compose the merged unit shall, in a hold-over capacity,
continue to perform their respective duties and responsibilities and
receive the corresponding salaries and benefits unless in the meantime
they are separated from the service pursuant to Executive Order No. 17
(1986) or Article III of the Freedom Constitution. Any such personnel,
whose position is not included in the Office’s new position structure
and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the Deputy Executive
Secretary under Section 15 hereof or who are not reappointed, shall be
deemed separated from the service and shall be entitled to the benefits
provided in the second paragraph of the same Section 15.
(f) In case of
termination of a function which does not result in the abolition of the
government unit which perform such function, the appropriations and
funds intended to finance the discharge of such function shall revert
to the General Fund while the records, equipment, facilities, choses in
action, rights and other assets used in connection with the discharge
of such function shall be allocated to the appropriate units as the
office shall determine or shall otherwise be disposed in accordance
with the Government Auditing Code and other pertinent laws, rules and
regulations. The liabilities, if any, that may have been incurred in
connection with the discharge of such function shall likewise be
treated in accordance with the Government Auditing Code and other
pertinent laws, rules and regulations. The personnel who have performed
such function, whose positions are not included in the Office’s new
position structure and staffing pattern approved and prescribed by the
Deputy Executive Secretary under Section 15 hereof or who have not been
reappointed, shall be deemed separated from the service and shall be
entitled to the benefits provided in the second paragraph of the same
Section 15 hereof.
Sec. 15. New Structure and Pattern. — Upon
approval of this Executive Order, the officers and employees of the
Office, in a hold-over capacity, continue to perform their respective
duties and responsibilities and receive the corresponding salaries and
benefits unless in the meantime they are separated from government
service pursuant to Executive Order No. 17 (1986) or Article III of the
Freedom Constitution.
The new position structure and staffing pattern of the Office shall be
approved and prescribed by the Deputy Executive Secretary within one
hundred and twenty (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.
Those incumbents whose positions are not included therein or who are
not reappointed shall be deemed separated from the service. Those
separated from the service shall receive the retirement benefits to
which they may be entitled under existing laws, rules and regulations.
Otherwise, they shall be paid the equivalent of one (1) month basic
salary for every year of service in the government, or a fraction
thereof, computed on the basis of the highest salary received, but in
no case such payment exceed the equivalent of twelve (12) months salary.
No court or administrative body shall issue any writ or preliminary
injunction or restraining order to enjoin the separation/replacement of
any officer or employee effected under this Executive Order.
Sec. 16. Periodic Performance Evaluation. — The
Office is hereby required to formulate and enforce a system of
measuring and evaluating periodically and objectively the performance
of the Office and submit the same annually to the President.
Sec. 17. Notice or Consent Requirement. — If any
reorganizational change herein authorized is of such substance of
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. 18. Prohibition Against Structural Changes. —
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. 19. Funding. — In addition to the existing
appropriations of the Presidential Management Staff, transitional
funding to the Presidential Management Staff is hereby authorized in
the amount of TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO MILLION PESOS
(P232,000,000.00) to carry out the provisions of this Executive Order,
to be taken from the Compensation and Organizational Adjustment Fund
(COAF) of the General Appropriations Act (1987).
Sec. 20. Implementing Authority of the Deputy
Executive Secretary. — The Deputy Executive Secretary shall issue such
orders, rules and regulations and other issuances as may be necessary
to ensure-the effective implementation of the provisions of this
Executive Order.
Sec. 21. 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. 22. Repealing Clause. — All laws, ordinances,
rules, regulations and other issuances or parts thereof, which are
inconsistent with this Executive Order, are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.
Sec. 23. 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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