EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 265
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 265 - ATING THE
AURORA INTEGRATED AREA DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OFFICE, PROVIDING FUNDS
THEREOF AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
I,
CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:
Section 1. Declaration of Policy. — The Aurora
Integrated Area Development Project, hereinafter referred to as the
Project, is hereby declared as a project of the National Government
under the direct supervision of the National Council on Integrated Area
Development, hereinafter referred to as the NACIAD.
Sec. 2. Creation of the Aurora Integrated Area
Development Project Office. — There is hereby created an Aurora
Integrated Area Development Project Office, hereinafter referred to as
the Project Office, which shall be responsible to the NACIAD for the
implementation of the project and its components in cooperation with
the designated regional and provincial implementing units of
participating agencies. For this purpose, the Project Office shall
establish the appropriate budgeting and financing system in
coordination with the Department of Budget and Management and for
concerned agencies.
The Project Office shall be headed by a Project Director who shall be
appointed by the Chairman of NACIAD upon recommendation of the NACIAD
Executive Director.
Sec. 3. Creation, Composition and Functions of the
Executive Steering Committee and the Technical Advisory Committee. —
For the purpose of providing operating policies and guidelines in the
implementation and coordination of the project there is hereby
established an Executive Steering Committee chaired by the NACIAD
Executive Director and composed of the duly designated national or
regional representatives of the participating implementing agencies and
the provincial government. The Project Director shall act as secretary
of the Committee.
To assist the Project Director in the management of the project, there
is hereby created a Technical Advisory Committee to be composed of the
provincial heads of the implementing agencies and concerned provincial
government units and to be chaired by the Project Director.
Sec. 4. Creation of an Aurora Integrated Area
Development Project Fund. — The proceeds of the grant assistance
obtained from the European Economic Community shall be constituted into
an Aurora Integrated Area Development Project Fund under Chapter XXXV.
Integrated Area Development Projects Fund of the General Appropriations
Act to finance partially the implementation of the Project. The
Department of Budget and Management in consultation with the NACIAD and
the concerned departments/agencies shall issue the appropriate
guidelines for the utilization of the Fund and the mechanics of its
administration.
The appropriate Philippine Government contribution or counterpart fund
for each of the Project components shall be made available through the
established budgetary systems and procedures.
Sec. 5. Operating Expenses. — The amount of six
million five hundred thousand pesos (P6,500,000.00) is hereby allotted
from any applicable lump sum fund under the CY 1987 General
Appropriations Act to cover the initial operating expenses of the
Project. For the succeeding fiscal year and until its termination, such
amounts as may be necessary for the budgetary requirement of the
Projects shall be provided for in the Annual General Appropriations
Act.
Sec. 6. Auditing Procedures. — The Commission on
Audits shall establish a resident unit attached to the Project Office
to certify all expenditures based on the annual work and financial plan
of the Project. The financial transactions of the Project shall be
audited in accordance with existing law, rules and regulations.
Sec. 7. Separability Clause. — If any provisions
of this Executive Order shall be held unconstitutional or invalid, the
other provisions shall remain effective.
Sec. 8. Repealing Clause. — Letter of Instructions
No. 1499 dated December 18, 1985 is hereby repealed. All laws, orders,
issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with
this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
Sec. 9. Effectivity. — This Executive Order shall
take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 25th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-seven.
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