Section 1. There is hereby established the
Presidential Coordinating System for the Executive Department, to be
composed of:
The latter two shall be appointed by the President with the rank of a
Cabinet Secretary.
The President or, in her absence, the Executive Secretary shall call
and preside over the meetings of the Presidential Coordinating System
and may ask, from time to time, other Cabinet Secretaries to attend
such meetings.
Sec. 2. The Presidential Coordinating Secretaries
shall assist the President in the management of the operations of the
executive departments, including their attached agencies, as well as in
the liaison with Constitutional Commissions and offices, the Judicial
and Legislative Departments. They shall report directly to the
President on matters falling within their areas of responsibility.
The Presidential Coordinating Secretaries shall be members of the
National Economic and Development Authority Board.
Sec. 3. (a) The Presidential Coordinating
Secretary for Political and Security Affairs shall be responsible for
monitoring, coordinating and facilitating the operations and activities
of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, National Defense, Justice, Local
Government, and other offices involved in peace and order, law
enforcement, national security, good government, public ethics and
accountability as well as for maintaining close liaison with the
Constitutional Commissions and offices and the Judicial and Legislative
Departments.
(b) The Presidential Coordinating Secretary for
Agro-Industrial, Economic and Financial Affairs shall be responsible
for monitoring coordinating and facilitating the operations and
activities of the Departments of Budget and Management, Finance,
Agriculture, Agrarian Reform, Environment and Natural Resources,
Tourism, Trade and Industry, Science and Technology, Public Works and
Highways, Transportation and Communications, the NEDA Secretariat, and
their attached agencies as well as maintaining close liaison with the
Central Bank of the Philippines, and the Monetary Board.
(c) The Presidential Coordinating Secretary for Human
Resources and Public Welfare shall be responsible for monitoring,
coordinating, and facilitating the operations and activities of the
Departments of Health, Education, Culture and Sports, Labor and
Employment, Social Welfare and Development, their attached agencies and
other offices involved in public information, housing, urban and rural
development and public assistance.
Sec. 4. Each Presidential Coordinating Secretary
shall have such number of Deputy Presidential Coordinating Secretaries
with the rank of Undersecretary as may be necessary, to be appointed by
the President. The Deputy Presidential Coordinating Secretary shall
assist the Presidential Coordinating Secretary in performing his
functions.
Sec. 5. The Presidential Management Staff shall
serve as the common administrative research and technical secretariat
to the Presidential Coordinating Secretaries. The head of the
Presidential Management Staff shall have the rank of a Cabinet
Secretary.
Sec. 6. The Executive Secretary shall continue to
act on matters referred to the Office of the President, attend to
matters internal to the Office of the President, including the
administration of the operations of the Office of the President, and be
responsible for the offices and agencies attached to or under the
Office of the President as defined by law. He shall continue to
exercise the specific functions and powers provided for in Book III,
Title III, Chapter 9(B), Sec. 27 of the Administrative Code of
1987.
Sec. 7. The Department Secretaries shall continue
to perform their respective duties and functions as heads of the
departments, and be responsible directly to the President for their
departments.
Sec. 8. The Office of the President shall provide
the necessary funds from its appropriation or any applicable
appropriation in the General Appropriations Act for the operations of
the Presidential Coordinating System.
Sec. 9. Nothing herein contained shall be
interpreted to diminish the President’s power of control of all the
executive departments, bureaus and offices.
Sec. 10. This Executive Order shall take effect
immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 5th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety.
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