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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS
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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 601 |
Other Department and Agency Heads Concerned
In order to ensure quick and effective inter-agency coordination in the formulation and implementation of government policies relating to social development, trade, tariff and related matters, infrastructure development and statistical development, you are hereby directed to constitute yourselves into the following NEDA Committees:
1.
Committee on Social Development, consisting of the following:
The
Secretary of Education and Culture
The Secretary of Labor
The Secretary of Health
The Secretary of Social Services
and Development
The Secretary of Local
Governments and Community
Development
The Secretary of Agrarian Reform
The Chairman of the Human
Settlements Commission
The Secretary of Economic
Planning
Said Committee shall have the
following duties and responsibilities:
a. To advise
the President and the NEDA Board on matters concerning social
development, including education, manpower, health and nutrition,
population and family planning, housing, human settlements and the
delivery or conduct of other social services;
b. To
coordinate the activities of individual agencies and instrumentalities
of the government concerned with social development;
c. To review
and formulate government policies, programs and projects on social
development consistent with national development objectives and
priorities; and
d. To monitor
regularly developments, both local and international, affecting the
delivery or conduct of social services.
A technical committee based at
the NEDA shall render the necessary technical and secretariat
assistance to the Committee which shall consist of representatives from
the above departments and offices, including one representative each
from the National Housing Authority, Population Commission and Food and
Nutrition Research Council and such line agencies and government
corporations as may be required.
2. Committee on Trade, Tariff and Related Matters, consisting of the following:
The
Secretary of Trade
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs
The Secretary of Finance
The Secretary of Industry
The Secretary of Agriculture
The Secretary of Natural
Resources
The Governor of the Central Bank
The Secretary of Economic
Planning
The Chairman of the Tariff
Commission
Said Committee shall have the
following duties and responsibilities:
a. To advise
the President and the NEDA Board on trade, tariff and related matters,
including those pertaining to bilateral and multilateral economic
negotiations in which the country is involved;
b. To advise
the President and the NEDA Board about the effects on the country of
various international developments;
c. To
coordinate individual agency positions and formulate and review
national positions for international economics negotiations;
d. To review
as appropriate and to coordinate with the Secretary of Foreign Affairs
the organization of negotiating panels; and
e. To
undertake the continuous rationalization of the country's tariff
structure.
The NEDA Inter-Agency Technical
Committee on Trade, Tariff and Related Matters (TTRM) shall provide the
necessary technical and secretariat support to the Committee.
The
Secretary of Public Works, Transportation
and Communications
The Secretary of Public Highways
The Secretary of Finance
The Commissioner of the Budget
The Secretary of Economic
Planning
Said Committee shall have the
following duties and responsibilities:
a. To advise
the President and the NEDA Board on matters concerning infrastructure
development including Highways; Airports; Seaports and Shore
Protection; Railways; Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution;
Telecommunications; Irrigation, Flood control and Drainage, Water
Supply; National Buildings for Government Offices; Hospitals, Sanitaria
and related building, State Colleges and Universities, Elementary and
Secondary School Buildings; and other Public Works;
b. To
coordinate the activities of agencies including government-owned and
controlled corporations concerned with infrastructure development;
c. To review
and formulate government policies, programs and projects concerning
infrastructure development consistent with national development
objectives and priorities; and
d. To monitor
regularly developments and implementation of infrastructure programs
and projects.
A
Technical Committee based at the NEDA and composed of an inter-agency
grouping shall render the necessary technical and secretariat
assistance to the Committee.
The
Secretary of Labor
The Secretary of Finance
The Governor of the Central Bank
The Secretary of Agriculture
The Secretary of Natural
Resources
The Secretary of Industry
The Secretary of Health
The Secretary of Education and
Culture
The Secretary of Economic
Planning
The Commissioner of the Budget
The Chairman, Statistical
Advisory Board, Ex-officio member
Said Committee shall have the
following functions and duties:
a. To act on
behalf of NEDA Board, upon recommendation of Statistical Advisory
Board, on statistical policy matters;
b. To initiate
or formulate Presidential Decrees, Letter of Instructions, memorandum
circular to ensure implementation of decisions; and
c. To resolve
problems of statistical coordination generated by the proliferation of
statistical surveys conducted by agencies of the government and the
private institutions.
The
Secretary of Economic Planning (NEDA Director-General) shall act as
Chairman of all the aforementioned Committees and is hereby empowered
to call on any government office, agency or instrumentality affected by
their decisions or whose programs will require coordination by the
Committees.
The operations of the committees
shall be supported by financial contributions from the various agencies
represented in the Cabinet Committees as well as the Inter-Agency
Technical Committees.
This LOI supplements the present
structure of the NEDA Committees, e.g., Investment Coordinating
Committee, (ICC), Development Budget Coordinating Committee (DBCC),
Committee on ASEAN Economic Cooperation (CAEC), Cabinet Committee on
Integrated Area development Projects and Committee on Major National
Projects.
The provisions of this Letter of Instructions shall take effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.
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