Presidential Decree No. 1200 (PD 1200) — Approving and Adopting the Five-Year Philippine Development Plan for 1978 to 1982 and Promulgating a Ten-Year Development Plan for 1978 to 1987 and a Long-Term Development Plan up to the Year 2000.
WHEREAS, following extensive public hearings in the
national, regional and sectoral levels on a proposed Five-Year Social and
Economic Development Plan for 1978 to 1982, a Ten-Year Development Plan for 1978
to 1987 and a Long-Term Development Plan up to the year 2000, the drafts of the
aforesaid Plans were submitted for consideration to the Batasang Bayan during
its session on August 27, 1977;
WHEREAS, after due deliberation thereon, the Batasang Bayan
in its Resolution No.68, dated August 27, 1977, resolved to give the National
Government through the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) a vote
of confidence to finalize the above-mentioned Plans and to recommend to the
President the approval thereof provided that the Plans should place
continued emphasis on self-reliance in basic needs, rural development and
agrarian reform, expansion of industry including tourism, accelerated
investments in economic and social infrastructure projects such as power,
transport, irrigation and water supply, communication, education, hospital and
health care, housing and other forms of social services and, in general on
improving the quality of life of the people;
WHEREAS, the Plans have been finalized and their substantive
thrust follows the guidelines indicated by the Batasang Bayan, in that
particular attention has devoted to rural development, self-reliance, national
resource management, environment sanitation and, above all, social justice;
WHEREAS, the Cabinet Committee created to prepare, review
and evaluate the draft plans has accordingly recommended the approval of the
same, during its meeting on September 15,1977;
WHEREAS, it is also essential to imbue the Plans with the
flexibility necessary to meet unexpected developments arising from the present
uncertain condition of the world economy and to designate the institutional
mechanism to effectuate that flexibility in the Plans;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the
Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the
Constitution, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Batasang Bayan
duly assembled as representative of the people, do hereby order and decree:
Approval and Adoption of Five-Year Philippine Development Plan.
SECTION 1. Approval and Adoption of Five-Year Philippine
Development Plan.—The draft Five-Year Social and Economic Development Plan
for 1978 to 1982 prepared and finalized by the National Government through the
Cabinet Committee created to prepare, review and evaluate the Plans and the NEDA
pursuant to the recommendation of the Batasang Bayan in its Resolution No. 68
dated August 27, 1977 is hereby approved and adopted as the Five-Year Philippine
Development Plan for 1978 to 1982.
Government activities to conform with Five-Year Plan.
SEC. 2. Government activities to conform with Five-Year
Plan.—All developmental activities of the National Government including the
preparation of the national budget, regional development councils in the
preparation of regional development plans local governments in the preparation
of local plans, and government-owned and controlled corporations in the
preparation of their plans and investment programs, shall conform and be in
accordance with the Five-Year Philippine Development Plan for 1978 to 1982. The
heads of departments, chiefs of bureaus, offices, agencies and instrumentalities
of the government, the governing boards and managing heads of the
government-owned and controlled corporations, the members of regional
development councils and governing boards and managing heads of regional
development authorities and the members of the governing councils and boards and
the executive heads of local governments including the barangays are hereby
charged with the responsibility and empowered to see to it that the conduct and
activities of their respective organization are in accordance with the above
mentioned Five-Year Plan.
Authority of the Secretary of Economic Planning.
SEC. 3. Authority of the Secretary of Economic
Planning.—The Secretary of Economic Planning, as Director General of the
NEDA, shall have the authority to act, for and on behalf of and upon
consultation with the President, oh all matters, including coordination of plan
implementation, creation of inter-agency committees, issuance of circulars and
orders and promulgation of rules and regulations, pertaining to the
implementation of the Five-Year Plan.
SEC. 4. Adoption and Promulgation of the Ten-Year
Development Plan for 1978 to 1987 and Long-Term Development Plan up to the Year
2000.—Pursuant to the recommendation of the Batasang Bayan in its
Resolution No. 68, dated August 27, 1977, the Ten-Year Development Plan for
1978-1987 and the Long-Term Development Pan up to the year 2000 finalized by
the NEDA are hereby adopted and promulgated. These plans shall serve as
guidelines to subsequent five-year and other plans of the government.
Flexibility in the Plans.
SEC. 5. Flexibility in the Plans.—In order that the
Plans can adequately respond and cope with sudden developments in the domestic
and world economy, the Director-General of the NEDA shall conduct regular
periodic review and appraisal of the Plans and make recommendations thereon to
the President; Provided, that, changes or amendments in any of the
Plans or any aspect or part thereof shall not be made unless approved by the
President. A yearly report of the Director General on the accomplishments of the
economy should include the performance of the Five-Year Plan.
Private Sector Involvement in Plan 57 Implementation.
SEC. 6. Private Sector Involvement in Plan 57
Implementation.—Businesses, industries and all other concerns in the
private sector are hereby enjoined to take heed of the Plans herein approved,
adopted and promulgated and, as far as practicable in light of their respective
objectives, to align or coordinate their activities therewith.
Effectivity of Decree.
SEC. 7. Effectivity of Decree.—This decree shall
take effect on January 1,1978.
Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of September in the year of Our
Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.
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