AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE INTEGRATED REORGANIZATION PLAN, AS AMENDED

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 797
• Sections: 5

Preamble

WHEREAS, it is necessary that certain changes be made in

the provisions of Parts VI and VII of the Integrated Reorganization Plan

relative to the National Economic and Development Authority and the

Regional Development Council;

WHEREAS, considering that the National Economic and

Development Authority is of equal level as other departments of the

government, the head thereof should be designated a department

secretary;

WHEREAS, with respect to the Regional Development Council,

there is a need to enhance the effectiveness thereof as, the focal point

for the coordination of regional planning and development; and

WHEREAS, to attain this, it is necessary: (1) to

reconstitute the membership of the council by allowing a broadening of

its composition whenever needed, and (2) to strengthen the capacity of

the chairman of the council for regional leadership by making him an

appointee of the President.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the

Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution do

hereby order and decree as follows:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Paragraph 8, Article III, Chapter I, Part VI of

the Integrated Reorganization Plan as adopted tinder Presidential Decree

No. 1 and as amended by Presidential Decree Nos. 372 and 622, is hereby

further amended to read as follows:

"8. There shall be a Director-General with Cabinet rank who

shall concurrently be the Secretary of Economic Planning, and such

number of Deputy Directors-General as the President may determine, with

the rank of Undersecretary, who shall serve as the executive and

assistant executive officers of the NEDA, respectively. The

Director-General shall hold office at the pleasure of the President,

while the Deputy Directors-General shall be carrer officials.

The Secretary of Economic Planning shall preside over meetings of

the NEDA Board in the absence or inability of the Chairman to preside

over the same.

Whenever the Director-General is unable to perform his duties

owing to illness, absence or other cause, or in case of vacancy in the

office, the Deputy Director-General designated by the President shall

temporarily perform the functions of said office."

Section 2

SEC. 2. Paragraph 3, Article II, Chapter I of Part VII is

amended to read as follows:

"3. The regional development council shall be composed of the

governors of the provinces and mayors of chartered cities comprising the

region; the regional directors, of the Bureau of Agricultural Extension

and Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture; the

regional director of the Bureau of Public Works of the Department of

Public Works, Transportation and Communications; the regional director

of the Department of Agrarian Reform, Public Highways, Labor, Education

and Culture, Health, Social Welfare, and Local Government and Community

Development; the general managers of the regional and sub-regional

development authorities existing in the region, if any; and a

representative of the National Economic and Development Authority; Provided,

however, That the regional council may by appropriate resolution

accept other regional directors as regular members of the council and

the executive committee. Provided, further, That regional

directors who are not members of the Council shall be authorized to

attend the meetings of and participate in the deliberations of the

council whenever matters involving their respective functional

jurisdictions are included in the agenda of the council, in which case

the council shall extend the necessary invitation for the regional

directors concerned to attend."

Section 3

SEC. 3. Paragraph 4, Article II, Chapter I of Part VII is

amended to read as follows:

"4. The President shall designate the Chairman of the council

from among the provincial governors and city mayors who are members of

the council, except that the regional commissioners for Regions IX and

XII respectively shall continue to be chairman of the council in their

respective regions pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 742. The Chairman

so designated shall serve as such at the pleasure of the President. The

Chairman shall provide the necessary leadership in the coordination of

regional planning and development in his respective region. He is

authorized to receive additional compensation and/or honorarium and

allowances payable from NEDA funds at such rate as may be determined by

the NEDA Director-General.

Section 4

SEC. 4. Paragraph 7, Article II, Chapter I of Part VII is

amended to include the regional director of the Department of Agrarian

Reform in the membership of the Executive Committee of the regional

development council.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of September, in the

year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-five.

(Sgd.)

FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.)

ROBERTO V. REYES

Acting Executive Secretary