TO:	The Director-General National Economic and Development Authority

In view of the fact that the AP0 Production Unit in Manila is still, basically, a unit of the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), and the setting up thereof by the Philippine Government was a commitment arising out of the membership of the Government of the Philippines in the Asian Productivity Organization: that the funding received from the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID) and the Philippine Government had phased out; and that the AP0 presently finds itself unable to continue with its activities, it is necessary that an arrangement be made for the APO Production Unit to continue to function and operate without imposing additional financial burden on the part of the APO or the Government. Therefore, you are hereby directed to make the APO Production Unit a self-sustaining operation.  In this connection, the Unit shall be allowed and authorized, as it is hereby authorized, to solicit and accept, printing jobs with other agencies of, or corporations owned or controlled by, the Government, notwithstanding the provision of Section 1644 of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended.

Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.