WHEREAS, the Office of the President issued Memorandum Circular No. 3 on 31 July 1998 Directing all Government Departments, Agencies, Government-owned and/or Controlled Corporations, State Colleges and Universities, and Other Instrumentalities to Make All their Computer-Based Information Systems Year 2000 Compliant;

WHEREAS, the deadline for compliance prescribed in said Memorandum Circular was on or before 21 December 1998;

WHEREAS, the Office of the President also issued Executive Order No. 14 on 19 August 1998 Establishing the Presidential Commission on Year 2000 Compliance;

WHEREAS, the deadline prescribed in said Executive Order for the Commission to complete the task of making computer-based systems of all government institutions Year 2000 compliant is by September 30, 1999;

WHEREAS, there is a need to synchronize the deadlines under said issuances for consistency and to allow maximum compliance by all offices concerned;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1.       The new deadline prescribed for all government departments, agencies, government-owned and/or controlled corporations, state colleges and universities, and other government instrumentalities to make all their computer-based information systems Y2K compliant is on or before 30 September 1999. Section 1 of Memorandum Circular No. 3 is hereby amended accordingly.

SECTION 2.       This Memorandum Circular shall take effect immediately.

Adopted: 25 Sept. 1998

(SGD.) JOSEPH E. ESTRADA
President

By the President:

(SGD.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary