WHEREAS, by virtue of Resolution No. 01-99, the Inter-Agency Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (IAC-IPR) agreed to recommend the amendment of Section 2 of Executive Order No. 60, dated February 26, 1993;

WHEREAS, the purpose thereof is to update its composition mainly due to the change in the position title of the Director of the Bureau of Patents, Trademarks and Intellectual Property to Director General of the Intellectual Property Office, pursuant to Republic Act No. 8293, otherwise known as the œIntellectual Property Code of the Philippines ;

WHEREAS, since the Director of the National Library is the head of the office, the need to reflect the changes is also in order;

WHEREAS, considering the importance of the inclusion of the Director General of the National Computer Center in the Committee, it was also deemed necessary that he be made a member thereof.

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. Section 2 of Executive Order No. 60 dated February 26, 1993 is hereby amended to read as follows:

œSEC 2. Composition. The Committee shall be composed of the Secretary of Trade and Industry, as Chairman, the Secretary Justice and Secretary of Finance as Vice-Chairmen, and the following as Members: the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, the Director of the National Bureau of Investigation, the Chief of the Philippine National Police, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs, the Chairmen of the Videogram Regulatory Board, the Commissioner of the National Telecommunications Commission, the Director of the National Library, the Director General of the Intellectual Property Office, the Director of the Bureau of Trade Regulations and Consumer Protection, the Court Administrator of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the Commissioner of the Economic Intelligence and Investigation Bureau, the Director of the Bureau of Food and Drugs, the Director of the Bureau of Animal Industry, and the Director General of the Computer Center, and one representative each from two major non-government organizations involved in the protection and promotion of the intellectual property rights to be determined by the Committee .

SEC 2. All laws, orders, issuance and rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC 3. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF , I have hereunto set my hands and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of November, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand.

(SGD.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA

By the President:

(SGD.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary