WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 128, dated October 4, 1993 created the National Centennial Commission to prepare a Comprehensive Plan for the National Centennial Celebration in 1998;

WHEREAS, the National Centennial Commission has successfully overseen the various activities of the National Centennial Celebration, highlighted by the many activities in 1998, the centenary of the declaration of the First Philippine Republic;

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 128 provides that the Commission ™s œexistence shall terminate upon the completion of all activities related to the Centennial Celebration; 

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 the extension of the official existence of the National Centennial Commission until April 30, 1999, to allow it additional time to complete whatever Centennial celebration or activities are left unfinished, and to submit its terminal and liquidation reports as well as turn over all finished and unfinished projects to private entities or to the Office of the President. Further, the NCC should start the turn-over of all finished and unfinished projects to concerned agencies, to local government units, to private entities or to the Office of the President.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 25th  day of January in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine.

(SGD.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
Executive Secretary