[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 217, May 14, 1970 ]

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE COMPUTERIZATION OF BUDGETARY AND FINANCIAL REPORTS



WHEREAS, the submission to the budget and planning agencies of up-to-date and accurate budgetary and financial reports is highly desired;

WHEREAS, an effective program of computerization of budgetary and fiscal reporting activities has to be evolved in order to achieve the aforementioned goal;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby create a committee to study and evolve a program for the computerization of budgetary and financial reports, composed of the following:

A representative of the PES-DND Computer Center - Chairman
A representative of the Budget Commission - Member
A representative of the Department of Finance - Member
A representative of the Central Bank - Member
A representative of the Presidential Economic Staff - Member

The PES-DND Computer Center shall act as the Secretariat of the Committee.

The Committee is hereby authorized to obtain from any agency of the government such pertinent information and assistance as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Order.

The Committee shall submit its report and recommendation to the President within 60 days from the date of this Order.

Done in the City of Manila, this 14th day of May, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Acting Executive Secretary