WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 100 created the Philippine Information Agency to provide to as wide a public as possible information regarding the policies and programs of government in a coordinated and complimentary fashion and without the influence of partisan politics;

WHEREAS, Executive Order no. 100 directed the Philippine Information Agency to cause the preparation of an operating budget in collaboration with the Ministry, now Department, of Budget and Management on the details necessary to put into effect its implementation;

WHEREAS, the said budget has been prepared in accordance with the existing laws, rules and regulations.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order the following:

SECTION 1. The amount of Twenty Three Million Pesos (P23,000,000.00) is hereby authorized to be released from the Compensation and Organizational Adjustment Fund in the current General Appropriations Act, for the operations of the Philippine Information Agency in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order No. 100.

SECTION 2. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, on this 25th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty seven.


By the President:

(Sgd.) JOKER P. ARROYO
Executive Secretary