WHEREAS, the Finance Intelligence and Investigation Bureau (FIIB) has been created pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1458 dated June 11, 1978, as implemented by Letter of Implementation No. 71 dated September 4, 1978 and further emended by Presidential Decree No. 1458-A;

WHEREAS, the newly created Bureau of the Ministry of Finance is now incorporated under Chapter 9, Section, 318 of the Revised Administrative Code of 1978;

WHEREAS, the Commissioner of the new Bureau through the Ministry of Finance has been directed by the President/Prime Minister of the Republic of the Philippines to organize and appoint his staff and personnel in accordance with the provision of Section 3, Presidential Decree No. 14-58 and Section 1, Article 1, Chapter 1, Part XIX of the Integrated Reorganization Plan; and

WHEREAS, the proposed Staffing Pattern of the FIIB has now become necessary to implement the aforestated staffing pattern;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order and direct:

1. That the Personal Services Itemization of the abolished Anti-Smuggling Action Center be superseded by the FIIB Staffing Pattern effective immediately;

2. That the salaries of personnel of the Finance Intelligence and Investigation Bureau shall be in accordance with rates proposed in the staffing pattern of the Bureau pursuant to the prescribed rules of the Ministry of the Budget;

3. That retired government employees employed by the Bureau in the exigency of the service shall receive allowances commensurate to the rates of the positions they are occupying.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of December in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty.

(Sgd.)  FERDINAND E. MARCOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Presidential Assistant