By virtue of the powers vested in me by Republic Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty, entitled œAn Act to regulate imports and for other purposes,  I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. To assist the President of the Philippines in the execution of the provisions of Republic Act No. 650, there is hereby created an Import Control Commission composed of Alfredo Montelibano, Chairman; Alfonso Calalang, member; and Francisco Ortigas, member.

SEC. 2. The chairman and members of the Commission shall each receive a per diem for each meeting of the Commission attended, at a rate fixed by the President of the Philippines.

SEC. 3. The Commission shall have an executive officer to be appointed and whose salary shall be fixed by the President of the Philippines.

SEC. 4. The Commission shall immediately proceed to organize its office, drawing for the purpose such personnel as it may deem necessary from, and utilizing the equipment and records of, either the former Import Control Administration or the Price Stabilization Corporation (PRISCO), or both. As soon as the said office is organized, the Commission shall submit to the President:

(a)

A Budget of its expenses together with a plantilla of its personnel.

(b)

Rules and regulations for the enforcement of Republic Act No. 650.

(c)

Policies for the granting of quota allocations and import licenses.

(d)

A budget of the foreign exchange certified and made available for imports by the Central Bank of the Philippines, among commodities or groups of commodities.

SEC. 5. All officers and employees of the Commission shall be subject to the Civil Service Law, rules and regulations, except those whose positions may, upon recommendation of the Commission and the Commissioner of Civil Service, be declared by the President of the Philippines as policy-determining, primarily confidential or technical in nature.

Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth.


By the President:
(SGD.) MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary