WHEREAS, several commissions, councils and committees created by executive and administrative orders of the President of the Philippines have been found to have either accomplished the purposes and objectives for which they have been created or are merely duplicating the functions of other agencies or entities of the Government.

WHEREAS, the agencies or entities whose functions embrace the functions and activities of said commissions, councils and committees could adequately perform the said functions and activities; and

WHEREAS, it is the policy of this Administration to streamline and simplify the operations of government agencies and avoid as much as possible the duplication of efforts, functions and activities.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby abolish the following entities and revoke the executive or administrative orders creating them:

Entity

Created by

1. Investment Assistance Commission

Executive Order No. 43, s. 1954

2. Loans and Investment Council

Executive Order No. 36, s. 1963 as amended

3. Special Committee on the Creation of New Agencies or Offices and New Positions

Executive Order No. 108, s. 1967

4. Peace and Order Council

Executive Order No. 29, s. 1966 as amended

5. Peace and Order Commission

Executive Order No. 143, s. 1968

6. Anti-Smuggling Fund Committee

Executive Order No. 12, s. 1966

7. Presidential Anti-Crime Coordinating Office

 

8. Historical Documents Committee

Executive Order No. 164, s. 1969

9. Committee on Arson

Executive Order No. 139, s. 1968

10. National Committee on Disaster Operations

Administrative Order No. 151, s. 1968

11. Presidential Rice and Corn Committee

Executive Order No. 6, s. 1962

12. National Coordinating Committee on Reforestation and Tree-Planting

Executive Order No. 154, s. 1968

13. Committee on Consumers ™

Administrative Order No. 232, Cooperative Association s. 1957

14. Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Released Prisoners

Executive Order No. 55, s. 1966

15. Training Coordination Council

Administrative Order No. 121, s. 1966

16. Committee in Philippine Petroleum Exploration Industry

Executive Order No. 152, s. 1965

17. Coconut Development Committee

Executive Order No. 169, s. 1965

18. Committee on Landed Estates

Administrative Order No. 102, s. 1955 as amended

19. Dynamite Fishing Committee

Executive Order No. 40, s. 1954

20. Presidential Committee in Trade Agreements

Executive Order No. 107, s. 1955

21. Committee on Facilitation of International Air Transport in the Philippines

Executive Order No. 106, s. 1955

22. Flood Control Commission

Executive Order No. 68, s. 1936 as amended

23. Civil Aviation Policy Committee

Administrative Order No. 84, s. 1964 as amended

24. Special Committee on Information and Educational Radio Program

Administrative Order No. 279, s. 1958

25. Mt. Data National Park Reservation Executive Committee

Executive Order No. 37, s. 1966

26. Youth and Student Affairs Board

Executive Order No. 169, s. 1969

27. Special Committee on Baguio Squatter Problem

Executive Order No. 75, s. 1967

28. Philippine Panel to the RP-US Joint Veterans Commission

Administrative Order No. 125, s. 1966 as amended

29. Asian Good Neighbor Relations Commission

Executive Order No. 70, s. 1954 as amended

30. Committee on Documentary Films

Administrative Order No. 333, s. 1960

The functions of the Peace and Order Commission, the Anti-Smuggling Fund Committee and Presidential Committee on Rehabilitation of Released Prisoners are hereby transferred to the Peace and Order Coordinating Council, those of the Historical Documents Committee to the Department of Education, and those of the National Coordinating Committee on Reforestation and Tree-Planting to the Reforestation Administration.

The funds, equipment, property, and records of the Peace and Order Council and the Presidential Anti-Crime Coordinating Office are hereby transferred to the Peace and Order Coordinating Council.

All executive orders, administrative orders, and rules and regulations inconsistent with this Order are hereby revoked.

Done in the City of Manila, this 21st day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy.


By the President:
(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Acting Executive Secretary