WHEREAS, the reorganization of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources into the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Natural Resources, has caused a change in the composition and membership of the Agrarian Reform Coordinating Council created under Executive Order No. 347, Series of 1971;

WHEREAS, the integrated approach to agrarian reform for tenurial improvement, physical, institutional and agricultural development requires the membership of other government agencies in the Council; and

WHEREAS, our country cannot now afford to slow down the implementation of the Agrarian Reform Program;

NOW, THEREFORE, in view of my earnest desire to implement fully and effectively the agrarian reform program as set forth in Presidential Decrees Nos. 2 and 27, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby amend the composition and membership of the Agrarian Reform Coordinating Council as created under Executive Order No. 347, Series of 1971, as follows:

Secretary Conrado F. Estrella	Chairman
Department of Agrarian Reform
Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile	Member
Department of National Defense
Secretary Cesar Virata	Member
Department of Finance
Secretary Vicente Abad Santos	Member
Department of Justice
Secretary Arturo R. Tanco, Jr	Member
Department of Agriculture
Secretary Jose S. Leido, Jr	Member
Department of Natural Resources
Secretary David Consunji	Member
Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communication
Secretary Jose A. Ro o	Member
Department of Local Government and Community Development
Secretary Baltazar Aquino	Member
Department of Public Highways

The Council shall be convened as often as possible exercise its function of providing technical advice and assistance to the Department of Agrarian Reform and effective inter-departmental coordination and cooperation among agencies and institutions performing functions related to agrarian reform. The Chairman shall organize a Secretariat to provide staff and clerical services to the Council.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.


By the President:

(SGD.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary