WHEREAS, the Presidents of National Sports Associations, the Deputy Ministers of the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, the Executive Director of Project: Gintong Alay and all agencies involved in sports development, recommended the suspension of the implementation and effectivity of Executive Order No. 579, series of 1980, which created the National Coordinating Committee for Sports Development;

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

1. Executive Order No. 579 is hereby suspended as to its implementation and shall be considered of no force and effect.

2. The President shall appoint Project Directors for the different sports who shall come preferably from the private sector and shall assist the development of their respective sports by way of financial and technical assistance which shall be free from government supervision or control.

3. This executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 13th day of March in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-one.


By the President:

(SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR.
Deputy Presidential Executive Assistant