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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 197 - DIRECTING
ALL DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, COMMISSIONS, AGENCIES, OFFICES AND
INSTRUMENTALITIES OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING
GOVERNMENT-OWNED OR CONTROLLED CORPORATIONS, TO INCREASE THEIR RATES OF
FEES AND CHARGES BY NOT LESS THAN 20 PERCENT
WHEREAS,
pursuant to Sec. 54, Chapter 12, Book IV of Executive Order No. 292
(Administrative Code of 1987), heads of bureaus, offices or agencies,
may, upon approval of the department head, charge and collect the cost
of the services rendered by the bureau, office or agency
concerned;
WHEREAS, it is only proper that the persons receiving the services for
which the fees and charges are imposed should be made to share the
burden of the expenses incurred by the government;
WHEREAS, despite Executive Order No. 159, series of 1994, directing all
departments, bureaus, commissions, agencies and instrumentalities of
the national government, including government-owned or controlled
corporations, to adjust their fees and charges by just and reasonable
rates sufficient to cover the full cost of services rendered, only very
few agencies have complied;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH E. ESTRADA, President of the Republic of the
Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, hereby order:
Section 1.
The revised rates shall, wherever practicable, be uniform for similar
or comparable services and functions and shall be determined by the
respective department heads, governing boards, or equivalent
functionaries; Provided, that this Executive Order shall not apply to
fees charged by the Department of Foreign Affairs for the processing of
passports of Overseas Filipino Workers and other fees charged by
departments, bureaus, offices, units, and agencies, including
government-owned or controlled corporations, related to
constitutionally mandated free or subsidized services, such as in
education (government colleges and universities) and in health, as well
as to those exempted by international agreements, as shall be
determined by the President.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
Sec. 4.
Sec. 5. Since 19.07.98.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 13th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand.
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