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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1200
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1200
- APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE FIVE-YEAR PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR
1978 TO 1982 AND PROMULGATING A TEN-YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR 1978 TO
1987 AND A LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN UP TO THE YEAR 2000
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WHEREAS,
following extensive public hearings in the national, regional and
sectoral levels on a proposed Five-Year Social and Economic Development
Plan for 1978 to 1982, a Ten-Year Development Plan for 1978 to 1987 and
a Long-Term Development Plan up to the year 2000, the drafts of the
aforesaid Plans were submitted for consideration to the Batasang Bayan
during its session on August 27, 1977;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, after due deliberation thereon, the Batasang Pambansa in its
Resolution No. 68, dated August 27, 1977, resolved to give the National
Government through the National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA) a vote of confidence to finalize the above-mentioned Plans and
to recommend to the President the approval thereof provided that the
Plans should place continued emphasis on self-reliance in basic needs,
rural development and agrarian reform, expansion of industry including
tourism, accelerated investments in economic and social infrastructure
projects such as power, transport, irrigation and water supply,
communication, education, hospital and health care, housing and other
forms of social services and, in general on improving the quality of
life of the people;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the Plans have been finalized and their substantive thrust
follows the guidelines indicated by the Batasang Bayan, in that
particular attention has devoted to rural development, self- reliance,
national resource management, environment sanitation and, above all,
social justice; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the Cabinet Committee created to prepare, review and evaluate
the draft plans has accordingly recommended the approval of the same,
during its meeting on September 15, 1977;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, it is also essential to imbue the Plans with the flexibility
necessary to meet unexpected developments arising from the present
uncertain condition of the world economy and to designate the
institutional mechanism to effectuate the flexibility in the Plans:cralaw:red
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Republic of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the
Constitution, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Batasang
Bayan duly assembled as representative of the people, do hereby order
and decree: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. Approval and Adoption of Five-Year
Philippine Development Plan. — The draft Five-Year Social and Economic
Development Plan for 1978 to 1982 prepared and finalized by the
National Government through the Cabinet Committee created to prepare,
review and evaluate the Plans and the NEDA pursuant to the
recommendation of the Batasang Bayan in its Resolution No. 68 dated
August 27, 1977 is hereby approved and adopted as the Five-Year
Philippine Development Plan for 1978 to 1982.
Section 2. Government activities to conform with
Five-Year Plan. — All developmental activities of the National
Government including the preparation of the national budget, regional
development councils in the preparation of regional development plans
local governments in the preparation of local plans, and
government-owned and controlled corporations in the preparation of
their plans and investment programs, shall conform and be in accordance
with the Five-Year Philippine Development Plan for 1978 to 1982. The
heads of departments, chiefs of bureaus, offices, agencies and
instrumentalities of the government, the governing boards and managing
heads of the government-owned and controlled corporations, the members
of regional development councils and governing boards and managing
heads of regional development authorities and the members of the
governing councils and boards and the executive heads of local
governments including the barangays are hereby charged with the
responsibility and empowered to see to it that the conduct and
activities of their respective organization are in accordance with the
above mentioned Five-Year Plan.
Section 3. Authority of the Secretary of Economic
Planning. — The Secretary of Economic Planning, as Director General of
the NEDA, shall have authority to act, for and on behalf of and upon
consultation with the President, on all matters, including coordination
of plan implementation, creation of inter-agency committees, issuance
of circulars and orders and promulgation of rules and regulations,
pertaining to the implementation of the Five-Year Plan.
Section 4. Adoption and Promulgation of the Ten-Year
Development Plan for 1978 to 1987 and Long-Term Development Plan up to
the Year 2000. — Pursuant to the recommendation of the Batasang Bayan
in its Resolution No. 68, dated August 27, 1977, the Ten-Year
Development Plan for 1978-1987 and the Long-Term Development Plan up to
the year 2000 finalized by the NEDA are hereby adopted and promulgated.
These plans shall serve as guidelines to subsequent five-year and other
plans of the government.
Section 5. Flexibility in the Plans. — In order that
the Plans can adequately respond and cope with sudden developments in
the domestic and world economy, the Director General of the NEDA shall
conduct regular periodic review and appraisal of the Plans and make
recommendations thereon to the President; Provided, that, changes or
amendments in any of the Plans or any aspect or part thereof shall not
be made unless approved by the President. A yearly report of the
Director General on the accomplishments of the economy should include
the performance of the Five-Year Plan.
Section 6. Private Sector Involvement in Plan
Implementation. — Businesses, industries and all other concerns in the
private sector are hereby enjoined to take heed of the Plans herein
approved, adopted and promulgated and, as far as practicable in light
of their respective objectives, to align or coordinate their activities
therewith.
Section 7. Effectivity of Decree. — This decree shall
take effect on January 1, 1978.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 21st day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred
and seventy-seven.
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