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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 955
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 955 -
ESTABLISHING ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS WITHIN THE
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
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WHEREAS, it
is the primary tasks of the President to exercise overall management of
the total development effort and administration of the government
machinery;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the Constitution provides that in the interim period before
the convening of the National Assembly, the President performs
legislative functions;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, in fulfillment of these tasks the President needs a staff to
assist him in effectively managing and overseeing the development
process and administering the affairs of state; and this staff
assistance has been provided by the Office of the President;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree Nos. 1 and 830 provide for a continuing
reorganization of the Office of the President to make it attuned to the
requirements of the Presidency;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, as part of this continuing reorganization process, a system of
Presidential Assistants has been established within the Office of the
President by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 831 to provide effective
staff support to the President;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, there is now a need to strengthen and complete the
reorganization of the Office of the President by defining the support
systems, working relationships, and the allocation of tasks and
responsibilities among the different staff units;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, the reforms to be instituted herein are in line with the
dynamically changing character of the Presidency and are in preparation
for the transition towards the Parliamentary form of government
provided for by the Constitution;chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
decree and order the adoption of the following organizational and
administrative reforms within the Office of the President: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 1. Organization of the Office of the
President. — The Office of the President shall consist of the The
President's immediate offices, the system of Presidential Assistants,
and the common staff support system herein provided shall compose the
Office of the President proper.
Section 2. A System of Presidential Assistants. —
The system of Presidential Assistants provided for under Presidential
Decree No. 831 shall perform technical and advisory staff support and
coordination work for the President on their respective functional
areas that relate to the President's task of managing the development
process include legislative functions; administering the operations of
general government; and attending to the internal administrative
requirements of this Office.
All existing positions of Presidential Assistants, including the
Presidential Executive Assistant and the others appointed by the
President prior to Presidential Decree No. 831, shall be retained and
shall be assigned functional areas of responsibility. The President may
create from time to time additional positions of Presidential
Assistants with specific functional areas of responsibility.
Consistent with these provisions, the additional position of
Presidential Assistant for Political Affairs is hereby created.
The powers, functions and areas of responsibility of the Presidential
Assistants shall be defined in appropriate implementing orders to be
issued by the President.
Section 3. Coordination of Presidential Assistants.
— The Presidential Executive Assistant shall exercise supervision over
the internal administrative requirements of the Office of the President
(proper). For this purpose he shall be assisted by a Presidential
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The Presidential Executive Assistant shall coordinate the Presidential
Assistants and for this purpose establish a system for effective
coordination and regular consultations among the Presidential
Assistants and the various staff units.
Section 4. Common Staff Support System. — In order
to provide the vehicle for coordinated staff work and to maintain a
total integrated view of the general administration and development
effort, the various operating units in the Office of the President
(proper) shall form a common staff support system and shall be
organized along the tasks of the Office of the President namely:
development management, general government administration, and internal
administration of the Office of the President.
Section 5. Organization of the Common Staff Support.
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a. The Presidential Executive Assistant shall draw
up the necessary organizational structure of the common staff support
to provide staff assistance to the President and the system of
Presidential Assistant along the following functional areas:
development management, general administration and internal
administration of the Office of the President described as follows:cralaw:red
Development Management — Provide the President with effective technical
staff support in his task of exercising overall management of the
development process to include project development execution and
monitoring, policy development execution and monitoring, policy
coordination, economic intelligence, and financial and budgetary
operations, legal and political matters and such other functions as the
President may assign.
General Administration — Provide the President with staff support in
matters concerning general government administrative operations.
Internal Administration — Provide auxiliary and support services for
the internal administration of the Office of the President
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b. To provide the President with
multi-disciplinary/sectoral staff that can maintain a total perspective
and provide an integrated approach, the Development Management Staff is
hereby reconstituted and renamed the Presidential Management Staff to
act as the primary staff arm of the President on matters related to
development management.
Section 6. Regional Presidential Assistant. — There
is hereby created the position of Regional Presidential Assistant for
each region in the country except Metropolitan Manila. The Regional
Presidential Assistant shall be the personal representative of the
President in his assigned region.
The Presidential Executive Assistant shall draw up the necessary
organizational guidelines and budgetary requirements/directives to
implement this provision and shall submit the same to the President for
approval within a period of three months after the issuance of this
decree.
Section 7. Abolition of Offices. — The positions of
Presidential Regional Officers for Development, the Presidential
Regional Action Officers and the Coordinating Officers for Program
Execution are hereby abolished and their functions not inconsistent
herewith, together with all funds, records, equipment and properties,
if any, are hereby transferred to the Office of the Regional
Presidential Assistants.
Section 8. Appropriations. — The existing budgets of
the Office of the President (proper) including the balance of their
unexpended appropriations for Calendar Year 1976 shall continue to be
appropriated and programmed. The Presidential Executive Assistant and
the Presidential Assistant on General Government Affairs, in
coordination with the Commissioner of the Budget, shall work out the
additional appropriations required by virtue of the creation of new
Presidential Assistants, the Regional Presidential Assistants and the
restructuring of the common staff support. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
The annual budgetary requirements for the succeeding calendar years of
the Office of the President (proper) including the independent
budgetary units under it as reconstituted shall be in lump sum and
shall likewise be included in the General Appropriations Decree.
Section 9. Repealing Clause. — All provisions of
existing laws, proclamations, orders, decrees, instructions, rules and
regulations or parts thereof contrary to or in conflict with the
provisions of this Decree are hereby modified or repealed
accordingly. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Done in the City of Manila,
this 8th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
seventy-six.
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