WHEREAS, on 17 July 1998, Executive Order
No. 4 was issued, amending among other provisions, Section 4 of
Executive Order No. 490, series of 1998, thereby transferring to the
Office of the President the operational supervision and control over the
principal office in Manila of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office
(MECO) and its branch offices in Taiwan;
WHEREAS, public
interest and security considerations and the imperatives of the
One-China Policy require that the administrative relationship of the
Office of the President and MECO be redefined;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the law do hereby order:
SECTION 1.
Section 4 of Executive Order No. 490, as amended by Executive Order No.
4, series of 1998, otherwise known as "ESTABLISHING THE PRINCIPAL
OFFICE IN MANILA OF THE MANILA ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL OFFICE AND
TRANSFERRING THE SUPERVISION OVER THE OPERATIONS AND ACTIVITIES TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS", is hereby further amended to read as
follows:
"SEC. 4.
OPERATIONAL SUPERVISION. Supervision over the principal office in
MANILA of the MECO and its branch offices in Taiwan is hereby placed
under the Office of the President. The Office of the Executive Secretary
shall exercise supervision over the MECO. To ensure the proper
implementation of this administrative arrangement, the Senior Deputy
Executive Secretary shall sit in the MECO Board as Director."
SEC. 2.
All orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof
inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.
SEC. 3. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 7th day of April, in the year of our Lord, Two Thousand.
(Sgd.) JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA
By the President:
RONALDO B. ZAMORAExecutive Secretary
