TO: | The Commissioner of the Budget and All Others Concerned |
(a) | Those which provide far the exercise of functions inherent to agencies, and which should instead be covered by an agency directive or circular. |
(b) | Those which earmark funds and appropriations for personal services, maintenance and operating expenditures and capital outlays, as they are deemed included in the appropriate program/projects portion of the budget of the Department/ Agency concerned. |
(c) | Those already covered by existing laws, circulars, letters of instructions and other Presidential issuances and administrative directives. |
(d) | All existing authority to utilize savings and/or unexpended balances of appropriations of the different agencies, particularly those remaining as of the end of the fiscal period. Each agency must present a well-planned, systematic and meaningful budget of expenditures to support its operational needs without resorting to use of savings or unexpended balances from its appropriations. |
(e) | Those which are of common or general application like rates for consultant's fee, over time, per diems, honoraria, representation and transportation allowances, and which should be covered by General Provisions, Presidential Decrees or Executive Orders uniformly applicable to agencies not governed by a charter; otherwise, Charter rates should be followed. |
(f) | Those which provide for clothing, laundry, subsistence, quarters and other allowances of institutional, off-shore and personnel working under similar circumstances which should be covered by a General Provision, providing for standard rates applicable to all. |