WHEREAS, the reorganization of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources into the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Natural Resources, has caused a change in the composition and membership of the Agrarian Reform Coordinating Council created under Executive Order No. 347, Series of 1971;
WHEREAS, the integrated approach to agrarian reform for tenurial improvement, physical, institutional and agricultural development requires the membership of other government agencies in the Council; and
WHEREAS, our country cannot now afford to slow down the implementation of the Agrarian Reform Program;
NOW, THEREFORE, in view of my earnest desire to implement fully and effectively the agrarian reform program as set forth in Presidential Decrees Nos. 2 and 27, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby amend the composition and membership of the Agrarian Reform Coordinating Council as created under Executive Order No. 347, Series of 1971, as follows:
Secretary Conrado F. Estrella | Chairman |
Department of Agrarian Reform | |
Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile | Member |
Department of National Defense | |
Secretary Cesar Virata | Member |
Department of Finance | |
Secretary Vicente Abad Santos | Member |
Department of Justice | |
Secretary Arturo R. Tanco, Jr | Member |
Department of Agriculture | |
Secretary Jose S. Leido, Jr | Member |
Department of Natural Resources | |
Secretary David Consunji | Member |
Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communication | |
Secretary Jose A. Roño | Member |
Department of Local Government and Community Development | |
Secretary Baltazar Aquino | Member |
Department of Public Highways | |
The Council shall be convened as often as possible exercise its function of providing technical advice and assistance to the Department of Agrarian Reform and effective inter-departmental coordination and cooperation among agencies and institutions performing functions related to agrarian reform. The Chairman shall organize a Secretariat to provide staff and clerical services to the Council.
Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.
(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President of the Philippines
By the President:
(SGD.)
ALEJANDRO MELCHORExecutive Secretary