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(1) | Republic Act No. 7656 approved on November 9, 1993 which directs GOCCs and GFIs to remit dividends to the Treasury amounting to at least fifty percent (50%) of their annual earnings. The Department of Finance shall, however, exercise its authority to mandate larger dividend remittances in the form of cash dividends based on its review of the financial conditions of said agencies; |
(2) | Executive Order No. 338 issued on May 17, 1996; and |
(3) | Executive Order No. 197 issued on January 13, 2000. |
(1) donations, contributions, grants and gifts;SEC. 5. All NGAs, GOCGs, and GFIs shall suspend the following:
(2) expenditures for consultancy services regardless of fund source, except those directed towards the government’s institutional reform efforts;
(3) expenditures for trainings/seminars/workshops. Those to be conducted by public entities shall be done in a simple and cost effective manner;
(4) volume of consumption of fuel, water, electricity and other utilities;
(5) expenditures for travelling, unless clearly beneficial to Philippine interests as may be determined by the President of the Philippines in the case of foreign travel of government personnel;
(6) expenditures for advertisements, publications and related items;
(7) expenditures for office supplies; and
(8) expenditures for rents and leases. All NGAs, GOCCs, and GFIs owning buildings with extra office spaces shall share them with those presently renting office space from private owners.
(1) construction of new buildings for government offices;SEC. 6. Consistent with the streamlining of the bureaucracy and to assist in raising the targeted savings under Section 5, all NGAs, GOCCs, and GFIs are prohibited from implementing the following activities unless covered by available funds and specifically authorized by the Office of the President, as recommended by the DBM:
(2) purchase of furniture and fixtures, and motor vehicles not directly supportive of frontline services of the agency; and
(3) conduct of celebrations, and cultural and sports activities not related to the core functions of the agency.
(1) operationalization of new agencies/offices;SEC. 7. All NGAs, GOCCs, and GFIs are prohibited from undertaking the following to raise savings over and above that mandated under Section 5:
(2) expansion of organizational units and/or creation of positions; and
(3) creation of task forces, inter-agency committees and interim bodies.
(1) hiring of new personnel, except for:SEC. 8. Similarly, as an additional savings measure, low priority programs/activities/projects (PAPs) shall be discontinued or scaled down. For this purpose, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and the DBM shall conduct Sector Effectiveness and Efficiency Reviews (SEER) in coordination with agencies and departments concerned, in order to assess ongoing and proposed new major programs and projects, more specifically:(a) key positions (division chiefs and above);(2) Filling of vacant positions in regional offices of NGAs whose functions have been devolved to Local Governments; and
(b) one of a kind position in the agency;
(c) positions in schools under the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, Commission on Higher Education, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, Department of Science and Technology and State Universities and Colleges (SUCs);
(d) medical and allied medical positions in hospitals;
(e) information technology positions;
(f) uniformed personnel in the Department of National Defense, Department of the Interior and Local Government, the Philippine Coast Guard and the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority; and
(g) positions in agencies whose staffing patterns have been streamlined and approved by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) beginning January 1, 2000, provided that only twenty percent (20%) of vacant administrative positions as of the effectivity date of this Order may be filled by new hires.
(3) Grant of new/additional/increased allowances/benefits except for step increments based on length of service in accordance with Joint Senate-House of Representatives Resolution No. 1, s. 1994.
(1) Classify PAPs into three categories: high, medium, low priority in accordance with their appropriateness in meeting sector outcomes;SEC. 9. All NGAs, GOCCs, and GFIs shall each submit to the Office of the President through the DBM, not later than fifteen (15) days after the issuance of this Order, the fiscal discipline measures it shall undertake during the year and an estimate of the revenues and savings to be generated. For GOCCs and GFIs, the information shall be made in the context of the submission of their corporate operating budget. Thereafter, a semestral report on the revenues and savings actually generated shall be submitted.
(2) Determine which of the low and medium priority PAPs are to be deferred, scaled down or abolished; and
(3) Identify and adopt measures to address the implementation of on-going high priority projects that are encountering significant problems.