ESTABLISHING THE GINGOOG BAY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL

WHEREAS, the Medium-Term Fisheries
Management and Development Program under the Department of Agriculture’s
Medium-Term Agriculture Development Plan identifies Gingoog Bay as one of the
country’s key fisheries development area;

WHEREAS, developing Gingoog Bay as well
as its surrounding municipalities of Balingoan, Talisayan, Medina and Gingoog
City requires addressing urgent concerns like environmental protection, poverty
alleviation, local autonomy, eco-tourism and sustainable growth;

WHEREAS, the land and the waters of the
Gingoog Bay are limited natural resources requiring concerted efforts to ensure
their optimal utilization and renewability to preserve its ecological balance;

WHEREAS, to enable the government to
translate into reality the thrust to preserve the country’s marine and coastal
resources through community-based efforts consistent with the concepts of
sustainable development and people empowerment, there is a need to create a
body that shall formulate and implement short- and long-term plans for the area
covered herein as well as address certain policy, planning and implementation
issues, and to coordinate and integrate all environment and natural resources
management of related government and non-government activities in the Gingoog
Bay area;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS,
President of the Republic of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in
me by law, do hereby order:

SEC. 1. There is hereby created, under
the Office of the President, the Gingoog Bay Development Council,
hereinafter referred as the “Council”, composed of the following:

SEC. 2. The Council shall be an advisory
and coordinating body to the President and shall exercise the following
functions and responsibilities:

a. Formulate a five-year Gingoog Bay Development
Master Plan for the Gingoog Bay area covering the surrounding coastal
municipalities of Balingoan, Talisayan, Medina and Gingoog and their
shorelines. A concept paper for the formulation of the master plan shall be
submitted not later than 30 June 1995;

b. Initiate and coordinate projects and programs
for the preservation and enhancement of its ecological balance, protection and
rational utilization and development of its coastal and marine resources, and
for the empowerment and just sharing by the people of the localities of the
fruits of development. As much as possible, these projects and programs shall
be community-based and shall adhere to the principle of sustainable
development;

c. Where needed and appropriate, extend and/or
facilities assistance to the local government units concerned in the areas of
training, technical and technological know-how, planning/management and
supervision, feasibility studies/research, financial and funding sources,
project development and evaluation, procurement and marketing for the speedy
implementation of the identified plans and projects for the Bay area;

d. Coordinate with the appropriate National
Government agencies and local government authorities to strictly enforce
fisheries laws, rules and regulations and prevent illegal fishing activities as
well as recommend national and local legislation to further the same;

e. Conduct public consultations as well as enhance
public awareness on the protection, development and optimum utilization of
coastal, marine and fisheries resources;

f. Encourage people empowerment through the active
participation of the private sector, especially non-government organizations,
in the planning, and implementation of projects in the Bay area;

g. Initiate and coordinate investment opportunities
and economic projects suitable for and consistent with the planned development
of the Bay area like eco-tourism, agriculture- and fishery- based ventures as
well as livelihood projects for the local communities; and

h. Perform any other functions as may be assigned
by the President.

SEC. 3. The Council may call upon any
government agency, office of bureau for assistance and/or form committees to
facilitate the discharge of its functions and responsibilities.

SEC. 4. The Council shall submit
quarterly reports of its activities to the Office of the President.

SEC. 5. The amount of Five Million Pesos
(P5,000,000.00) to be drawn from the President’s Contingent Fund, shall be
released for the operations of the Council and initial project implementation
for 1995. Appropriations for the succeeding years shall be incorporated in the
budget proposals under the Office of the President.

SEC. 6. All executive issuances, orders,
rules and regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with this Executive Order
are hereby revoked or modified accordingly.

SEC. 7. This Executive Order shall take
effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila this 7th day of April in
the year of our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Five.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines 

By the
President:

(Sgd.) TEOFISTO
T. GUINGONA, JR.
Executive Secretary

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