INSTITUTIONALIZING THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMIC-ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES ACCOUNTING (PEENRA) SYSTEM AND CREATING UNITS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE DEPARTMEN…

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WHEREAS, the Philippines has established a firm resolve to pursue
sustainable development as contained in the Medium-Term Philippine Development
Plan 1993–1998 and the Philippine Agenda 21. Towards this end, there is a need
for integrated socio-economic and environmental plans, programs and policies;

WHEREAS, the Philippine System of National Accounts (PSNA), the basis for
the formulation of medium- and long-term development plans, does not yet
capture the role of the environment as a source of natural capital and as sink
for the wastes generated by production and other human activities;

WHEREAS, there is a need to establish a PEENRA System as a satellite
account to the PSNA to generate macro-indicators that shall reflect the
relationships and interactions between the natural environment and the economy;

WHEREAS, the Philippine Agenda 21 includes as one of its targets the
initial institutionalization of Environment and Natural Resources Accounting
(ENRA) to develop a comprehensive indicator of sustainable development and to
improve current efforts to consider and adequately value natural capital or ecosystem
services in socio-economic decisions and establish a reliable database on
social valuation estimates of environmental services;

WHEREAS, the APEC Senior Officials and Ministerial Meetings on Sustainable
Development held in the Philippines in May and July 1996, respectively,
recommended the introduction and adoption of Environmental and Natural
Resources Accounting;

WHEREAS, the NSCB as the agency mandated to develop and maintain the PSNA,
and the DENR and NEDA are currently performing functions in support of
environment and natural resources accounting.

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

SECTION 1. PEENRA and
Other Units. PEENRA Units shall be created
within the organizational structures of the NSCB and the DENR. A unit at NEDA
shall be designated to coordinate ENRA activities and NEDA’s present personnel
shall be augmented to assume such functions.

The PEENRA Unit at the NSCB
shall:

a. compile the environmental
accounts, and study and formulate viable approaches and methodologies for the
PEENRA;

b. explore ways and means to
modify and improve current environmental and economic statistics, in
coordination with the concerned data producing agencies as well as data users;

c. serve as repository of all
PEENRA-related data materials through the National Statistical Information
Center which the NSCB has established;

d. provide technical and
secretariat services to the Inter-Agency Committee and Task Forces which the
PEENRA Steering Committee may create for the coordinated functioning of the
data generating agencies; and

e. act as the secretariat of the
PEENRA Steering Committee.

The designated Unit at NEDA
shall:

a. coordinate the conduct of
consultations, orientations and training-seminars for the members of the
Philippine Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) and other concerned
institutions or units;

b. coordinate the conduct of
studies and research in support of policy development related to PEENRA; and

c. establish mechanisms for the
integration of environmental considerations in planning, policy, project
development and implementation based on PEENRA results.

The PEENRA Unit at DENR shall:

a. compile sectoral resource
accounts, and study and formulate viable approaches and methodologies in
coordination with NSCB;

b. conduct studies and research
in support of policy development related to PEENRA;

c. ensure that environmental
considerations are integrated in their policy, project planning and implementation
based on PEENRA results; and

d. provide environmental and
natural resources data and strengthen its statistical capabilities for PEENRA.

The above PEENRA units shall
closely coordinate to ensure consistency/complementarity of activities in
support of PEENRA system.

Other agencies which will
provide inputs to and adopt the PEENRA system may establish their own PEENRA
units as necessary.

SEC. 2. Data Support. The NSCB shall designate the required environment and economic statistics
and the agencies/bureaus which shall be responsible for generating such data.

SEC. 3. Creation of PEENRA
Steering Committee (PEENRA-SC). A Steering
Committee on PEENRA is hereby created which shall initially include the NSCB,
DENR, NEDA, NSO, DTI and DA. The PEENRA-SC shall provide directions for the
coordinated functioning of the PEENRA Units. It shall create ad-hoc or
permanent inter-agency committees and task forces which will support the data
and technical requirements of the PEENRA. The member agencies shall be
represented by designated Undersecretary level officials for DENR, DTI, NSO,
and DA and the NSCB. There will also be representatives from the non-government
sector to include one (1) representative each from the academe, NGO/PO,
business and labor sectors. The Secretary of Socio-Economic Planning and NEDA
Director-General, as the chairman of the PCSD, shall act as the Chairman of the
PEENRA-SC.

SEC. 4. Funding. The PEENRA-SC shall submit a budget proposal, for approval of the
President, to be sourced from the participating agencies’ savings and such
other sources as may be identified for the initial funding. Subsequent funding
shall be included in the budget preparation of each agency to be incorporated
in the annual General Appropriations Bill.

SEC. 5. Implementing
Rules. The PEENRA-SC is hereby directed to
prepare and adopt guidelines to implement the specific provisions of this
Executive Order.

SEC. 6. Effectivity. This Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 21st day of March, in the year of
Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven.

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

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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