DIRECTING ALL DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, COMMISSIONS, AGENCIES, OFFICES AND INSTRUMENTALITIES OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING GOVERNMENT-OWNED OR CONTROLLED CORPORATIONS, TO IN…

WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 54, Chapter 12, Book IV of Executive Order
No. 292 (Administrative Code of 1987), heads of bureaus, offices or
agencies, may, upon approval of the department head, charge and collect
the cost of the services rendered by the bureau, office or agency
concerned;

WHEREAS, it is only proper that the persons receiving the services
for which the fees and charges are imposed should be made to share the
burden of the expenses incurred by the government;

WHEREAS, despite Executive Order No. 159, series of 1994, directing
all departments, bureaus, commissions, agencies and instrumentalities of
the national government, including government-owned or controlled
corporations, to adjust their fees and charges by just and reasonable
rates sufficient to cover the full cost of services rendered, only very
few agencies have complied;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH E. ESTRADA, President of the Republic of
the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, hereby
order:

SECTION 1. All departments, bureaus, offices, agencies
and units, including government-owned or controlled corporations, are
hereby directed to review and upgrade their rates of fees and charges by
not less than twenty percent (20%).

The revised rates shall, wherever practicable, be uniform for similar
or comparable services and functions and shall be determined by the
respective department heads, governing boards, or equivalent
functionaries; Provided, that this Executive Order shall not apply to
fees charged by the Department of Foreign Affairs for the processing of
passports of Overseas Filipino Workers and other fees charged by
departments, bureaus, offices, units, and agencies, including
government-owned or controlled corporations, related to constitutionally
mandated free or subsidized services, such as in education (government
colleges and universities) and in health, as well as to those exempted
by international agreements, as shall be determined by the President.

SECTION 2. The heads of departments shall be
responsible for the implementation of this Executive Order by the
bureaus, offices, units, and agencies, including government-owned or
controlled corporations, within their respective jurisdictions.

SECTION 3. The Department of Finance and the
Department of Budget and Management shall jointly promulgate the rules
and regulations to implement this Executive Order and monitor compliance
by agencies.

SECTION 4. All executive issuances or parts
thereof which are inconsistent with any of the provisions of this
Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SECTION 5. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

Adopted: 13 Jan. 2000

By the President:

(SGD.) RONALDO B. ZAMORA
           Executive Secretary