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This is the fifth part of my EnP board review series, where we start off with the basic reading
materials you’re supposed to know as a planner.

And there are three of them:

1. Rationalized Planning System in the Philippines by Ernesto Serote

2. Republic Act 7160: The Local Government Code
3. HLURB CLUP Guidebooks and Supplemental Guidelines (since this is a series of books,
it’s technically 3++ bibles)

Rationalized Planning System in the Philippine

Let’s start with the RPS, because this is the ultimate book for the exam.

As Serote puts it, planning is scattered, and for me, dysfunctional, in our country. Rationalizing the planning
system brings together the principles, your baselines, the planning process, who’s in it, what its output is,
and basically, how everything works out in Philippine planning.
What we get from the book
It lays the foundation of planning through the structure and the inevitability of local government function,
and second, it provides in detail the combined process of the two mandated planning documents: the
Comprehensive Land Use Plan and the Comprehensive Development Plan. If you’re a SURP student or
graduate, you’ve gone through this in Plan 203, Plan 210, and Plan 210.1. Or if you work for a local
government, you may be familiar with some of the parts. But don’t be complacent. You may have produced
plans, but there’s much more to just going through the process once or twice, or just contributing a portion
of the plan.

I’m not making a book review, and I won’t write the questions or answers outright. But I can give a guide
you can refer to while reading the RPS.

Tips
 Remember that the CLUP has the four policy areas and equates to land use categories,
while the CDP follows the five development sectors. There’s a difference.
 Take note of the tools and techniques, especially in making socio-economic analyses
(yes, Rachel Racelis’ Plan 214), these comprised the math component when I took the
exam.
 Master the urban form stereotypes in the book (yes, Plan 201). Not just the name and
drawing; understand what the forms’ growth characterises in a city setting. 5 stereotypes from the
many urban forms: Dispersed sheet, galaxy, core, star, and radial/nucleated. Sources: Rationalised Planning System; Kevin
Lynch
 Read all the success and development indicators. Don’t just breeze through the table,
even if it lasts some pages.
 Take note of who made which technique throughout the book, especially in evaluating
urban forms. Also take note of the differences per technique. You’ll get to know Kevin Lynch,
Nathaniel Lichfield, Morris Hill, and so on. (On the work of the latter two, look up GAM and
CBA.) Look them up. Even if they’re in the footnotes, read what they wrote. As I said, RPS is
your planning bible. The gods’ contributions are already summarised here.
 The five development sectors depicted as a flower is important.
 There are references made throughout the book. While most are from the Local
Government Code (i.e. General welfare goals, the political-technical differentiation), some
come from the 1986 Constitution, while others stem from laws and national plans like
the Philippine Development Plan. After your first go on the RPS, read the references, then go
through RPS again. You’ll have more understanding on the what’s, why’s, who’s and how’s.
Remember, the more umbrella-ish in scope and nature, the deeper the context. RPS stems
mainly from the LGC, while the LGC stems from the Constitution. Oh, and these references
also pop up in the exam.
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 Remember that while the chapters of the book are read flat, its entirety is a cycle. And
it is intercrossed with larger area plans and frameworks.
 Don’t ever take the monitoring and evaluation chapter for granted.
 The mandated planning documents are the CLUP and the CDP. Take note of the
interplay with the EP, AIP, the LDIP, and ELA. These are all in the many frameworks in
different chapters of the book.
Refer to this book again, and again, and again, and again. You learn from it every time you read it. Make a
test to see if you really understand the contents. For example, make a blank chart of the four book modules
and try to fill in the planning stages and outputs.

Aside from the online DILG version, RPS has an available regular circulation copy in the SURP Library.

The Local Government Code (RA 7160

The annotated copy I have at home is almost 2 inches thick. But reading it a couple of times furthered what
I read from the RPS.

So, why go through the LGC? Aside from being the legal basis for local planning, the planning functions
and the justifications for the political and technical aspects of planning are embedded in this law.

What we get from the law

Basically, we go through everything a local government is about. The whole LGC was written to devolve the
national governmental functions to the local, and the provisions govern local. It covers provincial, city-,
municipal, and barangay levels.

If you haven’t worked under a local government before (like me, I’ve only experienced national), reading the
LGC will provide you the structure and functions of the local government. Down to what every officer in it
does, what they’re responsible for, how funds and taxes are shared and utilised, and the rationale for how
the local government is designed to tick like a well-oiled clock.

Bookmarks
I encourage you to study the whole law, but I’m going to lift the sections which are always discussed in
environmental planning. Place a stick-on on the following:

 Sections 15 to 20, because they spell out the basis of local planning activities. Section
15 is the political and corporate nature of local government units, Section 16 is the general
welfare clause, Section 17 lists all the basic services and facilities that should be provided
(yes, read through all of them, and it’s good to make a matrix), Section 18 is the power to
generate and apply resources (implementing development plans, levying taxes, creating
revenue sources all go here), Section 19 is eminent domain (the right to take property for
public use), and Section 20 is the reclassification of agricultural lands (15% for HUCs, 10%
for component cities and first to third class municipalities, and 5% for fourth to sixth class
municipalities).
 Sections 106-116 tackle the Local Development Council’s composition and functions,
among other related information.
 Section 130 letter r discusses municipal waters, specifying the 15 kilometer boundary
from the coastline (if water is shared by 2 municipalities, the boundary line is equally
distant from the shores).
 Section 285 discusses the allocation of IRA (internal revenue allotment) to local
government units: Provinces and cities get 23% each, municipalities get 34%, while
barangays get 20%. This is dependent on a formula: 50% for population, 25% for land area,
and 25% equal sharing (meaning the balance of the IRA is divided equally among all
recipients).
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 Section 384: The Barangay, Section 440: The Municipality, Section 448: The
City, Section 459: The Province. And here’s the summary for the unit creation:

Just to “clarify” the issue of HUC city income differences: Section 450 of RA 7160 states that the average
annual income of a city should be at least 20M. Section 452 states that HUCs must have at least 50M.
BUT RA 9009 amends the LGC and specifies the amendment on only Section 450, changing the income
of a city requirement to be 100M. The question we had during our review was if the HUC would follow suit
and be required to have an income of 100M as well. The logic here is that the HUC has the higher
requirements than the component and independent component cities. So my final answer for HUCs’
required income will be 100M. (Consult a lawyer, anyone?)
Other things you will find handy: The history of Philippine local governments. The annotated versions of the
LGC have these in the introduction (I’m copying these from Rufus Rodriguez’ fifth edition). Let me put them
here, as I almost took these for granted during my review:
 Barangay was a settlement of 30 to 100 families and a governmental unit
 Datu was the chief of the barangay and an absolute ruler, having all three powers of
the government: legislative, executive, and judicial
 Encomienda is the granted land that dissolved the barangays, superimposed by the
Spanish government. Encomiendero collects the natives’ tributes.
 Pueblos are municipalities, headed by the gobernadorcillo
 Cabildos are cities, led by the 2 alcaldes
 Provincias are provinces, led by the Alcalde Mayor
 Barangays became barios while dates became cabezas de barangay
 Jumping to the first Philippine republic (Aguinaldo x Mabini), the Malolos Constitution
stated “the organization and powers of the provincial and municipal assemblies shall be
governed by their respective areas,” moving away from the Spanish-dictated local
government forms
 During the Americans: Councils were instituted, and oversight by the central
government to the local units was introduced
 Prior to the LGC, there were the Revised Administrative Code, the Decentralisation Act,
the Revised Barrio Chapter, until the LGC took into effect in 1991

Tip
 Study the offices within the LGU, especially Planning and Development. Take note of the
officers, budget guidelines, functions, and main outputs per office. With their embedded
planning functions, try to link them all together. Draw a blank hierarchy to practice.
—Aside from the online version, copies of RA7160 (also annotated ones) are available at National Book
Store and Rex Book Store. Or you can borrow from lawyer / law student friends.

HLURB Guidebooks
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There are 3 updated CLUP guidebooks, and there’s the new supplemental guidelines on DRR/CCA. What’s
the difference with the old guidebooks? In the updated ones, we incorporate the ridge-to-reef approach in
planning, as well as the new mandated elements of the CLUP.

While some board takers are worried about whether they should study the updated versions or the old
ones, I recommend the updated ones. For the reasons that 1) you become up-to-date, and 2) it’s up to you
to undertake a guidebook or law history trace, but I’ll help you with that in the post that covers the reading
list. The updated versions have improved technical writing and illustrations which will aid in your study.

Difference with the RPS

So if this is about the CLUP all over again, what’s the difference with the RPS?

As the titles suggest, the RPS rationalizes the planning system, therefore it goes beyond the CLUP, which
is the sole focus of the HLURB guidebooks. Also, while RPS has the same essence of going through the
CLUP, the HLURB guidebooks provide a very layman friendly, step-by-step, Gantt-chart inclusive plan,
ready to be used by LGUs. It also provides a wide range of techniques, adding to Serote’s list, and
illustrates all the technical analyses which are justified by the RPS.

What we get from the guidebooks

Volume 1: The Planning Process

The HLURB has a 12-step planning process, and this process is the entirety of Volume 1.
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The CLUP Process. Source: HLURB CLUP Guidebook Volume 1

This volume discusses the rationale of the CLUP from the different laws, and its linkage to other
development plans.

Hierarchy and linkage of plans. Source: HLURB

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Since this volume was written to be the reference for actual workshops, you may find this more useful when
you’re doing actual facilitation. However, while it echoes the RPS, it also provides the more detailed and
systematic system of doing land use planning. Every chapter provides an introduction, objectives, key
inputs, expected outputs from the working groups, key participants, and the substeps per all of the 12 steps
in the CLUP process.

Tip
Focus on the substeps provided. It’s not necessary to memorise anything, not
even the order, because logic will guide you throughout the process. What’s
important is that you know the essence of the steps in the cycle. For example,
in preparing the land use plan (Step 7), you should know that the land demand
and supply, overlay, and identification of land uses are to be undertaken. In
this regard, Step 7 would also essentially require you to know what the land
use categories are (Forestlands, Agricultural Lands, Water, etc), and it will also
require you to conduct your analysis (i.e. land use conflicts and
compatibilities).

V O LU M E 2 : S E C T O RA L A N A LY S E S A N D T O O L S F O R
S I T U AT I O N A L A N A LY S E S
Volume 2 is a compilation of all your Plan 214 techniques and Plan 299
research methodologies. It spans from pre-planning, analysis, to IEC. What we
get:

 Sectoral studies (according to development sector, so social,

economic, etc…). These are the tools for gathering baseline data.
In practice, this is what we put in the EP. Mainly, these cover data
sourcing, surveys, filling in data tables, workshop games and
activities, etc.
 Ecosystem types and how to approach them for analysis.
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Horizontal Transect of Ecosystems. Source: HLURB

Issue Mapping. Source: HLURB.

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 Volume 2 also provides special area studies, namely, green

growth, urban design, heritage conservation, and ancestral
domains. I’ll tackle the latter two more in the post on
environmental laws.
Tips
 If you’re a fellow SURP student, this is a review of Plan 203, Plan
214, and Plan 299. The sectoral analyses, as I said, is what you do
in the EP. Therefore, an analysis of the social sector will contain the
demographics and projections (population pyramids, cohorts) and
social services (health, education, protection, etc). Economic
analysis will have the location quotient, the base economies, and
so on.
 Take note of how the most basic analyses are done. Practice the
math and stat.

V O LU M E 3 : Z O N I N G O R D I N A N C E
Volume 3 basically translates your Volume 1 output, because the Zoning
Ordinance is the implementation tool of the CLUP.

What’s very useful about this guide is that it pulls together all the laws,
technical regulations, standards, and definitions you need to know before
making the ZO. Per classification, the allowable uses and building regulations
are outlined. For example, regulations in a Residential-5 (R5) Zone allows all
uses from the R1-4 zones (such as single-detached dwelling units, residential
subdivisions, etc.) and the building regulations are governed by the National
Building Code and Presidential Decree 957.
Discussions on variances, exceptions, easements, buffers, green spaces, and
other mitigating measures are in this volume.

Tip: Have your copies of the environmental laws beside you when you read
this volume for quick reference.
S U P P L E M E N TA L G U I D E L I N E S O N M A I N S T R E A M I N G
D R R / C C A I N T H E C LU P
RA 10121 (Philippine Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Act of 2010)
and RA 9729 (Climate Change Act of 2009) require the mainstreaming of
disaster risk reduction and climate change into frameworks, policies, and
processes. The supplemental guidelines were created for this purpose.
This volume is highly technical, but with the steps given, is also easy to follow.
It also provides sample tables and outputs–maps, exposure tables, adaptive
capacity scores, and the like–so you get to have a basis in practicing the
methods.
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The supplemental guidelines look at two main things: Climate and disaster
risk, and the formulation of a risk-sensitive land use plan. The reduction of risk
(exposure to loss or danger) is how the guidelines enhance the land use plan
strategies.

Tips
 Be familiar with the technical definitions.
 Study the key information of the steps, as well as the
assessment implications.
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What’s very handy about the HLURB guidebooks is that each chapter is
formatted, so you can easily locate the text you want to review. The basic
tasks and activities per step are all outlined, and a Gantt chart format can be
used to keep the planning activities on track.

During my time, the new guidebooks had only been released. Some were
concerned on whether they would have to read the books because the
contents might not be included in the exam. But then again, what’s the point of
being called a professional planner without knowing the official guidelines to
the most basic planning output? And as they say, knowledge is power.

As far as I know, the HLURB guidelines are only available online. If you’re
planning to print (since you will also be using this thoroughly during practice),
have about a ream of paper ready because the guidebooks are thick, except
for Volume 3.

L A W S G O V E R N I N G E N V I R O N M E N TA L P L A N N I N G

Any profession is governed by specific laws, and it’s no different in

environmental planning. I’ll try to keep this as concise and organized
as possible, since you’re going to be reading through a whole lot of
legal terms and frameworks.

When I first started studying environmental laws, I couldn’t get myself

to move forward. It took practice and constant reading to understand
the pattern that appears in every law. Each one is structured, and
when you get to read a couple, you get the hang of how to analyze
the contents. I’ll group the laws together the way I studied them when
I was reviewing for the boards.

Tips:
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 Take note of the frameworks, plans, and bodies created

to implement the plans
 Take into context the year the law was created, and
know the background of the administration and the
international declarations that were passed (for example,
most laws that deal with policing environmental activities
are in the law series numbered in 9000’s and were passed
in the years 2000’s-2010’s. This is because the Kyoto
Protocol was adopted in 1997 and the enforcement of
commitments was done in the 2000’s.) This might help:

Designations used for Philippine laws. Source: Wikipedia

Let’s get started.

The overall basis is our Constitution. Take note that other laws’
objectives, or the Declaration of Policy, always refer to the what is
best for the State, as is written in the Constitution. Tip: Sometimes
Article numbers come up in the exam.
 The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines
Then before we go into the institutions and environmental laws,
there’s the basis of environmental planning and
practice.
 RA 10587: Environmental Planning Act of 2013 (The old
law is PD 1308: Law Regulating the Environmental Planning
Profession in the Philippines)
 Res. No. 01 Series of 1997: Code of Ethics for
Environmental Planners in the Philippines
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 Then I’ll just put this here because professionals have to

know: RA 8981: PRC Modernization Act of 2000
It is helpful to understand how government entities were
created so that before going into the laws that discuss their further
activities and what they should be policing, you will have a sound
structure of what their mandates and functions are.
 RA 7160 or the Local Government Code of 1991 We
understand here the devolution of powers and functions to
the local governments.
 For the housing, shelter and urban development
agencies: PD 933: Creating the Human Settlements
Commission, which is now Housing and Land Use
Regulatory Board (HLURB); EO 90: Identifying government
agencies for the National Shelter Program and the creation
of HUDCC; PD No. 757: Creating the National Housing
Authority and dissolving the existing housing agencies,
defining its powers and functions, providing funds therefor,
and for other purposes. Here are the links to trace the
histories of NHA, HLURB, HUDCC, and SHFC.
 EO 192 s 1987: Providing for the reorganization of the
Department of Environment, Energy, and Natural
Resources, renaming it as the Department of Environment
and Natural Resources, and for other purposes
 PD 107: Creating the National Economic Development
Authority
 For entities that have to do with waterworks:
Amended PD 198 (2010) and other related
issuances: Provincial Water Utilities Act of 1973, Local
Water District Law, Local Water Utilities Administration Law,
etc.; RA 6234: An act creating the Metropolitan Waterworks
and Sewerage System and dissolving the National
Waterworks and Sewerage Authority; and for other
purposes
 RA 4850: Creating the Laguna Lake Development
Authority
Housing, shelter, estate development, urban development
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 RA 7279: Urban Development and Housing Act of 1992

(with IRR and amendment: RA 9397)
 EO 71: Devolving the powers of the Housing and Land
Use Regulatory Board to approve subdivision plans, to
cities and municipalities pursuant to RA 7160, otherwise
known as the Local Government Code of 1991
 EO 72: Providing for the preparation and implementation
of the Comprehensive Land Use Plans of Local Government
Units pursuant to the Local Government Code of 1991 and
other pertinent laws
 Batas Pambansa 220 (with revised IRR of 2001): An Act
Authorizing the Ministry of Human Settlements to establish
and promulgate different levels of standards and technical
requirements for economic and socialized housing projects
in urban and rural areas from those provided under
Presidential decrees numbered 957, 1216, 1096, and 1185
 PD 957: Subdivision & Condominium Buyers’
Protective Decree (with IRR)
 RA 4726: The Condominium Act of 1995
 RA 7835: Comprehensive and Integrated Shelter
Financing Act of 1994
 RA 9507: Socialized and Low-cost Housing Loan
Restructuring Act of 2008
 EO 184 of 1994: Creating socialized housing one-stop
processing centers to facilitate the processing and issuance
of permits, clearances, certifications, and licenses
appropriate and necessary for the implementation of
socialized housing projects, and directing all government
agencies concerned to support the operations of the said
centers
 House Bill 3769 / Senate Bill 2458: Local Housing Boards
 RA 9904: Magna Carta for Homeowners and
Homeowners Associations (IRR)

I found that reviewing laws according to development sector was

effective for me, so that’s the way I’ll list them here.
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Environmental laws

I’ll group the environmental laws according to land, mineral

resources, energy, wildlife, water, air, and pollution control.
These all interlace at some point, but for for organization
purposes, let’s study it as grouped.

Introductory and general laws on the environment

 PD 1151: Philippine Environmental Policy
 PD 1152: Philippine Environmental Code
 RA 9512: National Environmental Awareness and
Education Act of 2008
Land Management
1. Commonwealth Act 141: The Public Land Act. Yes, this
was enacted in 1936 and is enforced to date.
2. PD 1517: The Urban Land Reform
3. PD 27: Decreeing the emancipation of tenants from the
bondage of the soil, transferring to them the ownership of
the land they till and providing the instruments and
mechanism therefor
4. PD 1529: Amending and codifying the laws relative to
registration of property and for other purposes
5. RA 11023: An Act Authorizing the Issuance of Free
Patents to Residential Lands
(I placed all laws on agriculture and agrarian reform later on
in this post, under the heading of economic laws for
agriculture.)

Mineral Resources
1. RA 7942: Philippine Mining Act of 1995 (with DMO 99-34
Clarificatory Guidelines)
2. RA 7076: Peoples’ Small Scale Mining Act
3. PD 1899: Establishing Small Scale Mining as a new
Dimension in Mineral Development
Energy
1. RA 9367: Biofuels Act of 2006
2. RA 9513: Renewable Energy Act of 2008
Forestry
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1. PD 705: Revised Forestry Code

2. PD 953: Requiring the planting of trees in certain places
and penalizing unauthorized cutting, destruction,
damaging, and injuring of certain trees, plants, and
vegetation
3. EO 263: Adopting community-based forest management
as the national strategy to ensure the sustainable
development of the country’s forestlands resources and
providing mechanisms for its implementation
4. RA 9175: Chainsaw Act of 2002
Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation and Protected
or Critical Areas
1. RA 9147: Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection
Act
2. RA 7611: Strategic Environment Plan for Palawan Act,
which created the Palawan Council for Sustainable
Development (PCSD)
3. RA 9072: National Caves and Cave
Resources Management and Protection Act
4. RA 7586: National Integrated Protected Areas System
Law of 1992 (with IRR, also DENR AO 2008-26)
5. PD1586: Environmental Impact Assessment
6. DENR DAO 1996-37 Environmental Impact System
7. Proclamation No. 2146: Proclaiming certain areas and
types of projects as environmentally critical and within the
scope of environmental impact statement system
established under PD 1586
Water Use and Management
1. PD 1067: Water Code of 1976 (with IRR)
2. RA 9275: Clean Water Act of 2004 (with DAO 05-10 and
IRR)
3. RA 8041: National Water Crisis Act of 1995
Air Management
1. RA 8749: The Clean Air Act of 1999
2. DENR DAO 2003-51: Revised Vehicle Emission Standards
Waste
1. RA 9003: Ecological Solid Waste Management of 2001
(with IRR)
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2. RA 6969: Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear

Wastes Control Act of 1990
3. PD 825: Anti-Littering (Garbage Disposal)
4. PD 856: Sanitation Code of 1975 (with IRR)
Climate change adaptation and Disaster risk reduction (CCA-
DRR)
1. RA 9729: Climate Change Act of 2009, which created
the Climate Change Commission
2. RA 10121: The Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Law of 2010, which created the NDRRMC
3. I’ll put the Fire Code here because it’s part of DRR. RA
9514: Revised Fire Code of 2008
Social, cultural, and institutional laws

1. RA 8371: Indigenous People’s Rights Act of 1997, which

created the National Commission on Indigenous
Peoples (NCIP)
2. RA 10066: National Culture Heritage Act of 2010
3. RA 9418: Volunteer Act of 2007
4. RA 9710: Magna Carta of Women of 2009 (IRR)
5. RA 7877: Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995
6. RA 9485: Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007
7. RA 9184 Procurement Law (with IRR as per EO 40 of
2001). Brace yourself for how long and detailed this law is.
Here’s a presentation by the Government Procurement and
Policy Board to sum up the law and present it in the
simplest way.
(#s 5 and 6 were referenced during my exam, so best to
include them here.)
Economic Laws

Agricultural, agrarian reform, and fishery laws

1. For the series of laws on agrarian tenancy and reform,
we have a list: RA 1199: Agricultural Tenancy Act; RA 3844:
Agrarian Reform of 1963 (this link is a direct download); RA
6657 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988; RA
7907 Amended Code of Agrarian Reform of the
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Philippines; RA 9700 Extension of Comprehensive Agrarian

Reform Program.
2. RA 8435: Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act
(AFMA), which brought about the delineation of SAFDZs
(strategic agriculture and fisheries development zones)
which are very important in land use
3. RA 8550: Fisheries Code of 1998 (with IRR). This
law gives guidance on the privileges of fishing within
municipal waters (as does RA 7160), as well as the FARMCs
(fisheries and aquatic resources management councils)
4. EO 481: Promotion and Development of Organic
Agriculture in the Philippines
Commerce and credit, services, and economic zones
1. RA 7916: The Special Economic Zone Act of
1995 (with IRR), which established the Ecozones and
created the PEZA (Philippine Economic Zone Authority) that
is attached to the DTI.
2. RA 9593 Tourism Act 2009 (with IRR), which created
the TIEZA (Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone
Authority), and designated the TEZs (Tourism enterprise
zones), greenfield tourism zones, and brownfield tourism
zones
3. EO 226: Omnibus Investments Code of 1987, which
protects our Philippine enterprises and states our business
rights
4. RA 9520: Revised Philippine Cooperative Code of 2008
5. RA 9510: Credit Information System Act of 2008
6. RA 6977: Magna Carta for Small Enterprises
7. RA 9501: Amendments to Magna Carta for Small
Enterprises, which became inclusive of micro-, small-, and
medium enterprises (MSMEs)
Infrastructural laws

1. RA 6541: National Building Code (with IRR of 2004–IRR

link is a direct download)
2. RA 6957 and RA 7718 (amendment): Financing,
construction, operation, and maintenance of infrastructure
projects by the private sector (with IRR and Joint Venture
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Guidelines), where guidelines are given on build-operate-

transfer (BOT) and build-and-transfer schemes with the
private sector
3. RA 9295: Domestic Shipping Shipbuilding
International Covenants and Commitments

1. UN Declaration of Human Rights

2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
3. International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights
4. Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial
Discrimination
5. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
6. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women
7. Convention on the Rights of the Child
8. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights
of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
9. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons
and of the Exploitation of Prostitution of Others
10. UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. I wrote a
little bit about our history of climate change commitments
and efforts in another blog post (just scroll down to the part
of Philippines and COP21).
11. Lastly, given the much-disputed Philippine Sea / China
Sea territory, here’s the UNCLOS or UN Convention on the
Law of the Sea. While we’re at it, here’s RA 9522: Baselines
of Philippine Territorial Sea.