Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 277)
The order approves and adopts the National Civil Aviation Security Programme, creates the Office for Transportation Security in the Department of Transportation and Communications, and reconstitutes the National Council for Civil Aviation Security as the National Civil Aviation Security Committee to safeguard civil aviation against unlawful interference while ensuring flight safety, regularity, and efficiency.
The National Civil Aviation Security Committee (NCASC) is responsible for formulating plans to direct, control, supervise, and integrate all measures aimed at preventing and suppressing terrorist threats to civil aviation.
It is under the Department of Transportation and Communications, headed by an Undersecretary, and is primarily responsible for the implementation of Annex 17 of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Convention on aviation security.
The Secretary of the Department of Transportation and Communications chairs the NCASC.
The NCASC is responsible for implementing and maintaining the National Civil Aviation Security Programme, coordinating security activities among government agencies and airport authorities, defining and allocating tasks related to aviation security, ensuring airports establish written security programs, and collaborating with other security task forces.
The NCASC is composed of high-level officials such as the Secretaries of the Department of Transportation and Communications and Department of Interior and Local Government, undersecretaries, airport authorities’ general managers, representatives from Philippine National Police Aviation Security Group, Bureau of Customs, Bureau of Immigration, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, Overseas Worker Welfare Administration, Department of Tourism, Department of Foreign Affairs, National Bureau of Investigation, intelligence services, and other related agencies.
Each airport serving international civil aviation must establish and implement a written airport security program, have an authority responsible for coordinating security controls, and establish an airport security committee to assist in implementing security procedures.
The NCASC is mandated to define and allocate tasks, coordinate activities among agencies, airport authorities, and aircraft operators, and collaborate with the Task Force for Security of Critical Infrastructure under the Cabinet Oversight Committee on International Security.
Yes, all orders, rules, regulations, and issuances or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are repealed or modified accordingly.
The Executive Order took effect immediately upon its signing on January 30, 2004.