QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 277)
E.O. 277 approves and adopts the National Civil Aviation Security Programme (NCASP), and lays down the organizational and institutional framework for its implementation, including the creation of an Office for Transportation Security and the reconstitution of a national security committee.
The NCASP is the program attached as Annex “A” to the Executive Order. By virtue of Section 1, it is “approved and adopted,” meaning it becomes the governing national framework for aviation security measures in line with the Order.
An Office for Transportation Security is created under the Department of Transportation and Communications, headed by an Undersecretary.
The Undersecretary is primarily responsible for implementing Annex 17 of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Convention on aviation security.
The National Council for Civil Aviation Security is reconstituted as the National Civil Aviation Security Committee (NCASC), with specified membership composition.
Chairman: Secretary, Department of Transportation and Communications. Co-Chairman: Secretary, Department of Interior and Local Government.
Examples include: Undersecretary, DOTC Office for Transportation Security (Vice-Chairman); Assistant Secretary, Air Transportation Office; General Manager, Manila International Airport Authority; General Manager, Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority; General Manager, Clark International Airport Corporation; Director, Philippine National Police Aviation Security Group; and Commissioner, Bureau of Customs (any five suffice).
Each airport serving international civil aviation must establish and implement a written airport security programme appropriate to meet the requirements of the NCASP.
An authority must be arranged at each such airport to coordinate the implementation of security controls.
It assists the airport authority in coordinating the implementation of security controls and procedures.
It is responsible for implementation and maintenance of the NCASP and must, among others, define and allocate tasks, coordinate security activities, ensure airport security programmes, arrange for airport security authorities and committees, coordinate with the Task Force for Security of Critical Infrastructure, and perform other functions served as Secretariat (as indicated in the text).
Section 5 provides that all orders, rules, regulations, and issuances (or parts thereof) inconsistent with E.O. 277 are repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 6 states that it shall take effect immediately.
It cites the President’s continuing authority under Section 31, Chapter 10, Title III, Book III of the Administrative Code of 1987 to reorganize the administrative structure of the Office of the President.
Executive Order No. 336 dated January 5, 2001 is referenced as the basis for the National Council for Civil Aviation Security’s responsibility to formulate plans directing, controlling, supervising, and integrating measures against terrorist threats to civil aviation.
It directs the NCASC to define and allocate tasks and coordinate security activities among government agencies, airport authorities, aircraft operators, and other entities responsible for implementing various aspects of the NCASP.
The NCASC must coordinate and collaborate with that Task Force under the Cabinet Oversight Committee on International Security.
It signals that the Office for Transportation Security must implement internationally recognized aviation security standards under ICAO Annex 17, guiding domestic enforcement and compliance measures aligned with NCASP.