Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 107)
The Commissioner of Health and Welfare is designated to gather and prepare all necessary reports related to narcotic drugs.
The Commissioner must report detailed statistics on imports, exports, manufacture, stocks, seizures, and estimated needs of narcotic drugs, as well as other statistical data periodically required by the U.S. Government for the Permanent Central Opium Board.
Reports must include the kind and quality of drugs, origin, marks and labels, points of diversion into illicit traffic, place of dispatch, names of shipping or forwarding agents, methods of consignment, names and addresses of consignees, methods and routes used by smugglers, names of ships if involved, government actions and penalties imposed, and any other relevant information to suppress illicit traffic.
The Collector of Customs, Collector of Internal Revenue, Chairman of the Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners, Opium Committee, Chief of Staff of the Philippine Army, Commissioner of Public Safety, and chiefs of police of chartered cities and municipalities.
The Commissioner is empowered to require any official, instrumentality, or agency of the government to provide data or information necessary to carry out the provisions of the Order.
Upon completion, the Commissioner will forward the reports to the Office of the President of the Philippines, which will then transmit them to the United States Government.
The Memorandum Order dated October 21, 1930, of the former Governor-General regarding the preparation of a statement of seizures of narcotics is revoked.
The Commissioner must be guided by the Narcotics Limitation Convention held at Geneva on July 13, 1931, to which the United States was a party.
The Commissioner must submit a general annual report on the traffic in narcotic drugs.