QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 476)
Executive Order No. 476 places the Commission on Population under the control/attachment of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to facilitate coordination of population-related policies and programs.
Before EO No. 476, the Commission on Population was placed under the control and supervision of the Office of the President by Executive Order No. 408 (June 18, 1990).
EO No. 476 cites Book III, Title III, Chapter 10, Section 31(3) of the Administrative Code of 1987, which authorizes the President to transfer agencies from the Office of the President to other departments or agencies, and vice versa.
Section 1 provides that the Commission on Population is attached to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
EO No. 476 takes effect immediately, as stated in Section 2.
It does not abolish the Commission. It only changes the Commission on Population’s attachment/control structure by placing it under NEDA.
Because coordination of policies and programs relative to population would be facilitated by attaching the Commission to NEDA.
The Commission on Population is attached to NEDA, meaning it is administratively linked for purposes of coordination and oversight as contemplated by the EO.
The principle that the President has administrative reorganization authority over agencies of the government, subject to statutory authorization (here, the Administrative Code provision cited).
It was signed by President Corazon C. Aquino, with Franklin M. Drilon as Executive Secretary who affixed the attestation.
It indicates that prior to EO No. 476, the Commission on Population was under the control and supervision of the Office of the President.
It describes this power through the cited Administrative Code authority allowing the President to transfer agencies between departments/agencies and to/from the Office of the President.
Better coordination of population policies and programs by aligning the Commission with the NEDA framework for development planning.
It signals that the EO’s validity depends on an existing legal grant of authority—here, specifically the Administrative Code provision cited in the recitals.
It may indicate a different degree or type of administrative relationship; the EO text explicitly distinguishes prior placement under the Office of the President's control/supervision from the later attachment to NEDA, which suggests a structural re-linking rather than a total abolition or merger.