Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 4)
Executive Order No. 4, dated July 30, 2010, reorganizes and renames the Office of the Press Secretary as the Presidential Communications Operations Office and creates the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office to improve communication between the Office of the President, the Executive Branch, and the Filipino people.
The Office of the Press Secretary is renamed as the Presidential Communications Operations Office.
The Presidential Communications Operations Office is headed by the Presidential Communications and Operations Head who holds the rank of Cabinet Secretary.
Functions include developing guidelines for dissemination of information about the President and Executive Branch, managing government-owned media facilities, maintaining local and international offices for information dissemination, supervising government agencies involved in information dissemination, coordinating with private media, managing the OP website, and other functions assigned by the President.
Attached agencies include the News and Information Bureau, Philippine News Agency, Philippine Information Agency, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) 13, RPN 9, NBN 4, PBS-Radio-Television Malacanang, Bureau of Communications Services, National Printing Office, APO Production Unit, and OP Web Development Office.
The Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office was created.
Its functions include coordinating message crafting and formulation, designing responses to issues, ensuring consistency of messages by the Executive Department, assisting in new media strategies development, liaising with the Malacañang Records Office, supervising market research, formulating editorial guidelines for state media, and maintaining the institutional memory of the Office of the President.
It is managed by the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Head who has the rank of Cabinet Secretary.
Attached agencies include the Presidential Message Staff, OP Correspondence Office, Media Research and Development Staff, Presidential Museum and Library, Official Gazette, and Speech Writers Group.
The budget for the reorganized offices in the current year is sourced from the remaining budget of the Office of the Press Secretary and the Office of the President, subject to applicable laws. For succeeding years, appropriations are prepared following regular government budget procedures.
All orders, circulars, rules, regulations, and issuances or parts thereof that are inconsistent with this Executive Order are repealed or modified accordingly.
This Executive Order took effect immediately upon signing on July 30, 2010.