QuestionsQuestions (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 341)
Executive Order (EO) No. 341 was issued by the President on August 4, 2004. Its purpose is to reorganize the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), modify its powers and functions, and authorize and direct MIAA to exercise administrative supervision and control over all international airports in the Philippines, while ensuring unified standards for their management, operation, maintenance, and development.
EO 903 (as amended by EO 908 and EO 298) deleted all references to MIAA as an authority over other airports in the Philippines, removing earlier implications that MIAA had broader control beyond the Manila International Airport.
As stated in the preamble, MIAA is an agency under the Executive Department attached to the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).
“Administrative supervision and control” refers to MIAA’s authority to oversee and manage administrative matters of international airports through actions such as directing officials, reviewing and modifying board decisions, and prescribing standards. This is expressly stated in Section 1 (Administrative Supervision and Control).
Section 1 lists: Laoag International Airport, Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (formerly Clark International Airport), Subic International Airport, Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Francisco Bangoy International Airport (Davao), General Santos International Airport, Zamboanga International Airport, and such other international airports as may be established in the Philippines.
Through the General Manager, MIAA may direct officials of the international airports to perform their duties or refrain from committing acts (Section 1[b]).
Section 1[c] provides that MIAA may review, approve, reverse, or modify acts and decisions of the governing boards, officials, or units of the international airports under its coverage.
Section 1[d] authorizes MIAA to determine priorities in executing plans and programs for the management, operation, maintenance, and development of all international airports in the Philippines.
It supports EO 341’s goal of unity in policies and programs. Section 1[e] empowers MIAA to prescribe the governing standards and frameworks that airports must follow for internationally-accepted performance.
Yes. Section 1[a] allows MIAA, through its General Manager, to act directly on any matter involving management, operation, maintenance, or development of the covered international airports.
Under Section 2, MIAA, through its General Manager, must submit to the President through the Secretary of the DOTC an integrated and comprehensive annual report covering MIAA’s expanded functions, activities, and operations.
Section 4(a) states that MIAA and its General Manager may call upon any agency or office of the Government for assistance necessary or appropriate to perform its functions. Heads of departments, agencies, and government-owned or controlled corporations are enjoined to provide full assistance and cooperation.
They are enjoined to render full assistance and cooperation and to provide information and data required by MIAA and its General Manager to carry out functions pursuant to the Executive Order (Section 4[a]).
Section 3 authorizes MIAA, in consultation with the DOTC Secretary, to issue rules and regulations for effective implementation of EO 341’s provisions.
Section 5 repeals, amends, or modifies all executive issuances, rules and regulations, or parts thereof that are inconsistent with EO 341.
Section 6 states that the EO takes effect immediately.