Question & AnswerQ&A (EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 4)
Executive Order No. 4 revokes the provisions of Executive Order No. 494 dated December 6, 1991, specifically concerning the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA), maintaining the PCA's existing charter and organizational structure.
Executive Order No. 494 proposed reorganizing the PCA into a regular line bureau of the Department of Agriculture, renaming it the Bureau of Coconut Development and Inspection Service, and repealing its charter.
The charter of the PCA is formed by Presidential Decree No. 232, as revised by Presidential Decrees Nos. 961 and 1468.
The reorganization was revoked because the PCA was not identified for privatization under Proclamation No. 50, has a unique corporate and regulatory function that cannot be substituted by a regular bureau, and public interest demanded maintaining the existing organization.
Then Secretary of Agriculture Senen Bacani recommended excluding the PCA based on specific reasons outlined in his memorandum to the President dated December 18, 1991.
First, the PCA was not among the government corporations identified for privatization under Proclamation No. 50; second, the PCA's corporate and regulatory functions cannot be replaced by a regular bureau's line functions.
Executive Order No. 4 took effect immediately upon its signing on July 11, 1992.
The PCA's charter as embodied in Presidential Decree No. 232, as revised by PD Nos. 961 and 1468, remains in force and effect without repeal or amendment.
Annex "D" of Executive Order No. 494, which pertains to the transformation of the PCA, is deleted following the issuance of Executive Order No. 4.