EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 218

: The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) was created by R.A. No. 9165 for effective law enforcement of dangerous drugs and relevant chemicals.
: The DDB is the policy-making and strategy-formulating body for planning and formulating policies and programs on drug prevention and control.
: The drug enforcement units of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the National Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Customs were abolished.
: They shall continue performing their tasks as detail service with the PDEA until PDEA can recruit sufficient new personnel to take over these tasks.
: To support the PDEA in its mandate by organizing task forces composed of the Office of the President, PNP, and other previously involved agencies.
: The PDEA shall exercise operational supervision and provide technical support to the main task force created by the PNP.
: The President of the Philippines determines whether the DDB or PDEA will exercise operational supervision over other task forces.
: Funds come from the mother agencies creating the task forces and from the gross receipts of lotto operations.
: It is ordered to create a standby fund of One Billion Pesos (P1,000,000,000.00) to fund PDEA operations and its supporting task forces.
: Executive Order No. 206 dated May 15, 2003 is repealed by E.O. No. 218.