EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 218

: The PDEA was created by virtue of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, Republic Act No. 9165.
: The DDB is the policy-making and strategy-formulating body responsible for the planning and formulation of policies and programs on drug prevention and control.
: These drug enforcement units were abolished, but their personnel were to continue tasks as detail service with PDEA until PDEA became fully operational with sufficient personnel.
: Task forces are organized by the Office of the President, the PNP, and other agencies to support the PDEA in its drug law enforcement and prevention functions.
: The PDEA exercises operational supervision and provides technical support to the main PNP task force.
: The President determines whether the DDB or the PDEA will exercise operational supervision over those task forces.
: Funds shall come from the mother agencies creating the task force and from the gross receipts of lotto operations.
: The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office was ordered to create a standby fund of One Billion Pesos (P1,000,000,000.00) to fund the operations.
: Executive Order No. 206 dated May 15, 2003, was repealed.
: It took effect immediately upon approval on June 18, 2003.