Crisis managers and their roles
- The Secretary of Agriculture is designated Over-All Crisis Manager for Ebola Reston virus infection in animals.
- The Secretary of Health is designated Over-All Crisis Manager for Ebola Reston virus infection in humans.
- The Department of Agriculture, through its Secretary, is directed to act on matters primarily affecting livestock and poultry, including their products and by-products, and also other types of animals.
- Both Over-All Crisis Managers exercise powers and functions to address Ebola Reston virus infection and related containment, restriction, and control objectives.
Health powers over people entry and spread
- The Secretary of Health is granted powers and authority necessary to prevent, restrict, or regulate the entry, movement, or surveillance of people coming from infected areas or areas where infection has been suspected or detected.
- The Secretary of Health must prevent, minimize, regulate, or restrict the entry or exit of Ebola Reston virus through the Bureau of Quarantine by adopting, restricting, or regulating the movement and entry of people from infected localities suspected to be carriers or potential carriers.
- The Secretary of Health must require rigid screening and identification procedures in all ports of entry.
- The Secretary of Health must adopt isolation and quarantine measures whenever deemed necessary.
- The Secretary of Health must prevent, minimize, and regulate spread and local transmission through triage, contact tracing, surveillance, quarantine, and isolation procedures of people, as appropriate.
- The Secretary of Health must provide care, render assistance, cure, or minimize sickness or possible death through effective clinical management of people, resources, hospitals, and other facilities, whether public or private.
Agriculture powers over animals and products
- The Secretary of Agriculture is granted powers and functions necessary to contain, control, prevent, regulate, or restrict the entry, movement, keeping, handling, or raising of livestock and poultry, including their by-products and other types of animals, that are infected, suspected to be infected, or potential carriers of the Ebola Reston virus.
- The Secretary of Agriculture must impose total or partial bans on local shipment or export of animals coming from infected farms or localities or other places that are potential or suspected to be afflicted or carriers.
- The Secretary of Agriculture may condemn and slaughter pigs and other animals found to be infected with Ebola Reston virus.
- The Secretary of Agriculture must conduct surveillance, mapping, identification, isolation, quarantine, or eradication of pigs, their products and by-products, and other animals infected or suspected to be infected within the country or any part thereof.
- The Secretary of Agriculture must implement culling or stamping out of infected pigs coming from both backyard and commercial farms and other affected areas, as determined by the Secretary.
- The Secretary of Agriculture must monitor, trace, plot, or otherwise observe, in coordination with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the sanctuaries of possible reservoirs and their movement, considering the safety and well-being of people and giving due regard to nature.
Information, education, and public coordination
- The Over-All Crisis Managers—Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Health—must continuously educate and disseminate information to prepare and educate the media and the general public about the Ebola Reston virus.
- The Over-All Crisis Managers must promote positive health values and behavior to prevent disinformation, confusion, or panic.
- The Over-All Crisis Managers must coordinate responses with other government agencies and the private sector through meetings, conferences, and similar activities.
- The Over-All Crisis Managers must engage the public and affected sectors constructively.
- The Over-All Crisis Managers must issue necessary bulletins, advisories, and health warnings concerning their areas of responsibility.
Assistance, enforcement support, and NDCC coordination
- The Over-All Crisis Managers are empowered to call upon all agencies of government for support and assistance in enforcing Executive Order No. 826, including:
- Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)
- Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)
- Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC)
- Department of Finance (DoF)
- Department of Education (DepEd)
- Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
- Department of National Defense (DND)
- National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC)
- Office of the Press Secretary (OPS)
- Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)
- Philippine National Police (PNP)
- All Local Government Units (LGUs)
- The Crisis Managers, in close coordination with the NDCC, must coordinate with or seek assistance from the agencies listed, including their attached offices and various LGUs, to effectively implement the Order.
- All agencies, offices, managers, and personnel are directed to cooperate and provide assistance and support as requested or needed by the Crisis Manager to contain the Ebola Reston contagion.
- Defense and law enforcement agencies—particularly AFP, PNP, and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG)—must give priority to directives or orders issued and promulgated by the Crisis Manager affecting their respective areas of concern.
Rulemaking and implementation
- The Secretary of Health, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture, must promulgate rules and regulations necessary, related, incidental, or consistent with the purpose, intent, and objective of Executive Order No. 826.
Separability and continued validity
- If any provision of Executive Order No. 826 is declared illegal or unconstitutional, the remaining provisions not so declared must remain valid and effective.