Policy statement and intent
- The policy is to ensure transparency and full and appropriate disclosure of policies, programs, official activities, and achievements of the Office of the President and the Executive Branch that are of public concern.
- The Order recognizes the need to reorganize and rationalize the communications functions of the Office of the Press Secretary because multiple offices and agencies perform overlapping information-related functions.
- The Order aims to make message conceptualization, formulation, and development more integrated and harmonized, leveraging opportunities from rapid growth in existing and emerging media.
Reorganized office: Operations
- The Office of the Press Secretary is reorganized and renamed as the Presidential Communications Operations Office.
- The Presidential Communications Operations Office is headed by the Presidential Communications and Operations Head, who has the rank of Cabinet Secretary.
- The Presidential Communications and Operations Head receives all corresponding salaries, emoluments, and benefits of a Cabinet Secretary.
- The Operations Office performs functions that develop and implement guidelines for disseminating information on the policies, programs, official activities, and achievements of the President and the Executive Branch.
- The Operations Office develops, manages, and operates government-owned or controlled information dissemination structures and facilities so the Office of the President and the Executive Branch can access the people as an alternative to private mass media.
- The Operations Office sets up and maintains local and international field offices, where necessary, to relay and disseminate accurate information to intended audiences.
- The Operations Office manages, controls, or supervises agencies and offices involved in information gathering and dissemination.
- The Operations Office coordinates and cultivates relations with private media and manages and administers the OP Website and the Web Development Office.
- The Operations Office performs other functions that the President assigns from time to time.
Attached agencies under Operations
- The following agencies, bureaus, and offices are placed under the control and supervision of the Presidential Communications Operations Office:
- News and Information Bureau
- Philippine News Agency
- Philippine Information Agency
- Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) 13
- RPN 9
- NBN 4
- PBS-Radio-Television Malacanang
- Bureau of Communications Services
- National Printing Office
- APO Production Unit
- OP Web Development Office
Staff and internal units for Operations
- The Presidential Communications Operations Office maintains deputies and assistants necessary for its functions.
- The Operations Office specifically includes:
- Undersecretary for Administration and Finance
- Undersecretary for Operations
- Chief of Staff
- Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs
- Electronic Data Processing Division Chief
- Organizational staffing is further governed by a staffing-p rocedure that involves the Department of Budget and Management and the Office of the President, thru the Executive Secretary (see Section 9).
New office: Development and strategic planning
- The Order creates the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office.
- The Development and Strategic Planning Office coordinates the crafting, formulation, development, and enhancement of the messaging system under the Office of the President.
- The Development and Strategic Planning Office designs and recommends responses to issues arising on a daily basis.
- The Office ensures consistency in messages issued by the Executive Department.
- The Office assists in formulating and implementing new media strategies for the Office of the President.
- The Office assists in research and development of new media instruments.
- The Office liaises with the Malacañang Records Office.
- The Office controls and supervises market research, monitoring of public opinion, and gathering, use, and analysis of other relevant data necessary for communications work.
- The Office formulates editorial guidelines and policies for state media.
- The Office ensures consistency in the implementation of the corporate identity of the Executive Department.
- The Office acts as custodian of the Office of the President’s institutional memory, including supervision and control of the Presidential Museum and Library, and liaison with the Malacañang Records Office.
- The Office performs editorial functions for the Official Gazette.
- The Office performs other functions directed by the President.
Leadership and attached units for planning office
- The Development and Strategic Planning Office is managed by the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Head, who has the rank of Cabinet Secretary, with corresponding salaries, emoluments, and benefits.
- The Head is assisted by a Deputy with the rank of Undersecretary, with corresponding salaries, emoluments, and benefits, and whose functions are assigned by the Head.
- The planning office maintains other support service offices as necessary, including:
- Chief of Staff
- Assistant Secretary for Messaging
- Electronic Data Processing Division Chief
- The following agencies, bureaus, and offices are attached to the Development and Strategic Planning Office:
- Presidential Message Staff
- OP Correspondence Office
- previously placed under the Office of the Communications Director from the Presidential Management Staff per E.O. No. 348, 11 August 2004
- Media Research and Development Staff
- as created by E.O. No. 297, 25 July 1987, from the Office of the Press Secretary
- Presidential Museum and Library
- Official Gazette
- Speech Writers Group
- previously placed under the Office of the Communications Director from the Presidential Management Staff per E.O. No. 348, 11 August 2004
Staffing, budgeting, and continuity of functions
- The Presidential Communications Operations Office and the Development and Strategic Planning Office, in coordination with the Department of Budget and Management, must formulate and establish the organizational structure and staffing pattern of affected offices.
- The staffing pattern is composed of administrative and technical personnel deemed necessary to efficiently and effectively carry out functions under the Executive Order.
- The organizational structure and staffing pattern require approval from the Department of Budget and Management and the Office of the President, thru the Executive Secretary.
- The budget for the reorganized and created offices comes from the remaining budget of the Office of the Press Secretary and the Office of the President, as appropriate, for the current year, subject to existing and applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
- Succeeding years’ appropriations are prepared under regular government budget procedures.
- Except where this Executive Order requires otherwise, covered officials, offices, or agencies continue discharging their respective functions and responsibilities under existing law or issuances.
Implementation, repeals, and severability
- The Executive Secretary is authorized to issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to implement the Executive Order.
- The Executive Secretary is also designated to determine functional divisions of the offices, agencies, and bureaus mentioned that are under the control and supervision of the Office of the President, thru the Executive Secretary.
- Inconsistent orders, circulars, rules, regulations, and/or issuances, or parts thereof, are repealed or modified accordingly.
- Severability applies: if any provision is held unconstitutional, the remainder remains in full force and effect.