EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 151, October 07, 1968

AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 213 DATED NOVEMBER 12, 1956, ENTITLED “REQUIRING ALL DEPARTMENTS, BUREAUS, OFFICES, AGENCIES, INSTRUMENTALITIES, AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THE CORPORATIONS OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT, THE ARMED FORCES, GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS, AND PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO BUY FROM THE NATIONAL RICE AND CORN CORPORATION AND THE CENTRAL COOPERATIVE EXCHANGE, INC., WHENEVER AVAILABLE, ALL THEIR REQUIREMENTS FOR RICE.”

WHEREAS, it is the policy of the Government to help the Filipino farmers and to patronize commodities sold by corporations or associations owned or controlled by them; and

WHEREAS, the Rice and Corn Administration, the Central Cooperative Exchange, Inc., and the Grains Marketing Cooperative of the Philippines, Inc., which are the central marketing bodies of all the farmer cooperative marketing associations, including agricultural land reform areas, have rice stocks of different varieties which can be procured at comparatively lower prices;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

1. All requisitions for rice needed by all departments, bureaus, offices, agencies, instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the Government, including corporations owned or controlled by the Government, the Armed Forces, government hospitals, and public educational institutions, shall be forwarded to the Rice and Corn Administration, the Central Cooperative Exchange, Inc., and the Grains Marketing Cooperative of the Philippines, Inc., for the purpose of filling such requisitions, whenever available, from the stocks outside of what might have been reserved to meet the requirements of the consuming public.

2. The Rice and Corn Administration, the Central Cooperative Exchange, Inc., and the Grains Marketing Cooperative of the Philippines, Inc., in the case government-owned or controlled corporations, shall furnish the Bureau of Supply with samples of their rice stocks together with all specifications of quality and quantity thereof which are available every quarter of the year.

3. Unjustifiable specifications of the quality of the rice required made in said requisitions shall be considered as a circumvention of the provisions of the Order and shall be disregarded.

4. For the implementation of this Order, the Office of Economic Coordination, upon recommendation of the Rice and Corn Administration, the Central Cooperative Exchange, Inc., and the Grains Marketing Cooperative of the Philippines, Inc., is hereby empowered to promulgate such supplementary rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary.

Executive Order No. 213 dated November 12, 1956, is hereby amended accordingly.

Done in the City of Manila, this 7th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-eight.

(SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) JOSE J. LEIDO, JR.

Acting Executive Secretary