EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 355, September 08, 2004

ABOLISHING THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE ON EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRANSFERRING ITS FUNCTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT

WHEREAS, the Presidential Committee on Effective Governance (PCEG) was created by Executive Order No. 165 (s. 1999) to re-engineer the bureaucracy for better governance, and the PCEG has submitted various recommendations in relation thereto;

WHEREAS, one of the powers and functions of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) is the assessment of organizational effectiveness;

WHEREAS, the Administrative Code of 1987 grants the President continuing authority to reorganize the National Government;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

Section 1. The Presidential Committee on Effective Governance is hereby abolished, and its functions are hereby transferred to the Department of Budget and Management.

Section 2. All orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Section 3. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 8th day of September, in the year of our Lord, two thousand and four.

(SGD.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.) EDUARDO R. ERMITA

Acting Executive Secretary