Section 1
Section 1. The National Nutrition Council is hereby transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Health.
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Executive Order No. 472 (2005)
Executive Order No. 472 (2005)
Executive Order No 234, "reorganizing the National Nutrition Council" issued on 22 July 1987 transferred and attached NNC from DA to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) which reaffirmed the need for an inter-sectoral national policy making and coordinating body on nutrition;
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Section 2
Section 2. The Secretary of the Department of Health shall be the ex-officio Chairperson of the Governing Board of the National Nutrition Council with the Secretaries of Department of Agriculture and the Department of Interior and Local Governemnt as ex-officio Vice-Chairpersons.
Section 3
Section 3. The National Nutrition Council Executive Director shall undertake the steps necessary to ensure reallignment of its operations to focus on client-based operations and prioritize addressing hunger and malnutrition and formulate the operational guidelines of its Executive Order.
Section 4
Section 4. The Naational Nutrition Council shall endorse to donor agencies and the National Economic Development Agency project proposals for local funding and official development assistance and is authorized, subject to existing laws and the usual government acounting and auditing rules and regulations, to generate and mobilize resources for addressing hunger and malnutrition consistent with the Millennium Development Goals.
Section 5
Except as herei provided and subject to the provisions of Executive Order No
Section 5. Except as herei provided and subject to the provisions of Executive Order No. 234, series of 1987, there shall be no changes in the existing structure and staffing patern of the National Nutrition Council.
Section 6
This Executive Order shall take effect immediately
Section 6. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila this 30th day of November in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Five.
(Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
By the President:
(Sgd.) MA. MERCEDITAS N. GUTIERREZ
Acting Executive Secretary