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Executive Order No. 89 (1993)
addressing this concern will increase the confidence of these sectors in Governments sincerity and capability to address their needs, as well as enhance the credibility of the ongoing consultations being conducted by the NUC with various sectors of society;
Section 1. All heads of the executive departments, bureaus, instrumentalities, offices, and agencies of Government, as well as government-owned and controlled corporations, shall implement a policy and accessibility and transparency in accordance with the guidelines herein provided.
Section 2. All heads of executive departments, bureaus, instrumentalities, offices, and agencies of Government, as well as government-owned and controlled corporations, are required, one (1) month from the effectivity of this Executive Order, to submit to the Office of the President the guidelines governing procedures for obtaining access by the public to official records, and to documents, and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions or decisions, as well as to Government research data used as a basis for policy development in their respective offices, subject to such limitations as may be provided by law or by rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, such as, among others, those pertaining to national security and the defense of the State.
Section 3. All heads of offices referred to in the immediately preceding section are directed to post in conspicuous places within the premises of their respective offices the procedures for all public transactions or official business, including the procedure by which an aggrieved party may seek administrative redress for any violation of the aforementioned procedures, in the form of flow-charts, using clear and understandable language in Pilipino and the dialect predominantly spoken in the locality.
Section 4. Expenses incurred in compliance with this Executive Order shall be taken from the Contingent Funds of the respective offices. 1aшphi1
Section 5. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 18th day of May in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Three.
(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS President of the Philippines
By the President:
(Sgd.) ANTONIO T. CARPIO Chief Presidential Legal Counsel