November 16, 1974

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 437

AMENDING THE COMPOSITION OF THE AGRARIAN REFORM COORDINATING COUNCIL CREATED UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 347, SERIES OF 1971

WHEREAS, the reorganization of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources into the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Natural Resources, has caused a change in the composition and membership of the Agrarian Reform Coordinating Council created under Executive Order No. 347, Series of 1971;

WHEREAS, the integrated approach to agrarian reform for tenurial improvement, physical, institutional and agricultural development requires the membership of other government agencies in the Council; and

WHEREAS, our country cannot now afford to slow down the implementation of the Agrarian Reform Program;

NOW, THEREFORE, in view of my earnest desire to implement fully and effectively the agrarian reform program as set forth in Presidential Decrees Nos. 2 and 27, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby amend the composition and membership of the Agrarian Reform Coordinating Council as created under Executive Order No. 347, Series of 1971, as follows:

Secretary Conrada F. Estrella                                  Chairman

Department of Agrarian Reform

Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile                                     Member

Department of National Defense

Secretary Cesar Virata                                              Member

Department of Finance

Secretary Vicente Abad Santos                               Member

Secretary Arturo R. Tanco, Jr.                                   Member

Department of Agriculture   cdt

Secretary Jose S. Leido, Jr.                                      Member

Department of Natural Resources

Secretary David Consunji                                           Member

Department of Public Works,

         Transportation and Communication

Secretary Jose A. Roño                                              Member

Department of Local Government

         and Community Development

Secretary Baltazar Aquino                                         Member

Department of Public Highways

The Council shall be convened as often as possible exercise its function of providing technical advice and assistance to the Department of Agrarian Reform and effective inter-departmental coordination and cooperation among agencies and institutions performing functions related to agrarian reform. The Chairman shall organize a Secretariat to provide staff and clerical services to the Council.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.