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Constitution of the Philippines.
Date of text: 1987

Policies

Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028.
Date of text: 2023
National Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization and Industrialization Plan 2021-2030 (NAFMIP).
Date of text: 2022
Republic of the Philippines Nationally Determined Contribution Communicated to the UNFCCC on 15 April 2021.
Date of text: 15 April 2021
Philippine Water Supply and Sanitation Master Plan.
Date of text: 2021
Philippine National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2019-2023.
Date of text: 2019

Legislation

Agricultural and rural development

Organic Agriculture Act of 2010 (Republic Act No. 10068).
Date of text: 06 April 2010
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 (Republic Act No. 6657).
Date of text: 27 July 1987
Philippine Cooperative Code of 2008 (R.A.9520).
Date of text: 28 July 2008
Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (No. 8435).
Date of text: 28 July 1997
The Agriculture, Fisheries and Rular Development Financing Enhancement Act of 2022 (Republic Act No. 11901).
Date of text: 28 July 2022

Climate change

Climate Change Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9729 of 2009).
Date of text: 23 October 2009
Executive Order No. 320. Designating the department of environment and natural resources as the national authority for clean development mechanism.
Date of text: 25 June 2004
Commission Resolution No. 2019-001.Resolution adopting a national climate risk management framework to address the intensifying adverse impacts of climate change.
Date of text: 25 January 2019
DENR Administrative Order No.2016-13. Reconstituting and institutionalising the climate change office, to be called climate change service, in the office of the secretary.
Date of text: 17 June 2016
Executive Order No. 881 of the President of the Philippines authorizing the Climate Change Commission to coordinate existing climate change initiatives, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation – plus, and other similar mechanisms.
Date of text: 26 April 2010

Cultivated plants

Philippine Plant Variety Protection Act of 2002 (Republic Act No. 9168).
Date of text: 07 June 2002
Seed Industry Development Act, 1992 (Republic Act No. 7308 of 1992).
Date of text: 27 March 1992
Philippine Technology Transfer Act of 2009 (Republic No. 10055).
Date of text: 27 July 2009
Cotton Industry Development Law of 1998 (Republic Act No. 8486).
Date of text: 11 February 1998
Coconut Preservation Act, 1995 (Republic Act No. 8048 of 1995).
Date of text: 07 June 1995

Disaster risk management

Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Republic Act No. 10121 of 2010.
Date of text: 27 May 2010
Implementing Rules and Regulations of Republic Act No. 10121.
Date of text: 27 September 2010
Administrative Order No. 04 Series of 2020 on Creation of the Interim Department of Agriculture Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service (DADRRMS).
Date of text: 24 February 2020
Executive Order No. 52, s. 2018 creating the Programme Management Office for Earthquake Resiliency of the Greater Metro Manila Area.
Date of text: 08 May 2018
Executive Order No. 43, s. 2011 pursuing our Social Contract with the Filipino People through the Reorganization of the Cabinet Clusters.
Date of text: 13 May 2011

Environment

Presidential Decree No. 1152 - Philippine Environment Code.
Date of text: 06 June 1977
Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Republic Act No. 10121 of 2010.
Date of text: 27 May 2010
Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999, Republic Act No. 8749.
Date of text: 23 June 1999
Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control (Republic Act No. 6969 of 1990).
Date of text: 26 October 1990
Presidential Decree No. 1586 establishing an environmental impact statement system.
Date of text: 06 June 1978

Fisheries

Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 (Republic Act No. 8550).
Date of text: 25 February 1998
Philippine Cooperative Code of 2008 (R.A.9520).
Date of text: 28 July 2008
Fisheries Administrative Order No. 266 Series of 2020 promulgating the Rules and Regulations on the Implementation of Vessel Monitoring Measures (VMM) and Electronic Reporting System (ERS) for Commercial Philippine Flagged Fishing Vessels Amending Fisheries Administrative Order No. 260 Series oF 2018.
Date of text: 12 October 2020
Administrative Order No. 10 of 2015 implementing Rules and Regulations of the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 (R.A. No. 8550) as amended by R.A. No. 10654.
Date of text: 22 September 2015
Republic Act No. 11321 establishing the Farmers and Fisherfolk Enterprise Development Program (known as Sagip Saka Act).
Date of text: 17 April 2019

Food and nutrition

Food Safety Act 2013 (Republic Act No. 10611).
Date of text: 23 August 2013
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Act of 2009 (Republic Act No. 9711).
Date of text: 18 August 2009
Presidential Decree No. 856 Promulgating the Code on Sanitation of the Philippines.
Date of text: 23 December 1975
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (Republic Act No. 3720).
Date of text: 22 June 1963
Joint DA-DOH Administrative Order No. 2015-0007 implementing Rules and Regulations of the Food Safety Act of 2013.
Date of text: 29 February 2016

Forestry

Forestry Reform Code of the Philippines (Presidential Decree No. 705).
Date of text: 19 May 1975
Republic Act No. 10690 regulating forestry sector.
Date of text: 23 October 2015
Forest Resources Act of 2013.
Date of text: 13 July 2013
Republic Act No. 10452 establishing reforestation measures for 3.000 hectares of Public Lands in Cagayan de Oro City.
Date of text: 23 July 2012
Republic Act No.9175. An Act Regulating the Ownership, Possession, Sale, Importation and Use of Chainsaws, Penalising Violations thereof and for other Purposes.
Date of text: 07 November 2002

Gender

Republic Act No. 9710 "The Magna Carta of Women"(including the Implementing Rules and Regulations).
Date of text: 28 July 2008
Women in Development and Nation-Building Act (Republic Act No. 7192).
Date of text: 12 February 1992
Executive Order No. 209, s. 1987 approving the Family Code of the Philippines.
Date of text: 06 July 1987
Commission Resolution No.2019-002. Resolution mainstreaming and strengthening gender-responsive approaches in the formulation and implementation of climate change policies, plans, programs and activities.
Date of text: 25 January 2019

Indigenous peoples

Indigenous Peoples Rights Act 1997 (Republic Act No. 8371 of 1997).
Date of text: 01 January 1997
DENR-NCIP Joint Administrative Order No. 2017-01 on the Procedures for Securing Titles Under Section 12 of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) of 1997. (Ra 8371).
Date of text: 05 September 2017
2014 Revised Rules of Procedure before the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples.
Date of text: 09 October 2014
JOINT DAR-DENR-LRA-NCIP ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 01-12.
Date of text: 27 January 2012
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)- National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Administrative Order No. 2008-01 prescribing guidelines and procedures for the recognition, documentation, registration and confirmation of all Sustainable Traditional and Indigenous Forest Resources Management Systems and Practices (STIFRMSP) of Indigenous Cultural Communities or Indigenous Peoples in ancestral domain/land.
Date of text: 08 July 2008

Land and soil

Indigenous Peoples Rights Act 1997 (Republic Act No. 8371 of 1997).
Date of text: 01 January 1997
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 (Republic Act No. 6657).
Date of text: 27 July 1987
Agricultural Land Reform Code (Republic Act No. 3844).
Date of text: 08 August 1963
Public Land Act No. 141.
Date of text: 07 November 1936
Public Land Act (Republic Act No. 2874).
Date of original text: 29 November 1919 (30 January 1929)

Livestock

Republic Ac No. 8485 - The Animal Welfare Act of 1998.
Date of text: 15 February 1998
Domestic Animal Disease Prevention and Control Act of 1980.
Date of text: 1980
Anti-Rabies Act, 2007 (Republic Act No. 9482).
Date of text: 25 May 2007
Philippine Veterinary Medicine Act of 2004, Republic Act No. 9268.
Date of text: 19 March 2004
Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 (Republic Act No. 9165).
Date of text: 23 July 2001

Sea

Marine Pollution Decree of 1976 (Presidential Decree No. 979).
Date of text: 18 August 1976
Presidential Decree No. 600 on Marine Pollution of 1974.
Date of text: 09 December 1974
Republic Act No. 9295 on the Domestic Shipping Development Act of 2004.
Date of text: 03 May 2004
Section 1 of the Constitution defining the national territory of the Philippines.
Date of text: 17 January 1973
Republic Act No. 3046 of 1961 to define the baselines and the territorial sea of the Philippines.
Date of text: 17 June 1961

Social protection

Republic Act No. 11310 institutionalizing the "Pantawid Pamilyang" Filipino Program (4Ps).
Date of text: 23 July 2019
Republic Act No. 11058 an Act Strengthening Compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Standards and Providing Penalties for Violations Thereof.
Date of text: 17 August 2018
Republic Act No. 8425 institutionalizing the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Programme.
Date of text: 11 December 1997
Department Order - Rules and Regulations governing the Working and Living Conditions of Fishers on Board Fishing Vessels engaged in Commercial Fishing Operation (No. 156-16 of 2016).
Date of text: 15 June 2016
Department Order No. 156/16 promulgating Rules and Regulations Governing the Working and Living Conditions of Fishers on Board Fishing Vessels Engaged In Commercial Fishing Operation.
Date of text: 25 May 2016

Water

Presidential Decree No. 1067 - The Water Code of The Philippines.
Date of original text: 31 December 1976 (30 November 2000)
Provincial Water Utilities Act, 1973 (Presidential Decree No. 198).
Date of text: 25 May 1973
Republic Act No. 3931 creating the National Water and Air Pollution Control Commission.
Date of text: 18 June 1964
Free Irrigation Service Act (Republic Act No. 10969).
Date of text: 02 February 2018
Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 (Republic Act No. 9275).
Date of text: 22 March 2004

Wild species and ecosystems

Republic Act 11038. Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 2018.
Date of text: 22 June 2018
Memorandum Circular No. 2010-17 adopting the Wildlife Law Enforcement Manual of Operations as Guide in the Enforcement of Republic Act No. 9147 and other relevant Wildlife Laws, Rules and Regulations by Designated/deputized Wildlife Enforcement Officers, Environment and Natural Resources Officers and Members of the Wildlife Traffic Monitoring Units.
Date of text: 18 October 2010
Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act. (Republic Act No. 9147).
Date of text: 30 July 2001
National Integrated Protected Areas System Act 1992 (Republic Act No. 7586 of 1992).
Date of text: 01 June 1992
Joint DENR-DA-PCSD Administrative Order No. 1 Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) pursuant to Republic Act No. 9147.
Date of text: 18 May 2004

Miscellaneous

Civil Code of the Philippines.
Date of text: 1949
Renewable Energy Act of 2008 (Republic Act No. 9513).
Date of text: 16 January 2008
Biofuels Act of 2006 (Republic Act No. 9367).
Date of text: 24 July 2006
Philippine Mining Act of 1995 (Republic Act No. 7942).
Date of text: 03 March 1995
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (Republic Act No. 11285).
Date of text: 12 April 2019

International Agreements

Memorandum of Agreement between the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Date of text: 22 July 2015
Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Brazil and the Government of Philippines on the Cooperation in the field of Agriculture.
Date of text: 12 March 2013
Economic Cooperation Framework among the Government of the People's Republic of China, the Government of Brunei Darussalam, the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, the Government of Malaysia, and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines.
Date of text: 13 November 2009

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