Memorandum Circular No. 315




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES [ Memorandum Circular No. 315, January 30, 1970 ] REQUIRING ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, SUBDIVISIONS AND INSTRUMENTALITIES TO MAKE A CHART OR OUTLINE OR THEIR RESPECTIVE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR DISSEMINATION TO THEIR CLIENTELE AND INFORMATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WHEREAS, the standard operating procedures by various government offices and entities in any matter of official business are mostly unknown to or not fully understood by the general public; WHEREAS, such lack of adequate information has caused the public to engage the services of third parties (fixers) in transacting official business with government offices, agencies and instrumentalities, thereby creating a situation conducive to the perpetration of corrupt practices against which this administration of pursuing a determined campaign.; WHEREAS, it is believed that the publication of the aforesaid standard operating procedures would preclude the need of the pubic for outside assistance provided by “fixers” in dealing with the government, and consequently eliminate a source of graft and corruption; It is, therefore, hereby directed that all government agencies, subdivisions and officers, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, prepare a chart or outline, in simplified but comprehensive form, of their respective standard operating procedures for posting or display in appropriate conspicuous places in their office premises within three(3) months from the receipt of this circular. Copies of said standard operating procedures shall be furnished the Presidential Agency or Reforms and Government Operations (PARGO) and the Management Service of the Budget Commission. The latter shall review and evaluate of the SOP’s submitted and recommend modifications and improvement.1âшphi1 The PARGO shall supervise the implementation of this Circular. Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of January in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Seventy. By authority of the President: (SGD.) ERNESTO M. MACEDA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation