The authorities has set the foundations and rules (IRR) of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s order streamlining the method for the development of telecommunications and web infrastructure.
Executive Order (EO) No. 32, issued on July 4, 2023, institutionalizes a set of streamlined tips for the issuance of permits, licenses, and certificates for the development of telecommunications and web infrastructure, together with these referring to the set up, restore, operation, and upkeep of such infrastructures, based on the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) on Friday.
“These Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) are hereby promulgated and issued as Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2023-01 to guide all concerned departments, offices, agencies, and stakeholders, in the implementation of EO No. 32,” the memorandum learn.
The PCO stated EO 32 additionally mandated the creation of a technical working group (TWG) composed of the next companies:
- Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT),
- Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA),
- National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), and
- Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)
Under the IRR, unified utility kind will likely be adopted, by which preformatted kind constructing allow functions shall be prescribed in all cities and municipalities within the nation.
Those making use of for a constructing allow shall be required to submit property paperwork, technical paperwork, top clearance allow, and householders affiliation (HOA) clearance, along with the unified utility kind.
It additionally stated that to safe a Certificate of Use and a Business or Mayor’s allow, candidates ought to submit the next, amongst others:
- certificates of completion,
- building logbook,
- photocopy of legitimate licenses,
- {photograph} of construction, yellow card/clearance from electrical service supplier, and
- copy of As-Built Plan reflecting adjustments and modifications.
The IRR additionally set the necessities for the erection of poles and building of underground fiber ducts, cable structure on current poles and different bodily infrastructure, in addition to the operation, restore and upkeep of passive telecommunications tower infrastructure (PTIIs), together with distribution utility amenities.
Rules for securing clearances from different authorities companies and native authorities’s adoption of EO No. 32 had been additionally spelled out within the IRR.
It mandates all cities to arrange a One-Stop Shop for Construction Permits, ideally on the Office of the Building Official, which can present frontline providers to candidates securing constructing permits and different certificates associated to telecommunications and web infrastructure.
The IRR additionally prohibits anti-competitive actions and directs companies and native authorities models (LGUs) to implement zero-backlog coverage in all utility for permits and clearances coated below the order. —KBK, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
