The Philippine Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has streamlined its processes, reducing by almost half the number of department administrative orders (DAOs) it has issued to 124 from 257.
“We have revoked obsolete and non-responsive department orders and expunged them from our working files,” Trade Secretary Gregory Domingo said in a statement, adding that the “streamlining aims to provide clearer guidance to our stakeholders and make it easier for them to comply with requirements.”
The remaining DAOs, implementing rules and regulations, orders, and circulars have been put together in a compendium that will round out DTI’s contributions to the good governance program of the Aquino administration.
“We will talk to other agencies about this effort and hope that our experience will encourage them to undertake similar actions,” Domingo said.
DTI said the compendium strengthens the department’s policy framework and helps ensure the swift and efficient delivery of its services. It is also in keeping with DTI’s championing of the Anti-Red Tape Act (ARTA) that won for it the Breakthrough Agency Award in 2014.
“The streamlining effort is a further manifestation of the Department’s resolve to progressively make it easy to do business in the country,” DTI noted.
“Consumers, businessmen and the general public will now have at their fingertips the information they need to start up, engage in, and grow their businesses,” Domingo said.
The compendium will be published online and may soon be accessed by the public at DTI website’s laws and policies page.
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