Special Provision(s)
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1.           Use of the Fund. Except where otherwise stated, the amounts herein appropriated may be used as subsidy and/or equity investment to GOCCs:  PROVIDED, That payment of salaries, allowances and other benefits shall be in accordance with P.D. No. 985 and R.A. No. 6758, as amended, and R.A. No. 7305 and that retirement gratuities paid from this fund shall be computed in accordance with the rates, conditions and procedures prescribed under existing retirement laws, rules and regulations:  PROVIDED, FURTHER, That this fund may be used for payment of retirement or separation benefits, in accordance with existing laws, of personnel of government-owned and/or controlled corporations which are financially unable to pay said benefits, subject to the submission and approval of a streamlining program, as well as other measures that will enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the GOCC concerned:  PROVIDED, FURTHERMORE, That in no case shall equity investments be used for salaries, allowances, retirement gratuities and other benefits, except in cases authorized by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM):  AND PROVIDED, FINALLY, That releases shall be subject to Section 35, Chapter 5, Book VI of E.O. No. 292 and Letter of Implementation No. 29.
2.           Special Compensation and Other Benefits.  GOCCs, including government financial institutions (GFIs), legally enjoying special compensation and other benefits which are superior to those authorized under R.A. No. 6758, as amended, shall be governed by such special laws, subject to the approval of the President of the Philippines.  As such, they shall not be entitled to the benefits accruing to government employees covered by the compensation standardization scheme.
3.           Fund Releases for Budgetary Support to Government Corporations.  Funds herein appropriated shall be under the administration of the DBM.  Said funds shall be directly released to the recipient corporation through the Bureau of the Treasury.  All requests for fund releases for subsidies or equity investments to government corporations shall be included in their respective Corporate Operating Budgets (COBs) duly approved by their respective Governing Boards.
4.           Offsets Against Budgetary Support to Government Corporations.  The appropriations herein authorized may be offset by the Bureau of the Treasury against the corporate payments of cash dividends under R.A. No. 7656, guarantee fees, advances for the loans relent to corporations, obligations which are guaranteed by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, and other receivables of the National Government from the corporations.  If the total level of actual revenues at the end of the immediate past year, liquid assets e.g., cash and short-term investments, bond investments and other fund sources of the government corporation exceed the corresponding projections considered in the formulation of the current year’s budgetary support program, the excess may be deducted from the said program and the budgetary support may be reduced to the extent of such favorable result.
5.           Submission of Corporate Operating Budgets (COBs) and Other Related Financial Statements.  All government-owned and/or controlled corporations, including government financial institutions, shall submit through the Secretary of Budget and Management their respective FY 2003 corporate operating budgets duly approved by the Governing Board of the Corporations for consideration and approval of the President of the Philippines.  The corporate operating budgets shall be prepared following the procedures and guidelines prescribed for the purpose to be evaluated as part of the budget process by the Secretary of Budget and Management pursuant to the provisions of E.O. No. 518 dated January 23, 1979 and the Administrative Code of 1987:  PROVIDED, That the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC), the National Power Corporation (NPC) and the National Electrification Administration (NEA) shall be governed further by the requirements of R.A. No. 7638.
6.           Submission of Quarterly Reports.  GOCCs shall submit to the House Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Finance and the Department of Budget and Management their quarterly corporate financial, physical and narrative accomplishment reports within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter.
7.           Subsidy for Projects of the National Electrification Administration.  The amount herein appropriated for NEA shall be used exclusively for rural electrification projects and shall in no case be used for salaries, wages, honoraria, allowances, separation benefits and similar personnel benefit expenditures:  PROVIDED, That the appropriation for rural electrification projects shall be equitably allocated:  PROVIDED, FURTHER, That such subsidy releases may be used to cover loans outlays to electric cooperatives:  PROVIDED, FINALLY, That the amount corresponding to the grants to the electric cooperatives shall remain as subsidy.
8.           Subsidy to the National Food Authority.  The amount herein appropriated for NFA shall be used exclusively for the price stabilization and food security program of the National Food Authority (NFA).  The NFA shall buy directly from farmers or their organizations, whose names together with the quantity purchased and the price paid shall be posted by NFA in a list verified under oath in the municipality where the farmers live:  PROVIDED, That funds for the purpose shall be released in time for the harvest season:  PROVIDED, FURTHER, That in case of calamities or fortuitous events or shortfall in production, such amount or a portion thereof, may be used for the importation of rice and corn as recommended by the National Food Authority Council and approved by the President:  PROVIDED, FINALLY, That the pricing scheme for imported rice and corn shall, as far as practicable, consider the full cost recovery. 
9.           Report on Rice Stocks.  All warehouses duly licensed or accredited by the NFA shall, within thirty (30) days after the end of each quarter, submit to the NFA Administrator a quarterly report on actual rice stocks  in their warehouse as  of the  end of
each quarter.  The NFA Administrator shall furnish the Congressional Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization copy of the consolidated quarterly report on actual rice stock.
10.      Subsidy to the National Housing Authority.  The appropriations herein authorized for NHA shall be released upon submission of the listing and details of projects to be approved by the National Housing Authority (NHA) Board.  The funds shall, as far as applicable, be equitably allocated by legislative district:  PROVIDED, That the amount appropriated for Resettlement and Medium Rise Public and Private Housing Programs shall be released in accordance with the implementing rules and regulations of R.A. No. 7835 dated December 16, 1994 providing for a Comprehensive and Integrated Shelter and Urban Development Financing Program issued by the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council:  PROVIDED, FURTHER, That the appropriation herein authorized for Medium-Rise Public and Private Housing Programs shall constitute the Trust Fund to be managed and administered by the NHA in accordance with the implementing rules and regulations of R.A. No. 7835:  PROVIDED, FINALLY, That NHA shall submit reports indicating, among others, the breakdown of disbursements made for the aforesaid programs to the Senate and House Committees on Housing, Senate Committee on Finance and House Committee on Appropriations.