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Executive Order No. 192 dated June 10, 1987 Providing for the Reorganization of the
Department of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources, Renaming it as the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, and for other Purposes.
MANDATE
Executive Order No. 192 mandates the DENR to be the primary government agency responsible
for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the countrys environment
and natural resources, specifically forest and grazing lands, mineral resources, including those in
reservation and watershed areas, and lands of the public domain, as well as the licensing and
regulation of all natural resources as may be provided for by law in order to ensure equitable
sharing of the benefits derived therefrom for the welfare of the present and future generations of
Filipinos.
To accomplish this mandate, the Department shall be guided by the following objectives:
1. Assure the availability and sustainability of the country's natural resources through
judicious use and systematic restoration or replacement, whenever possible
2. Increase the productivity of natural resources in order to meet the demands for
forest, mineral, and land resources of a growing population;
3. Enhance the contribution of natural resources for achieving national economic and
social development;
5. Conserve specific terrestrial and marine areas representative of the Philippine natural
and cultural heritage for present and future generations.
VISION
"A nation enjoying and sustaining its natural resources and clean and healthy environment."
MISSION
To mobilize our citizenry in protecting, conserving and managing the environment and natural
resources for the present and future generations.
CORE FUNCTIONS
DENR is tasked to formulate and implement policies, guidelines, rules and regulations relating to
environmental management and pollution prevention and control.
Formulate implement and supervise the government's policies, plans and programs pertaining to
the management, conservation, development, use and replenishment of the country's natural
resources and ecological diversity; and
Promulgate and implement rules and regulations governing the exploration, development,
extraction, disposition, and use of the forests, lands, minerals, wildlife, and other natural
resources.
In line with the above mentioned priority agenda, the DENR, in the performance of its mandate
under a regime of good environmental governance, will continuously implement in FY 2014 the
following major programs that would ably create high impact and provide for longer-term
solutions to more pressing environmental issues and concerns:
The ERDB was created in June 1987 under Executive Order (EO) 192 that merged the function of
the former Forest Research Institute (FORI) and the National Mangrove Committee. Its
headquarters is located at the University of the Philippines Los Baos, College of Forestry and
Natural Resources (UPLB-CFNR) campus in the municipality of Los Baos, province of Laguna,
Philippines about 65 kms south of Manila.
The Forest Management Bureau (FMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources provides support for the effective protection, development, occupancy management, and
conservation of forest lands and watersheds. It collaborates with international and local
development organizations in several forestry development programs.
*Advises the Regional Offices in the implementation of the above policies and/or programs;
*Develops plans, programs, operating standards and administrative measures to promote the
Bureaus objectives and functions;
*Assists in the monitoring and evaluation of forestry and watershed development projects to
ensure efficiency and effectiveness;
*Undertakes studies on the economics of forest-based industries, including the supply and
demand trends on the local, national and international levels, identifying investment problems and
opportunities in various areas
There is hereby created the Lands Management Bureau which shall absorb functions and powers of
the Bureau of Lands except those line functions and powers which are transferred to the regional
field office. The Lands Management Bureau to be headed by a Director and assisted by an Assistant
Director shall advise the Secretary on matters pertaining to rational land classification management
and disposition and shall have the following functions, but not limited to:
Recommend policies and programs for the efficient and effective administration, surveys,
management and disposition of alienable and disposable lands of the public domain and
other lands outside the responsibilities of other government agencies; such as reclaimed
areas and other areas not needed for or are not being utilized for the purposes for which they
have been established;
Advise the Regional Offices on the efficient and effective implementation of policies,
programs and projects for more effective public lands management;
Assist in the monitoring and evaluation of land surveys, management and disposition of
lands to ensure efficiency and effectiveness thereof;
Issue standards, guidelines, regulations and orders to enforce policies for the maximization
of land use and development;
Develop operating standards and procedures to enhance the Bureau's objectives and
functions;
Assist the Secretary as Executive Officer charged with carrying out the provisions of the
Public Land Act (C.A. 141, as amended), who shall have direct executive control of the
survey, classification, lease, sale or any other forms of concessions or disposition and
management of the lands of the public domain;
Perform other functions as may be assigned by the Secretary and/or provided by law.
RA 6969 (Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990)
Under E.O. 192, EMB is mandated to provide research and laboratory services; and serve as
secretariat in the adjudication of pollution cases.
Under EO 320, EMB is designated as the secretariat of the Designated National Authority for CDM
of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
International Commitments
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous
Chemicals and Pesticides in International Use
FUNCTIONS
a. Advise the Secretary on matters relating to Environmental Management
b. Formulate plans and policies and set appropriate environmental quality standards (Water, Air
And Noise) for the prevention, control of pollution and protection of the environment
c. Exercises direct supervision over its regional offices in the implementation of plans and
programs. The central and regional offices of the bureau discharge both staff and regulatory
functions
f. Develop and implement a research and development program in support of the following:
Conserving Wildlife
Managing Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center and the Hinulugang Taktak National
Park
Mission
Establishment, management and development of the National Integrated Protected Areas System
Vision
Since its creation in 1982, NRDC has been involved in projects like reforestation, management
and disposition of lahar materials, mining, development of patrimonial properties and fund
management for EIA RC.