In this post, we will provide you a downloadable compilation of energy and electric power industry related laws, including Executive Orders, Republic Acts, Presidential Decrees, Commonwealth Acts, and Implementing Rules and Regulations, in the Philippines. This includes the following;

• EO 471 - Declaring Full Deregulation of the Downstream Oil Industry
• EO 137 - Expanding the sources and Utilization of the Oil Price Stabilization Fund (OPSF) by Amending Presidential Decree No. 1956
• RA 7832 - An Act Penalizing the Pilferage of Electricity and Theft of Electric power Transmission/ Materials, Rationalizing System Losses by Phasing Out Pilferage Losses as a Component Thereof and for other purposes.
• PD 1128 - Further Amending Republic Act Numbered Six Thousand One Hundred Seventy-Three, as Amended Otherwise Known as the Oil Industry Commission Act
• EO 392 - Declaring Full Deregulation of the Downstream Oil Industry
• EO 1573 - Amending Presidential Decree no. 1206 Creating the Department of Energy
• PD 1722 - Creating the National Coal Authority Defining its Powers and Functions, Providing Funds Thereof, and For Other Purposes.
• Batas Pambansa Blg. 33 - An Act Defining and Penalizing Certain Prohibiting Acts inimical to the Public Interest and National Security Involving Petroleum and/or Petroleum Products, Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for other Purposes
• PD 1700 - Granting the Board of Energy to Regulate and Fix the Rates of Pipeline Concessionaires and Amending for that Purpose Section 9 of Presidential Decree No. 1206
• PD 1865 - Amending Batas Pambansa Bilang 33, Entitled “Act Defining and Penalizing Certain Prohibiting Acts inimical to the Public Interest and National Security Involving Petroleum and/or Petroleum Products, Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for other Purposes”, By Including Short Selling and Adulteration of Petroleum and Petroleum Products and Other Acts in the Definition of prohibited Acts Increasing the Penalties Therein, and For Other Purposes.
• RA 8479 - An Act Deregulating The Downstream Oil Industry and For Other Purposes
• RA 8180 - An Act Deregulating the Downstream Oil Industry, and for other Purposes
• RA 6173 - An Act Declaring a National Policy on the Petroleum Industry, regulating the activities and Relations of Persons and Entities Engaged Therein, Establishing an Oil Industry Commission to Effective and Same, and Defining Its Functions, Powers and Objectives, and For Other Purposes.
• Commonwealth Act No. 146 - An Act to Reorganize the Public Service Commission, Prescribe its Powers and Duties, Define and Regulate Public Services, Provide and Fix the Rates and Quota of Expenses to be Paid by the Same, and for other Purposes.
• PD 1206 - Creating the Department of Energy
• Commonwealth Act No. 349 – An Act Creating a Standardizing Laboratory to Carry Out the Provisions of the Public Service Act on Meter Testing and Providing Funds Therefore.
• EO 172 - Creating The Energy Regulatory Board
• EO 193 - Providing for the Reorganization of the Office of Energy Affairs and For other Purposes
• EO 86 - Fixing the Rate of Return of Rate Base of the National Power Corporation at Twelve Percent of the Rate Base as Defined in Section 4 of the Republic Act No. 6395, as Amended.
• EO 215 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 40 and Allowing the Private Sector to Generate Electricity
• EO 473 - Providing for the Segregation and Unbundling of Electrical Power Tariff Components of the National Corporation and the Franchised Electric Utilities
• ERB Resolution NO. 95-21
• ER 1-95 - Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of EO 215
• PD 40 - Establishing Basic Policies for the Electric Power Industry
• PD 87 - Amending Presidential Decree No. 8 Issued on October 2, 1972, and Promulgating an Amended Act to Promote the Discovery and Production of Indigenous Petroleum and Appropriate Funds Therefor.
• PD 1722 - Creating the National Coal Authority Defining Its Powers and Functions, Providing Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes
• PD 1956 - Imposing An Ad Valorem Tax on Certain Manufactured Oils and other Fuels; Bunker Fuel Oil and Diesel Fuel Oil; Revising the Rates of Specific Tax Therefor; Abolishing the Oil Industry Special Fund; and for Other Purposes.
• RA 7648 - An Act Prescribing Urgent Related Measures Necessary and Proper to Effectively Address the Electric Power Crisis and For Other Purposes.
• RA 387 - An Act to promote the Exploration, Development, exploitation, and Utilization of the Petroleum Resources of the Philippines; To encourage the Conservation of Such Petroleum Resources; To Authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources to Create and Administration Unit And Technical Board in the Bureau of Mines; To Appropriate Funds Therefore; and For Other Purposes.
• RA 7832 - An Act Penalizing the
• Philippine Grid Code
• Philippine Distribution Code
• RA 9136 - An Act Ordaining Reforms in the in the Electric Power Industry Amending for the Purpose certain Laws and for other Purposes
• Rules and Regulations to Implement RA 9136.
• Wholesale Spot Electricity Market (WESM) Rules

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