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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 802, June 6, 1996 ]

CALLING THE CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES TO A SPECIAL SESSION

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Constitution, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby call the Congress of the Philippines to a Special Session on June 07 to 10, 1996 to consider and act upon the following vital legislative measures:

1. Irrigation Crisis Act;

2. Comprehensive Tax Reform Package;

3. Optimization of the Use of Overseas Development Assistance Funds;

4. Amendments to EVAT Law;

5. Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Laws;

6. Repeal of the Uniform Currency Act;

7. Penalty for Violations of the Wage Rationalization Act;

8. System of Continuing Registration of Voters;

9. Expansion of the Coverage of Anti-Counterfeit Drugs Law;

10. Grant of Paternity Leave;

11. Allocation of PAGCOR fund for Science & Technology Scholarship Program;

12. Automatic Release of the 5% Calamity Fund of LGUs, and

13. Senate Resolution of Concurrence in Connection with the Philippine Ratification of the Second Protocol to the General Agreement on Trade in Services.1aшphi1

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 6th day of June in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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