1) The President issued EO420 requiring government agencies to streamline ID systems to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Petitioners allege this was unconstitutional as it usurped legislative powers.
2) The court ruled that the President has authority under the constitution to control executive departments and ensure laws are faithfully executed. Requiring uniform IDs was within this power and did not require new legislation.
3) EO420 implemented existing laws on cost reduction and efficiency, and did not make new laws. It was a valid exercise of executive power, not a usurpation of legislative functions. The petition was dismissed.
1) The President issued EO420 requiring government agencies to streamline ID systems to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Petitioners allege this was unconstitutional as it usurped legislative powers.
2) The court ruled that the President has authority under the constitution to control executive departments and ensure laws are faithfully executed. Requiring uniform IDs was within this power and did not require new legislation.
3) EO420 implemented existing laws on cost reduction and efficiency, and did not make new laws. It was a valid exercise of executive power, not a usurpation of legislative functions. The petition was dismissed.
1) The President issued EO420 requiring government agencies to streamline ID systems to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Petitioners allege this was unconstitutional as it usurped legislative powers.
2) The court ruled that the President has authority under the constitution to control executive departments and ensure laws are faithfully executed. Requiring uniform IDs was within this power and did not require new legislation.
3) EO420 implemented existing laws on cost reduction and efficiency, and did not make new laws. It was a valid exercise of executive power, not a usurpation of legislative functions. The petition was dismissed.
Date: 04/6/2006 KMU v. NEDA Petitioner: Kiussang Mayo Uno Respondent: NEDA Facts: In April 13, 2005, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo issued Executive Order 420 requiring all government agencies and government-owned corporations to streamline and harmonize their Identification Systems. The purposes of the uniform ID data collection and ID format are to reduce costs, achieve efficiency and reliability and ensure compatibility and provide convenience to the people served by government entities. Petitioners allege that EO420 is unconstitutional because it constitutes usurpation of legislative functions by the executive branch of the government and PGMA has authority to issue such order. Issue: WON issuance of E.0. 420 constitutes a usurpation of legislative functions. NO. Ruling: 1) T he President may by executive or administrative order direct the government entities under the Executive department to adopt a uniform ID data collection and format. Section 17, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution provides that the "President shall have control of all executive departments, bureaus and offices." The same Section also mandates the President to "ensure that the laws be faithfully executed." Certainly, under this constitutional power of control the President can direct all government entities, in the exercise of their functions under existing laws, to adopt a uniform ID data collection and ID format to achieve savings, efficiency, reliability, compatibility, and convenience to the public. The Presidents constitutional power of control is self-executing and does not need any implementing legislation. The Constitution also mandates the President to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed. There are several laws mandating government entities to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and in general, improve public services. The adoption of a uniform ID data collection and format under EO 420 is designed to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and in general, improve public services. Thus, in issuing EO 420, the President is simply performing the constitutional duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed. Clearly, EO 420 is well within the constitutional power of the President to promulgate. The President has not usurped legislative power in issuing EO 420. EO 420 is an exercise of Executive power the Presidents constitutional power of control over the Executive department. EO 420 is also compliance by the President of the constitutional duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed. Legislative power is the authority to make laws and to alter or repeal them. In issuing EO 420, the President did not make, alter or repeal any law but merely implemented and executed existing laws. EO 420 reduces costs, as well as insures efficiency, reliability, compatibility and user-friendliness in the implementation of current ID systems of government entities under existing laws. Thus, EO 420 is simply an executive issuance and not an act of legislation. EO 420 does not require any special appropriation because the existing ID card systems of government entities covered by EO 420 have the proper appropriation or funding. EO 420 is not compulsory on all branches of government and is not compulsory on all citizens. EO 420 requires a very narrow and focused collection and recording of personal data while safeguarding the confidentiality of such data. In fact, the data collected and recorded under EO 420 are far less than the data collected and recorded under the ID systems existing prior to EO 420. EO 420 does not establish a national ID card system. EO 420 does not compel all citizens to have an ID card. EO 420 applies only to government entities that under existing laws are already collecting data and issuing ID cards as part of their governmental functions. Every government entity that presently issues an ID card will still issue its own ID card under its own name. The only difference is that the ID card will contain only the five data specified in Section 3 of EO 420, plus the fingerprint, the agency ID number, and the common reference number which is needed for cross-verification to ensure integrity and reliability of identification. CARL M!C"AEL #$ %A&!ER '4(A) AR*!CLE &!! #EC$ +, 0-/+,/20++ A**.$ CANDELAR!A