DENR Administrative Order
No. 07
February 17, 1994
SUBJECT
ig the Issuance of
Certificate of Origin for Logs, Timber, Lumber and
Non-timber Forest Products.
Pursuant to P.D. No. 705, as amended, and in line with the sustainable
resource development thrust of the Government whereby the effective monitoring
ofthe movement of timber and other forest products is one of the major components
thereof, the following guidelines are hereby issued for the information and guidance
of all concerned.
Sec. 1 Policy and Objectives. It is the policy of the
Government to ensure the sustainable development of the timber and other forest
resources to support the needs of industries dependent thereon, as well as the
maintenance of a desirable ecosystems balance. Towards this end and in line with
the unrelenting drive of the agency to curb the unauthorized gathering and transport
of forest products the urgent need to reinforce existing strategies is imperative.
Sec. 2 Adoption of New Certificate of Origin Forms. There is
hereby adopted a new set of Certificate of Origin Forms (COFs) corresponding to
logs/timber, lumber and no-timber forest producta which shall replace the forms
which have hitherto been utilized for the purpose.
All new COFs issued pursuant to this Order shall be accountable forms of
the DENR. For this purpose, any official or employee receiving such COFs shall
account for their use or non-use as herein provided,
Sec. 3 COF Features and Distribution. ‘The printed and color-
coded COFs are assigned computer-based serial numbers, provided with properly
assigned perforated sections at the bottom portion to be detached by the DENR
official concerned, and bordered sections at the left hand side for describing the
route and perforating the validity date of the shipment to be covered by it. Said
forms shall be distributed as follows:Original Copy (Red) - For use by the purchaser’ consignee
and to accompany the specific
shipment.
Duplicate Copy (Yellow) - For file of the PENRO.
Triplicate Copy (Green) - For file of the licence/ supplier.
Quadruplicate Copy (Pink)- _For file of the CENRO.
Quintuplicate Copy (Orange)- For file of the RED.
Sextuplicate Copy (White)- For file of the USEC, Field Operations.
Sec. 4 Types of COFs to Accompany Transport/Shipment of
Forest Products. The transport/shipment of forest products shall be accompanied
or covered by the following forms:
4.1 For logsitimber - The original (color-code: RED) Certificate of
Timber Origin (CTO), together with the tally sheet
corresponding thereto;
42 Forlumber- The original (Color-code: RED) Certificate of Lumber
Origin (CLO), together with the sales invoice, in case of lumber
sales, and the tally sheet; and
43 For non-timber forest products - The original (color-code: RED)
Certificate of Non-timber Forest Products Origin (CNFPO),
together with the delivery receipt.
Any of the aforementioned forest products being transported or shipped
from the effectivity of this Order without the said corresponding COF fully and
properly accomplished as herein required shall be presumed as coming from illegal
sources and as such, shall be subject to confiscation and disposition in accordance
with Executive Order No. 277 and other applicable laws and implementing
regulations,Sec. 5 — Invalidation and Surrender of Previously Issued but
unused COFs. Immediately upon the effectivity of this Order, all old printed
COFs previously issued to the Regional Offices and which remain unused are
hereby deemed cancelled/invalidated and within 15 days thereafter shall be
surrendered by the RED concerned to the Undersecretary for Field Operations,
through the Director of the Forest Management Bureau. for further disposition
conformably with extant rules and regulations governing the matter. The
surrendered forms shall be accompanied by a consolidated Inventory Report,
indicating the category and serial numbers, duly signed by the RED concemed.
However, any old Certificate of Origin accompanying a shipment of forest
product issued prior to the effectivity of this Order shall be considered valid up to
its expiry date specified therein, or upon delivery of the forest product to its final
destination/consignee, whichever comes first
Sec. 6 Issuing Officer: Condition of Issue. In the case of the
transport of shipment of logs or timber, only Timber Management Officer (TMO)
who has jurisdiction over the area of such source and in case of the transport or
shipment of lumber and minor forest products, only the Scaler or the Community
Development Officer in charge of ISP projects who has jurisdiction over the area
of such source shall issue and sign the corresponding Certificate of Origin, duly’
attested to by the CENRO or his duly authorized representative,
For purpose hereof, elected Local Government Officials of the locality
where the oath is being administered are authorized to subscribe the Certificate of
in Form, aside from those who are already authorized by law to perform such
No Certificate of Origin shall be issued by the Office concerned unless the
forest product specifically covered thereby has been verified as coming from
legitimate sources, the forest product has been properly measured or scaled and
marked in accordance with DMC No. 13, S..1990, the Certificate Fee, and the
forest charges due thereon have been duly paid pursuant to R.A. No. 7161, and
the written request for the transport’shipment of such forest product has been filed
with the CENRO concerned at least one (1) week before the scheduled shipment
in case by watercraft or at least twenty-four (24) hours in case by trucks or land
conveyances.Sec. 7 Issuance and Validity. The Certificate of Origin shall be
issued on a per shipmentitransport basis and shall be valid fora period not exceeding,
fifteen (15) days (including Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays) from the date of
issuance. or after unloading or delivery of the shipment at the point of destination,
whichever comes first. In case of its expiration extension thereof shall be secured
from the nearest CENR field office where the shipment may have been held and
the officer concerned shall enter and sign such extension in the accompanying
Certificate of Origin.
Monitoring Officers are directed to record in their log books all presentation
of Certificates of Origin by their unique random numbers including the time of
presentation, identification of conveyances, etc. and shall examine shipments in
transit for compliance with the conditions and specifications in the Certificate of
Origin. Ifa shipment and accompanying documents are in order, the Monitoring
Officer (s) concerned shall stamp the accompanying Certificate of Origin with the
corresponding DENR seal before allowing the conveyance of the shipment to
‘ring Officer(s) hold for more than
proceed in its transit. Inno case shall a Mon
an hour a shipment that is in order.
To indicate that the Certificate of Origin accompanying the shipment has
been used already, and therefore, no longer valid, the CENRO at the point of
destination of the shipment shall fill up and then detach the portion appertaining
to him of the accompanying original Certificate of Origin. All such portions or
stubs shall be submitted by the CENRO concerned every end of the month to the
USEC for Field Operations, through the PENRO and the RED concerned and the
Director of FMB for records and validation purposes.
Sec, 8 Information Contained in Certificate of Origin. The
applicant for a Certificate of Origin shall furnish the CENRO concerned with the
following information which shall be placed in the Certificate of Origin
8.1 Number of pieces/volume and species of forest products under
shipment
8.2 Date of loading/transport
8.3 Point of loading84 Type and plate/registration number of conveyance
8.5 Name and address of consignee
8.6 Point of destination; and
8.7. Expected duration of shipment
Sec. 9 Application/Certificate Fee. For every application for the
issuance of a Certificate of Origin, a fee shall be collected based on the following
schedule:
9.1 Certificate of Timber/Lumber Origin - P 50.00
9.2 Certificate of Non-timber Forest
products origin = 30.00
9.3 Certificate of Verification!
transhipment - 20.00
94 Oath fee = 50.00
(to be paid for the services of
the person administering the oath
other than DENR Officials)
The official receipt covering such payments shall be attached to the
application.
Sec. 10 Exemptions. No Certificate of Origin shall be required in
the following instances:
10.1 __Logs/timber being transported from the licensee’s/permittee’s cutting area
to its wood processing plant or main log storage area, provided that such
facilities are located within the Province of source; provided further, that
in cases where the wood processing plant is located outside the province,
the transport/shipment thereof may be allowed, subject to prior approval
by the RED(s) concemed. Such approval shall be in the form of a specialauthority issued by the RED for a period not exceeding one (1) year,
subject to the following conditions:
10.1.1 The conveyance(s) is/are company-owned;
10.1.2 The delivery route is the normal route in the delivery of logs to
the log pond or log yard of the firm’s wood processing plant; and
10.1.3. Listing of the type and serial/plate number of the vehicle(s)
authorized for the purpose.
10.2 Transport/shipment of finished, semi-finished, or knocked-down forest
products, provided that these are accompanied by a delivery receipt or
sales invoice, together with the tally sheets;
10,3 Lumber and lumber products transported from source to buyer/end-user
within the confines of the Province or within the Greater Manila area,
provided, that the same are covered by the corresponding sales invoice
and/or delivery receipt;
10.4 Forest products transhipped from the point of initial unloading to its final
point of destination, provided accompanied by a Certificate of
Transshipment (COT) issued by the CENRO concerned indicating therein
the kind, number, volume, and consignee of the shipment as well as the
serial number of the Certificate of Origin accompanying the shipment;
and
10.5 Transport of logs/timber/lumber/other forest products derived from
planted trees or non-wood forest products inside private lands, provided
accompanied by a Certificate of verification issued by a DENR local
official at the CENRO level.
Sec. 11 Certificate of Origin, a Public Document. The Certificate
of Origin is a public document, it having been executed with the intervention of a
public official and forms part of the official records. Hence, no printing,
reproduction or copying by any and all means shall be made by any unauthorized
person.Sec. 12 Forest Products Shipment without CO. Forest products
being shipped transported without the accompanying original Certificate of Origin
cr the special authority to transport duly issued by a DENR Officer concerned
shall be presumed as coming from illegal sources and as such, the forest products
as coming from illegal sources and as such, the forest products including the
conveyance used shall be subject to confiscation and disposition and the offender
shall be prosecuted in accordance with P.D. 705, as amended, and other applicable
Jaws and regulations,
Sec. 13 Proper Accomplishment of COF. All blanks in a COF
shall be properly and accurately filled up and signed by the issuing Officer.
Likewise, the proper spaces therein shall be duly signed by the persons concerned.
A COF improperly. inaccurately or incompletely accomplished is not a valid
Certificate of Origin document and as such any forest product covered thereby
shall be temporarily held pending verification. When proven that such Certificate
of Origin was prepared not in conformity herewith or the information contained
therein do not correspond to the shipment at hand, both the shipper and the DENR
officer concerned shall be subject to administrative and/or criminal liability
Sec. 14 — Monthly Reporting. Field officials of the DENR who were
issued these accountable forms shall make and submit a monthly report of the
used and unused COFs to the USEC for Field Operations, through the Directors
of the Forest Management Bureau,
See. 15 Penalty Clause. Any log timber, lumber and non-timber
forest products covered by these regulations which are transported without the
prescribed documents shall be considered illegal and therefore, subject to
confiscation in favor of the government and shall be disposed in accordance with
laws, rules, and regulations governing the matter.
DENK Officers found issuing defective certificate of origin required in
this Order shall be subject to suspension without prejudice to the imposition of
other penalties as may be warranted by extant Civil Service laws, rules and
regulations,
Sec. 16 Additional Guidelines. The Undersecretary for Field
Operations is hereby authorized to issue additional guidelines and/or instructions
for the effective implementation of this Order.
10Sec. 17 Definition of Terms. As used in this Order, the following terms
shall be construed to mean as hereby defined.
a7 CERTIFICATE OF LUMBER ORIGIN (CLO) - Refers to the document
issued by DENR local official (CENRO) to accompany the shipmentitransport
of lumber showing the number of pieces, species, volume, place of loading,
conveyance and date of transport, its source and consignee.
172. CERTIFICATE OF NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS ORIGIN
‘CNFPO) - Refers to the document issued by the DENR Local Official at the
CENRO level to accompany the transport of non-timber forest product, place
and loading, conveyance used. date of transport, source and destination
consignee of the products to be transported.
173 CERTIFICATE OF TIMBER ORIGIN (CTO) - Refers to the document
issued by DENR local official at the CENRO level to accompany the transport
of logs/timber/ flitches, showing the number of pieces, species, volume in
cu.m. source and destination/consignee.
17.4 CERTIFICATE OF VERIFICATION (CV) - Refers to the document issued
by DENR local official at the CENRO level to show that the logs/timber,
lumber, or any wood or non-wood forest products come from private lands
indicating therein the quantity, volume, type of forest products and destination!
consignee of the commodities.
17.5 CERTIFICATE OF TRANSPORT AGREEMENT (CTA) - Refers to the
joint declaration made by the shipper and the owner of the conveyance used
in the transport, shipment, or movement of forest products that both parties
are aware of the documents required by forestry laws and regulations, and
that the conveyance used in the transport/shipment/movement of forest
products may be subject to confiscation /forfeiture if the forest products sought
to be transported/shipped/moved are not covered by the required/requisite
documents.
176 CERTIFICATE OF TRANSHIPMENT (COT) - Refers to
the document issued by the DENR local official at CENRO level to
accompany logs/ timber, lumber and other wood or non-wood
forest products being transhipped from initial —_port/ point of
entry to their final destination, showing the quantity /volume,
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type, conveyance used date of transhipment, serial number of mother
CO, and destination/consignee.
DEFECTIVE CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN - Means any document
with erasure or tampering, or where the information contained therein
do not tally with the actual shipment, or the use of facsimile of the official
forms issued by the DENR.
GREATER MANILA AREA - Refers to the cities and municipalities
covered by the National Capital Region (NCR) which includes the City
of Manila, Caloocan City, Pasay City, Quezon City, Las Pinas, Makati,
Malabon. Mandaluyong, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Paranaque,
Pasig, Pateros, San Juan, Taguig, Valenzuela; the Municipalities of
Meycauayan, Marilao, Bocaue, Balagtas and Guiguinto, Province of
Bulacan; the Municipalities of San Pedro, Binan, Sta, Rosa, Cabuyao,
Calamba, Los Banos, Calauan, and City of San Pablo, Province of Laguna;
the Municipalities of Antipolo, Cainta, Taytay, San Mateo and Montalban,
Province of Rizal; the Municipalities of Sto. Tomas, Tanauan; and City
of Lipa, Province of Batangas, and the entire Province of Cavite.
FOREST PRODUCTS - Refers to all biomass derived from the forest
resource including but not limited to timber, lumber, pulpwood,
woodbased fuel, bark,’ resin, gum, woodoil, honey, beeswax, palms,
wildlife and other as well as services derived from forest resources.
LUMBER - Solid wood not further manufactured other than sawings
resawing, kiln-drying and passing lengthwise through a standard planing
machine, including boules of unedged lumber.
LUMBER PRODUCTS, WOOD MANUFACTURES AND OTHER
WOOD FINISHED PRODUCTS - Articles further manufactured from
lumber 01 wood with moisture content not exceeding 15%, including but
not limited to wooden furniture and toys, packing cases, parquet floors,
doors, door components, doorslides, other building woodworks, window
components, mouldings, drawersides, cabinet and furniture components,
knock-down furniture components, picture frames, tool handles,
decorative articles, wooden shoes, toothpicks and chopsticks.
1217.12 FENISHED PRODUCT - Whole end-product ready for use without
need of further manufacture.
17.13. KNOCKED-DOWN - Finished or unfinished wood product whose
components or parts are taken apart for ease in packing, handling and
transporting to the market or end-users.
17.14. SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCT - Whole end-product requiring final
stages of manufacture and/or assembly.
Sec. 18 Repealing Clause - This supersedes DAO No. 34,
Series of 1988, DAO No. 96, series of 1989, DAO No. 59, series of 1993, as
amended, BFD Circular Nos. 8, 9, and 10, series of 1983, and provisions of Orders,
Circulars, and Instructions inconsistent herewith.
Sec. 19 Effectivity. This Order shall take effect upon
acknowledgement by the UP Law Center and fifteen days after its publication in
a newspaper of national circulation.
ANGEL C, ALCALA
Secretary
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