PCO, bibigyan ng bagong bihis, daragdagan ng mga bagong mukha

BIBIGYAN ng bagong bihis at daragdagan ng mga bagong mukha ang Presidential Communications Office (PCO).

Ito’y matapos na tintahan ni Pangulong Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ang Executive Order (EO) No. 16, inaprubahan ang reorganization ng  Presidential Communications Office (PCO)  para pagsama-samahin ang communications activities nito at tiyakin na episyente o epektibo ang serbisyong ibinibigay nito sa publiko.

“EO No. 16 supplements EO No. 11 (s 2022) signed by the President last December 29, 2022, which streamlined the administrative structure of the Office of the President (OP) and renamed the Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) to PCO,” ayon sa ulat.

Ang  aayusin na PCO ay paumunuan pa rin ng Kalihim na susuportahan naman ng limang (5) Undersecretaries,  (14) Assistant Secretaries, at isang  (1) Assistant Secretary na direktang magre-report sa PCO Secretary.

Pangungunahan ng limang Undersecretaries ang  functional areas sa aayusing PCO gaya ng Traditional Media and External Affairs; Digital Media Services; Content Production; Broadcast Production; at Operations, Administration and Finance.

Inatasan naman ang PCO  na makipagtulungan sa Presidential Adviser for Creative Communications sa mga bagay na may kinalaman sa “communications at information dissemination.”

“EO No. 16 also amends or modifies the relevant provisions of EO No. 2 (s 2022), which resulted in some Government Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCCs) being placed under the OP,” ayon pa rin sa ulat.

Ang GOCCs  gaya ng People’s Television Network, Inc., APO Production Unit, Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation, at National Printing Office ay ire-reattached sa  PCO kung saan ang mangangasiwa ay ang isang Assistant Secretary.

Samantala, ang iba pang communications agencies gaya ng  Presidential Broadcast Service-Bureau of Broadcast Services; Bureau of Communication Services; News and Information Bureau; Freedom of Information-Program Management Office; Philippine Information Agency; and the Presidential Broadcast Staff-Radio Television Malacañang ay ilalagay sa ilalim ng “direct control at supervision” ng  PCO, ayon sa EO.

Ang EO No. 16 ay nilagdaan ng Pangulo, kamakalawa, Pebrero 13, 2023, kagyat na magiging epektibo kapag nailathala na sa Official Gazette. (Daris Jose)