PhD BA 317: LEGAL BASES OF BUSINESS WITH

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Saturday 5:00-7:00 PM

 ACTIVITY #1: THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE LAW

 Make a 3 paragraph reaction/ comment on this statement with full

explanation and illustrations.
Reaction
The proposition is true because our country has hundreds of good laws
which our intelligent legislators have enacted. If we read our laws, it
comprises provisions that focus on justice, peace, security, and the
Philippine constituents' welfare. However, as an observation of what is
happening in our community (country), some of these laws are not well-
implemented. They are being compromised. The laws are being
violated.

The most common law that I believe lacks effective law enforcement is
RA 9003 or the “Ecological Solid Waste Management Act” that
provides a systematic, comprehensive, and ecological waste
management program to ensure the protection of public health and the
environment. Looking around my community, watching the news from
television, we could see piles and tons of garbage everywhere, causing
air pollution and even choking the oceans. Another law that I think of
ineffective implementation is Republic Act No. 8550, also known as
“The Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998” an act providing for the
development, management, and conservation of the fisheries and
aquatic resources, integrating all laws pertinent thereto, and for other
purposes. Despite this act, destructive fishing and over-fishing, including
the use of cyanide in collecting fishes, are still practiced. Hence causing
significant threat to the marine environment, which is extremely diverse
in the Philippines.
For me, it is not the number of enacted laws that counts but how well
law enforcers implement or execute the law that matters. We may have
thousands of laws or regulations but lacks enforcement. It would be of
no use. What we need, therefore, are people who can willfully and
courageously implement our laws. For us, citizens, we must comply
and abide by the law of the land so that we could live in a safe and
healthy environment, in harmony with nature and other creatures.

Referenes
Alegado, J. (2019, January 27.) “Do your job and don’t violate the laws”,
environmental groups told DENR. https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/

Hibbits, B. (2007, August 30.) Philippines: Enforcing Environmental Laws.

https://www.jurist.org/

Sarmiento, B. (2018, October 12.) Philippines central government on solving

plastic trash problem: “We’ve done all we can.’ https://www.eco-business.com/