PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO.

1586

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
STATEMENT SYSTEM OF 1978

 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT SYSTEM OF 1978

PD No. 1586 was ratified on June 11, 1978, by the late President Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
It is a planning and management tool to determine and assess the potential impact of actions on the environment and
the means to mitigate them
PD 1586 assesses the direct and indirect impacts of a proposed project to the environment, community as well as to the
surroundings. They identify areas where any project is forbidden and identify those projects that must acquire ECC before
operating that outlines the impact of a proposed project on its surrounding environment.
The main objective of this law is to maintain a rational and orderly balance between the environment and the country's
socioeconomic development.
It aims to protect the environment despite the increasing demand for natural resources and development to attain
sustainability.
 THE PD 1586 CONSISTS OF
12 SECTIONS
1. POLICY

2. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT SYSTEM

3. DETERMINATION OF LEAD AGENCY
4. PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION OF
ENVIRONMENTALLY CRITICAL AREAS (ECA) AND
PROJECTS (ECP)
5. ENVIRONMENTALLY NON CRITICAL PROJECTS
6. SECRETARIAT
7. MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
8. RULES AND REGULATIONS
9. PENALTY AND VIOLATION
10. ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLVING FUND
11. REPEALING CLAUSE
12. EFFECTIVE CLAUSE
 MOST IMPORTANT
SECTION OF THE ACT

SECTION 4
Presidential Proclamation of Environmentally Critical Areas and Projects
No person, partnership or corporation shall undertake or operate any
such declared Environmental Critical Projects (ECP) and Areas (ECA)
without first securing an Environmentally Compliance Certificate (ECC)
issued by the president or his duly authorized representative.
ENVIRONMENTALLY CRITICAL
PROJECTS (ECP)

INCLUDES:

HEAVY INDUSTRIES

RESOURCE EXTRACTED
INDUSTRIES

INFRASTRUCTURE
INDUSTRY
GOLF COURSE
PROJECT
ENVIRONMENTALLY CRITICAL
AREAS (ECA)

INCLUDES:
PARKS, WATERSHED RESERVES,
WILDLIFE RESERVES, AND
SANCTUARY

POTENTIAL TOURIST SPOTS

HABITAT OF ANY ENDANGERED OR

THREATENED SPECIES OF
INDIGENOUS PHILIPPINE WILDLIFE

AREAS OF UNIQUE HISTORICAL,

ARCHEOLOGICAL, GEOLOGICAL OR
ANY SCIENTIFIC INTEREST
 PURPOSE OF THIS ACT
"To attain and maintain a rational and
onferly balance between economic growth
and environmental protection".

This policy is achieved through the

sustainable use, management, renewal and
conservation of the country's natural
resources including the protection and
enhancement for the use of the present
and future generations .
EXAMPLE: BORACAY ISLAND

Boracay had become one of the most visited tropical islands

in Asia. Nevertheless, rampant tourism growth, dating back to
the 1970s, resulted in unplanned infrastructural and tourism
management practices. Until the 1990s, the island’s visitors
tended to be individual backpackers. The economic benefits
they generated led, however, to increasingly intensive tourism
dynamics (e.g., hotels and restaurants were built) but also
growing quality-of-life aspirations from residents.

In addition to the intensification of tourism activities and

poorly planned environmental infrastructure, the negative
socioeconomic impacts on the indigenous population
contributed to Boracay becoming both uncontrolled and
uncontrollable. Pollution, partly due to the lack of a proper
sewage system, became a major issue on the island.
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