NEDA Board approves e-vehicle EO, PPP rules

2022 Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Build-Operate-Transfer Law, also include an updated list of documentary requirements for solicited and unsolicited PPP proposals.

Also approved on Thursday were one new official development assistance-funded project and changes to five ongoing projects.

These were identified as: – The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources’ Philippine Fisheries and Coastal Resiliency project costing P11.42 billion to improve the management of fishery resources and enhance production values in select fisheries management areas;

– A request by the Department of Transportation (DoTr) for utilization of savings, change in scope and loan validity extension for the Maritime Safety Capability Improvement Project Phase I;

– Another DoTr request for 19-month loan validity extension for the New Communications, Navigation, Surveillance/ Air Traffic Management systems development project;

– A Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) request for a 12-month extension of the implementation period and loan validity of the Samar Pacific Coastal Road Project;

– A DPWH request for change in scope of works, increase in cost and reallocation of the contingency cost to civil works category for Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Measures in Low-Lying Areas of Pampanga Bay project; and

– A request for change in scope of the Philippine Competition Commission’s Capacity Building to Foster Competition Project.