Coding respite for PMSEA participants

PARTICIPANTS to ongoing 64th Mine Safety and Environment Conference at CAPJohn Hay Trade and Cultural Center in Baguio City will be exempted from the coverage of the city’s Number-Coding Ordinance.

Mayor Mauricio Domogan issued Administrative Order No. 178 series of 2017 suspending the implementation of the coding scheme for private vehicles of participants and their family members pursuant to the law’s provision granting exemption to conventions and similar events sanctioned by the city government.

The event which for many years has been held in the city is considered a primordial national undertaking and the coding respite is just the city’s way of thanking the participants for choosing the city as venue.

The coding break will also “provide members of the mining industry and other stakeholders, visitors and their families convenient and stress-free journey around the city to help boost the city’s identity as the prime tourist destination.”

The city council in Resolution No. 351 series of 2017 declared the 64th Annual National Mine Safety and Environment Conference Week in the city in honor of the event’s important roles of “showcasing best practices in the promotion of its advocacy in responsible mining or mineral resources development of the country.”

“This activity is an annual event held in the city of Baguio, boosting the city’s economy due to the influx of tourists” thus the need to dedicate the week to the prestigious event, the body said.

“The 64th annual national mine safety and environment conference again brings together advocates of responsible mining within and outside the mining communities where we operate. This includes not only the mining companies but also our regulators, suppliers, academe, services contractors and local government units and communities,” PMSEA president Louie Sarmiento said in a statement.

The theme for this year’s ANMSEC is “Responsible Mining… In the Hearts and Minds of Filipinos.”