Executive Order No. 93

Also known as: EO 93 s. 1947 — the series-qualified citation that fixes the order's identity · The Government Enterprises Council order — the styling from its principal creation · The 1947 government-corporations reorganization order · The NARIC-independence order — the lineage styling in the food-agency chain this wiki's Republic Act No. 663 entry documents

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Definition

Executive Order No. 93 is the Roxas administration’s government-corporations reorganization order — issued at Manila on October 4, 1947, “By virtue of the powers vested in me by Republic Act Numbered Fifty-one,” and titled: “ABOLISHING THE NATIONAL ENTERPRISES CONTROL BOARD, CREATING THE GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES COUNCIL, TRANSFERRING THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION SERVICE TO THE MANILA RAILROAD COMPANY, DISSOLVING AND MERGING CERTAIN CORPORATIONS OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.” (LawPhil — EO 93) Its identity matters as much as its content: orders numbered 93 appear in more than one series and administration, and the order documented here is the 1947 Roxas order — the instrument this wiki’s Republic Act No. 663 entry cites when it records that “EO 93 of 1947 cut it loose from the NDC,” verified against the order’s own Section 6: “The National Rice and Corn Corporation shall cease to be a subsidiary of the National Development Company,” with the NDC’s “rights, titles, and interests” transferred “to the said National Rice and Corn Corporation at book and/or par value.” (LawPhil — EO 93, LawPhil — RA 663)

The order did its work in one instrument. Sections 1–3 abolished the National Enterprises Control Board and created the Government Enterprises Council — chaired by the President, “to advise the President in the exercise of his power of supervision and control over corporations owned or controlled by the Government” — with a Control Committee to “supervise, for and under the direction of the President, all the corporations owned or controlled by the Government”; Section 4 required each government corporation to have a single head appointed with presidential approval. (LawPhil — EO 93) Sections 6 through 17 then operated on the corporate estate: NARIC out of the NDC (Sec. 6); the Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Corporation converted into an NDC department (Sec. 7); the National Cooperatives Administration converted into the National Cooperatives and Small Business Corporation (Sec. 8); the Metropolitan Transportation Service to the Manila Railroad Company effective January 1, 1948 (Secs. 9–13); the housing bodies merged into the People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation (Sec. 14); the GSIS placed under the Council and given the Property Insurance Law (Secs. 15–16); and three corporations — the National Produce Exchange, National Warehousing Corporation, and National Footwear Corporation — dissolved (Sec. 17). (LawPhil — EO 93) NARIC’s independence lasted three years: EO No. 350 (October 3, 1950) dissolved it into the Price Stabilization Corporation, until RA No. 663 (June 16, 1951) re-created it by statute. (LawPhil — EO 350, LawPhil — RA 663)

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Wiktionary	subsidiary (noun — “A company owned by a parent company or a holding company”; the corporate relation Section 6 terminated between NARIC and the NDC)
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Google Scholar	Executive Order No. 93 October 4 1947 Roxas Government Enterprises Council National Enterprises Control Board NARIC National Development Company subsidiary RA 51 government corporations reorganization PRISCO EO 350 RA 663 METRAN Manila Railroad
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Also Known As

EO 93 s. 1947 — the series-qualified citation that fixes the order’s identity
The Government Enterprises Council order — the styling from its principal creation
The 1947 government-corporations reorganization order
The NARIC-independence order — the lineage styling in the food-agency chain this wiki’s Republic Act No. 663 entry documents

Examples and Analogies

A corporate surgeon’s round: the order moved through the government’s portfolio in seventeen sections — one corporation detached, one absorbed, two converted, one transferred, two merged, three dissolved — the postwar state trimming the corporation sprawl the rehabilitation years had produced. (LawPhil — EO 93)
A parent company’s divestment by decree: Section 6 did in one clause what a board would negotiate for months — the NDC’s holdings in its own subsidiary transferred “at book and/or par value,” the child corporation walking away fully owned. (LawPhil — EO 93)
Verified statutory data:
Issuance: October 4, 1947, City of Manila; signed “(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS, President of the Philippines,” “By the President: (Sgd.) N. ROXAS, Acting Chief of the Executive Office”; authority — Republic Act No. 51 (LawPhil — EO 93)
NARIC (Sec. 6): “shall cease to be a subsidiary of the National Development Company”; NDC interests transferred at “book and/or par value” (LawPhil — EO 93)
Consolidations (Secs. 9–14): METRAN to the Manila Railroad Company effective January 1, 1948, board and revolving fund abolished; National Housing Commission and People’s Homesite Corporation merged into the People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation (LawPhil — EO 93)
Dissolutions (Sec. 17): National Produce Exchange, National Warehousing Corporation, National Footwear Corporation (LawPhil — EO 93)
Fates forward: EO 350 (October 3, 1950) dissolved NARIC into PRISCO; RA 663 (June 16, 1951) re-created it, its Section 10 dissolving “the present National Rice and Corn Corporation as merged with the PRISCO by Executive Order No. 350” (LawPhil — EO 350, LawPhil — RA 663)

Usage Scenarios

1. Tracing NARIC’s Corporate Independence

The grains corporation had been “created as a subsidiary” of the National Development Company in 1936 under the charter Commonwealth Act No. 182 built; Section 6 made it a corporation on its own from 1947 — the record this wiki’s Republic Act No. 663 entry strings into the lineage ending at the National Food Authority. (LawPhil — EO 93, LawPhil — CA 182, LawPhil — RA 663)

2. Studying Postwar GOCC Governance

The order is a primary document of the first generation of Philippine government-corporation supervision — the Council, the Control Committee, the one-head rule of Section 4, the interlock bar of Section 5 — machinery later regimes rebuilt. (LawPhil — EO 93)

3. Following the Transport and Housing Consolidations

Sections 9–13 folded the Metropolitan Transportation Service into the Manila Railroad Company from January 1, 1948, and Section 14 merged the housing bodies into the People’s Homesite and Housing Corporation — lines researchers meet later under their consolidated names. (LawPhil — EO 93)

4. Citing the Order Correctly

Because more than one order bears the number 93, citations should carry the series and date — “Executive Order No. 93 (October 4, 1947)” — and, for the NARIC point, the section: Section 6, whose text matches the detachment recorded in this wiki’s rice-cluster entries. (LawPhil — EO 93, LawPhil — RA 663)

Strategies

Operate on the portfolio by order: under the RA 51 grant, the President reorganized, merged, and dissolved corporations wholesale — one instrument, one signature, the corporate map redrawn. (LawPhil — EO 93)
Detach the operating company from the holding company: Section 6’s divestment freed NARIC from NDC control years before Congress settled the grains question by statute — the executive acting first in a contest the legislature would finish. (LawPhil — EO 93, LawPhil — RA 663)
Transfer the estate, never strand it: every merger, conversion, and dissolution moves property, assets, liabilities, and personnel to a successor — the dissolve-forward economy the NDC’s own 1936 charter had used. (LawPhil — EO 93, LawPhil — CA 182)
Put one accountable head on each corporation: Section 4’s president-or-general-manager rule answered the diffuse boards of the rehabilitation era with single-point accountability. (LawPhil — EO 93)

Security and Safety Measures

Valuation discipline on transfer: the NDC’s interests left at “book and/or par value” — a stated basis, not a negotiated price, protecting the public estate from sweetheart pricing. (LawPhil — EO 93)
Presidential approval of corporation heads: Section 4 made the chief officers of government corporations answerable to the President’s appointment — control of personnel as well as paper. (LawPhil — EO 93)
Layered supervision: Council advice, Control Committee supervision, and the Section 5 bar on multiple positions in the same corporation — three checks written into the order itself. (LawPhil — EO 93)
For researchers: RA 663’s own text never cites EO 93 — the 1947 detachment is documented by the order’s own Section 6 and this wiki’s corpus narrative, not by the 1951 statute; and the order is dated October 4, 1947, signed for the President by the Acting Chief of the Executive Office. (LawPhil — EO 93, LawPhil — RA 663)

Historical Context

The order belongs to the first independence-era reckoning with the corporate state. The National Development Company — rebuilt by Commonwealth Act No. 182 of November 13, 1936 as a ₱50-million public corporation with power to hold and vote the shares of other corporations — had assembled a stable of subsidiaries through the Commonwealth and war years, NARIC among them from 1936. (LawPhil — CA 182, LawPhil — RA 663) Roxas, armed with Republic Act No. 51, spent that authority on October 4, 1947: the Control Board abolished, the Council created, the portfolio thinned. (LawPhil — EO 93)

The NARIC clause began a decade of institutional see-saw — independence from the NDC (1947), dissolution into PRISCO under EO 350 (1950), revival by RA 663 (1951), final abolition into the Rice and Corn Administration (1962) — the chain this wiki’s Republic Act No. 663 entry documents instrument by instrument. The Council-and-Committee design had a short run, but the problem it addressed — how the Republic supervises the corporations it owns — is the standing question of the GOCC era. (LawPhil — EO 350, LawPhil — RA 663, LawPhil — EO 93)

Challenges and Controversies

Which Executive Order No. 93?

The number recurs across the executive series, so the bare citation “EO 93” is ambiguous until dated. The order documented here is fixed by three verified marks: issuance October 4, 1947 under RA 51; the Government Enterprises Council creation; and the Section 6 clause making NARIC “cease to be a subsidiary of the National Development Company” — the detachment the corpus’s rice-cluster entries cite. Any other EO 93 belongs to another series and another story. (LawPhil — EO 93, LawPhil — RA 663)

Order Versus Statute in the Grains Corporation’s Fate

The 1947–1951 sequence is a constitutional argument in institutional form: the President detached the corporation by order; the next President dissolved it by order; and Congress reversed both by statute within a year. EO 93 is the first move in that contest — executive reorganization answered, twice over, by legislation. (LawPhil — EO 93, LawPhil — EO 350, LawPhil — RA 663)

A Council Without Much Record

The Government Enterprises Council and Control Committee are documented almost entirely by the order that created them; their minutes, decisions, and staffing await reconstruction from primary records, so assessments of the 1947 supervision experiment should be dated to the order and not extended to its unrecorded administration. (LawPhil — EO 93)