Section 10January 24, 1991, Sec./Art. 10

Rationalization of Existing Small and Medium Enterprise Programs and Agencies. — The Small and Medium Enterprise Development Council shall within one hundred eighty (180) days from its establishment, recommend to the President, measure/s to rationalize and integrate under a unified Institutional frameworks all government programs for the promotion and development of small and medium enterprises.

The President is hereby also empowered to establish a small and medium enterprise promotion body which shall be the principal government agency that will formulate, implement, coordinate and monitor all non-financing government programs, including fee-based services, to support and promote micro, small and medium enterprises. It shall be attached to the Department of Trade and Industry and shall be under the policy, program and administrative supervision of the SMED Council. The said offices shall receive no less than fifty percent (50%) of the assets, and budgetary allocations of the agencies for promotion, development and financing of small and medium enterprises that may be henceforth dissolved and/or abolished and absorbed, incorporated and integrated into the SMED Council.