National Food Authority

Central Office 09:52 AM, Nov 15, 2018

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Central Office 10:04 AM, Nov 15, 2018

November 15, 2018

Dear Ms. Martinez
Good day ms. bianca!

We acknowledged receipt of your request thru our FOI mechanism. As to your request for documents as indicated in your request :

1. Official documents on the mechanisms for the allocation of MAV, you may find the needed info (both for MAV and NFA rice importation) as published in our official website nfa.gov.ph under the rice importation section and import arrivals. The SPS measures are also indicated in the Terms of Reference (TOR).

2. As to the list of institutions/corporations with import licenses for rice from 1995 to present - we shall refer this to concerned office and send the needed data as soon as it is available.

3. As to the minutes of NFA COuncil, we could not provide you with the said copies since these are not for public disclosure. You may be referring to the Inter-agency Food Security Council which recommends for the rice importation, however, we do not have a copy of such minutes because we are just a member of the said inter-agency committee.

4. Agency level reports - we shall refer this to our concerned office and send you the documents as soon as it is available.

5. As to the list of markets where the weevil-infested rice have been distributed, these are the markets within regions 3 and 5 only because these are already allocated to them.

 Thank you

Ms.Cynthia Suarez
NFA-CO FOI Receiving Officer

FDM 03:42 PM, Nov 15, 2018

November 15, 2018

Dear NFA Receiving Officer Central Office,

Greetings!

Thank you for your request dated Nov 15, 2018 09:52:55 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.

Your Request

You asked for Rice Importation.

Response to Request

Your FOI request is approved. I am enclosing a copy of  the ff. information you requested :

1. CSQ Importation guidelines
2. 2 NFA News Releases pertaining to the subject infested rice shipments
3. Agency Report on the weevil infested rice

We have also clarified some issues sent thru your email address dated today, November 15, 2018.

Your right to request a review

If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to NFA OIC Administrator Tomas Escarez, 6th flr. SRA Bldg, North Ave. Diliman, Q.C. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.

If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Asst. Administrator Yolanda C. Nieves
NFA-CO FOI Decision Maker

Attachments:
 Doc.5-OAAMO-2K18-10-002.pdf