Philippine energy law

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Philippine energy law is a Philippine law that concerns energy, both fossil fuels and renewable energy. As one of the fastest-growing nations in Asia, with over 80 million residents, energy law in the Philippines is important.

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Researching Philippine law is somewhat complicated; all laws are numbered sequentially, not by topic or year, and consist of statutes, presidential decrees, other regulations, and case law. Nonetheless, private entities have organized the law into readily accessible formats. [1]

Utility laws

The earliest Philippine energy law dates from 1903 during the American Commonwealth, Act No. 667, which concerns franchises for utilities, [1] [2] and Act No. 1022, which allowed such to have mortgages. [3] A uniform law in 1929 established a model act for establishing new utilities. [1] [4]

Fossil fuel laws

The first coal mining law, Act No. 2719, known as the Coal Land Act, dates back to 1917. [1] [5]

Oil exploration was allowed by Act No. 2932 of 1920. [1] [6]

An older law, Act. No. 4243, was repealed by The Mining Act, Commonwealth Act No. 137 in 1936, [7] as amended several times by acts and decrees. [1] [8]

Renewable energy laws

The first hydroelectric power law dates from 1933, Act No. 4062. [1] [9] Commonwealth Act No. 120 of 1936 created the National Power Corporation, [10] and was amended several times through 1967. [1] [11]

A subsequent law, Republic Act 9513, known as the Renewable Energy Law, which encourages the development and use of non-traditional energy sources, has since come into being. [12]

See also

Further reading

Paul Cook, Leading Issues in Competition, Regulation, and Development, The energy industry in the Philippines, p. 383

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Art Abernales' website Energy law page Archived 2010-05-15 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  2. ↑ Art Abernales' website Act 667 page Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  3. ↑ Art Abernales' website Act 1022 page Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  4. ↑ Act No. 3636 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , as amended by Commonwealth Act 132 of 1936 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  5. ↑ Art Abernales' website Act No. 2719 page Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , as amended by Act No. 3516 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine and Republic Act 740 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  6. ↑ Act No. 2932 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  7. ↑ Commonwealth Act No. 137 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  8. ↑ See Republic Act No. 225 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Republic Act No. 746 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Republic Act No. 4388 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Presidential Decree No. 99-a Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Presidential Decree No. 295 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Presidential Decree No. 463 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Presidential Decree No. 1383 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , and Presidential Decree No. 1677 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Some of the decrees by Ferdinand Marcos allowed "exploitation" of resources to unsustainable levels, strip mining and/or deforestation. Accessed November 16, 2009.
  9. ↑ Act No. 4062. Accessed November 16, 2009.
  10. ↑ Commonwealth Act No. 120 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  11. ↑ See Republic Act No. 358 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Republic Act No. 1397 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Republic Act No. 2058 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , Republic Act No. 2641 Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine , Republic Act No. 3043 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine , and Republic Act No. 4897 Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed November 16, 2009.
  12. ↑ Asia Pacific Tax Notes, p. 52, found at PriceWaterhouseCoopers China website [ permanent dead link ]. Accessed November 16, 2009.
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