RULES

1 Administrative Matter Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases (Effective April 29, 2010)
No. 09-6-8-SC
ACT
2 Act No. 3572 An Act to Prohibit Cutting of Tindalo, Akle, or Molave Trees under certain conditions, and to Penalize Violations Thereof (Approved on December
26, 1929)
PRESIDENTIAL DECREES
3 P.D. NO. 705 Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines (Approved on May 19, 1975)
4 P.D. NO. 856 Code on Sanitation of the Philippines (Approved on December 23, 1975)
5 P.D. NO. 979 Marine Pollution Decree of 1976 (Approved on AUgust 18, 1976)
6 P.D. NO. 1067 Water Code of the Philippines (Approved on December 31, 1976)
7 P.D. NO. 1151 Philippine Environmental Policy of 1977 (Approved on June 6, 1977)
8 P.D. NO. 1433 Plant Quarantine Decree of 1978 (Approved in June 10, 1978)
9 P.D. NO. 1586 Establishing an Environmental Impact Statement System, Including Other Environmental Management Related Measures and for Other Purposes
(Approved on June 11, 1978)
LAWS
10 RA NO. 3571 An Act to Prohibit the Cutting, Destroying or Injuring of Planted or Growing Trees, Flowering Plants and Shrubs or Plants of Scenic Value along
Public Roads, in Plazas, Parks, School Premises or in any Other Public Ground (Approved on June 21, 1963)
11 RA NO. 4850 Laguna Lake Development Authority Act (Approved on July 18, 1966)
12 RA NO. 6969 Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990 (Approved on October 26, 1990)
13 RA NO. 7076 People’s Small-Scale Mining Act of 1991 (Approved on June 27, 1991)
14 RA NO. 7611 Strategic Environmental Plan for Palawan Act (Approved on June 19, 1992)
15 RA NO. 7586 National Integrated Protected Areas System Act including all laws, decrees, orders, proclamations and issuances establishing protected areas
(Approved on June 1, 1992)
16 RA NO. 7942 Philippine Mining Act (Approved on March 3, 1995)
17 RA NO. 8371 Indigenous Peoples Right Act (IPRA) of 1997 (Approved on October 29, 1997)
18 RA NO. 8550 Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 (Approved on February 25, 1998)
19 RA NO. 8749 Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 (Approved on June 23, 1999)
20 RA NO. 9003 Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (Approved on January 26, 2001)
21 RA NO. 9072 National Caves and CAve Resource Management and Protection Act (Approved on April 8, 2001)
22 RA NO. 9106 Sagay Marine Reserve Law (Approved on April 14, 2001)
23 RA NO. 9125 Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park Act of 2001 (Approved on April 22, 2001)
24 RA NO. 9147 Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act (Approved on July 30, 2001)
25 RA NO. 9154 Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park Act of 2001 (Approved on August 11, 2001)
26 RA NO. 9176 An Act Establishing the Period Until December 31, 2020 for the Filing of Applications for Administrative Legalization (Free Patent) and Judicial
Confirmation of Imperfect and Incomplete Titles to Alienable and Disposable Lands of the Public DOmain, amending for this purpose CA 141, The
Public Land Act (Approved on November 7, 2002)
27 RA NO. 9175 Chainsaw Act of 2002 (Approved on November 7, 2004)
28 RA NO. 9237 Mt. Apo Protected Area Act of 2003 (Approved on February 3, 2004)
29 RA NO. 9275 Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 (Approved on March 22, 2004)
30 RA NO. 9303 Mt. Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary Act of 2004 (Approved on July 30, 2004)
31 RA NO. 9304 Mt. Malindang Range Natural Park of 2004 (Approved on July 30, 2004)
32 RA NO. 9483 Oil Pollution COmpensation Act of 2007 (Approved on June 2, 2007)
33 RA NO. 9486 Central Cebu Protected Landscape Act (Approved on June 7, 2007)
34 RA NO. 9494 The Mimbilisan Protected Landscape Act (Approved on August 22, 2007)
35 RA NO. 9512 National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008 (Approved on August 22, 2007)
36 RA NO. 9729 Climate Change Act of 2009 (Approved on October 23, 2009)
37 RA NO. 9741 An Act Imposing a Logging BAn in the 3rd District of the Province of Negros Occidental (Approved on November 3, 2009)
38 RA NO. 9772 An Act Imposing a Logging Ban in the Province of Southern Leyte (Approved on November 13, 2009)
39 RA NO. 9487 Mt. Banahaw-San Cristobal Protected Landscape Act of 2009 (Approved on December 11, 2009)
40 RA NO. 10023 An Act Authorizing the Issuance of Free Patents to Residential Lands (Approved on March 8, 2010)
41 RA NO. 10067 Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park Act of 2009 (Approve on April 6, 2010)
42 RA NO. 10176 Act Act reviving the observance of Arbor Day by authorizing the LGUs the responsibilities fo celebrating the day for tree planting as an annual event
(Approved on September 12, 2012)
43 CA NO. 141 The Public Land Act (Approved on November 7, 1936)
44 RA NO. 6657 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988 (Approved on June 10, 1988)
45 RA NO. 7160 An Act Providing a Local Government Code of 1991 (Approved on October 10, 1991)
46 RA NO. 7161 Tax LAws Incorporated in the Revised Forestry Code and Other Environmental Laws (amending NIRC) (Approved on October 10, 1991)