By
Jocelyn P. Alvarez
The campaign aims to create and capacitate pool of government communicators including media practitioners that would serve as agents of information dissemination of the benefits of DOI implementation.
More than a hundred participants are expected to attend and actively participate in this information drive.
The whole day advocacy campaign will focus and tackle subjects and issues pertaining to Liquefied Petroleum Products (LPP) and the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), laws, rules and regulations among others in consonance with the administration’s drive in “ensuring a competitive market under a regime of fair prices, adequate and continuous supply of environmentally-clean and high quality petroleum products.”
The activity also seeks to discuss the salient provisions of RA 8479 otherwise known as the “Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998.”
RA
8479 provides that it shall be the policy of the state to liberalize and
deregulate the downstream oil industry in order to ensure a truly competitive
market and that the State shall promote and encourage the entry of new
participants in the downstream oil industry, and introduce adequate measures to
ensure the attainment of these goals.
The whole day activity is divided into two sessions. The morning session is a briefing on Downstream Oil Industry with government information officers and media practitioners while the afternoon session centers on LPP and LPG Rules with local chief executives, licensing officers, city/municipal treasurer, Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) heads and others. Specifically the discussions will focus on LPG Regulatory Framework /Auto LPG, LPP retail rules, basic principle on metrology, basic principle in calibration and sealing of mechanical pump
After
the briefing, the DOE will troop down to the nearest gasoline station for the
conduct of hands-on calibration of dispensing pumps in a gas station. (PIA9).