PEZA Director General Charito Plaza(file photo) MANILA - Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) Director General Charito Plaza has offered another way for the Bulacan Airport City project to be declared as special economic zone after President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. vetoed House Bill 7575 creating the Bulacan Airport City Special Economic and Freeport Zone Authority (BACSEFZA). In a statement Monday, Plaza said instead of creating another investment promotion agency (IPA) through the proposed BACSEFZA, the airport project in Bulacan could be registered with PEZA as a new special economic zone. "To think that the BACSEFZA is a private-led development of (a) new ecozone, it is but appropriate to register it with PEZA instead of having it legislated to be a new investment promotion agency. Through this, (the) government is spared of responsibility to provide (an) annual budget to legislated independent economic zones and to create multiple IPAs with overlapping
THE Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said on Monday it supports the veto of House Bill (HB) 7575 creating the Bulacan Airport City Special Economic Zone. “It is a wise decision of President BBM, because while there are two ways of declaring ecozones, first by legislation, the second one by way…
Settle PEZA fees with Maya Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) registered firms can now conveniently settle their fees online using the all-in-one money app Maya via the MYEG Payment Gateway. The initiative is part of PEZA's thrust to promote digital transactions and ease of doing busine
PEZA Director General Charito Plaza(file photo) MANILA - The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources have identified at least seven new locations in Mindanao as viable lands for economic zone development. In a statement Thursday, PEZA said these lands viable for agro-industrial, agro-forestry, mineral processing, and eco-tourism are located in the Caraga Region. It said four of the proposed special economic zones will be located in Agusan del Norte, and one each in Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Norte, and Surigao del Sur. "We aim to restore back the once major industry of wood and put order in the utilization of the raw minerals processed into many other products in Caraga, which has the biggest timber and mining lands," PEZA Director General Charito Plaza said. The PEZA currently has 23 agro-industrial zones across the country. These newly identified lands for development are offshoot of the memorandum of understanding
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