Enforcement

of the
Philippine
Agricultural
Engineering
Standards on
Farm-to-
Market Roads
Policies Governing the Promulgation, Adoption and Enforcement of the --
PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING STANDARDS
R.A. No. 7934 R.A. No. R.A. No.
(Consumer 8559 7160
Act of the (Philippine (Local
Philippines) AE Law) Government
DA BOAE-PRC Code)
DILG/LGUs

Standards to Code of Technical Procurement and

ensure quality Standards to be used Regulation of
by AEs in the agricultural support
and safety of
practice of services and facilities
consumer such as agricultural
products related profession--
machinery, buildings
planning, designing
to agriculture and structures
and management of should conform to
such as
agricultural national standards
agricultural machinery, buildings (Sec.
machinery and and structures, etc . 17d, R.A. 7160)
equipment, etc. (Sec. 40, IRR,
(Article 7, RA R.A. 8559)
7934)
PHILIPPINE AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
DA Administrative Order
Nos. 10 (2002); 06 (2003); STANDARDS
BOAE Resolutions Nos.
05(2002; 01 (2003); 01
DILG Memorandum
Circular No. 2008-167
05 (2005); 07 (2006) , No. 9 (2005) ;02 (2006) and 01
(2009) and No. 4(2004); (2009); MC No. 2008-18
ENFORCEMENT POLICIES AND
GUIDELINES
1. BOAE Resolution No. 1, series of 2009
 PAES on Farm-to-Market Roads shall serve
as technical reference by all agricultural
engineers in the signing and sealing of
plans, design and specifications and other
related works in the practice of profession
 “ The practice of agricultural engineering shall
include the following: xxx

2) Management or supervision and the preparation of

engineering designs, plans, specifications, project
studies and estimates for:
• agricultural, aquaculture and fishery, and forest product
machinery,
• agricultural buildings and structures,
• farm electrification and energy systems,
• agricultural processing equipment,
• irrigation and soils conservation systems and facilities,
• agricultural waste utilization systems and facilities; xxx
3) Conducting research and development, training and
extension work, and consultancy services on
agricultural engineering facilities/services, system and
technologies
4) Testing, evaluation and inspection of agricultural,
fishery and forest product machinery and other related
Note : IRR of the AE Law agricultural engineering facilities and equipment;
includes farm-to-market
roads as part of agricultural
buildings and structures
Sec. 3(a2), R.A. No. 8559
The Seal of a Registered Agricultural
Engineer
The sides of the
octagon represents
the 8 functional
practice of
5 mm
agricultural
1) Planning and
engineering
designing such as :
2) Managing
42 mm
Registration No. 4 mm 3) Research and
development
4) Training and
Extension
5) Testing, evaluation,
inspection and
investigation
on
6) agricultural
Teaching
engineering
7) Consulting
facilities, services,
8) valuation
ENFORCEMENT POLICIES AND
GUIDELINES
1. BOAE Memo Circular 9, series of 2009
 All concerned Government Agecies ( DA,
DAR, DENR, DPWH, LGUs, ARMM), pursuant
to the policy mandates/directives of R.A.
No. 8559 shall comply the following:
a) To engage or assign licensed agricultural
engineer/s to perform the identification,
validation, inspection, monitoring, coordination
and preparation or evaluation of feasibility
studies, programs of works and cost estimates
of farm-to-market roads in their respective
offices
ENFORCEMENT POLICIES AND
GUIDELINES
2. BOAE Memo Circular 9, series of 2009
 All concerned Government Agecies ( DA,
DAR, DENR, DPWH, LGUs, ARMM), pursuant
to the policy mandates/directives of R.A.
No. 8559 shall comply the following:
b) To require the participating contractors in
public bidding of FMR projects to have PCAB
AE works license or have licensed agricultural
engineers as their Sustaining Technical
Employee who shall be responsible in the
supervision and inspection of FMR projects.
ENFORCEMENT POLICIES AND
GUIDELINES
3 . DA Administrative Order No. 28, s. 2009
 All DA Units shall enforce the PAES-FMR
as integral part in the planning, feasibility
studies, inspection, evaluation, procurement
and implementation of FMR projects.

 The PAES-FMR shall serve as technical

reference by all DA agricultural engineers in
the signing and sealing of plans, designs,
technical specifications and program of
works of farm-to-market roads.
ENFORCEMENT POLICIES AND
GUIDELINES
4 . DILG MC No. 2008-167
 Pursuant to Section 17(d) of R.A. No. 7160, the
design, plans, technical specifications and cost
estimates used in the procurement and/or
implementation of LGU’s programs and
projects on xxx farm-to-market roads shall be
signed and sealed by licensed and registered
agricultural engineer/s in accordance with the
BOAE Res. No. 07, series of 2003 and the
Philippine Agricultural Engineering
Standards;
4.5 Pursuant to Section 17(d) of R.A. No.
7160, the design, plans, technical
specifications and cost estimates used in
the procurement and/or implementation of
LGU’s programs and projects on
agricultural and fishery machinery,
buildings and structures, small water
impounding projects, post harvest
facilities, slaugtherhouses, poultry
dressing plants, farm-to-market
roads and other agricultural engineering
facilities and systems shall be signed and
sealed by licensed and registered
agricultural engineer/s in accordance with
the BOAE Res. No. 07, series of 2003 and
the Philippine Agricultural Engineering
Standards;
ENFORCEMENT POLICIES AND
GUIDELINES
5 . Commission on Audit
 COA Memorandum No. 2004-2006 to all its
Operating Units put into action COA’s role
under implementation of AE Law which is to---
help enforce BOAE Res. No. 7, series of 2007 (signing
and sealing of plans and designs by AEs) as part of
the auditing of government projects on shallow tube
wells, small water impounding projects, other
irrigation projects, agricultural and fishery
mechanization, post harvest facilities, agricultural
and fishery infrastructure and other agricultural
engineering projects
 Towards the Effective Enforcement of
PAES
Putting in place the Compliance Monitoring Structure
that works!

PRC- BOAE DILG DA through COA

NAFC

Directives to
BOAE-PSAE MOADirectives to all DILG AFMeC
Field Offices
all COA
and Local Operating
AFCs Units

AE Law LGU DA-wide Government-

Compliance Compliance Compliance wide
by all on AE Law on AE Law Compliance
and PAES
sectors and PAES on AE Law
Note : Monitoring Systems shall be established at PRC and NAFC
and PAES
linked up with DILG, COA and other government agencies
Strengthening the PAES and AE
Law Enforcement through
aggressive public info campaign
via the
Philippine Agricultural Engineering Journal
and other media forms
SCOPE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
R.A. No. 8559
(AE Law)
Management or supervision and
the preparation of engineering
designs, plans, specifications,
project studies and estimates for
agricultural, aquaculture and
fishery, and forest product
machinery, agricultural buildings
and structures (including farm-to-
market roads) , farm
electrification and energy
systems, agricultural processing
equipment, irrigation and soils
conservation systems and
facilities, agricultural waste
utilization systems and
facilities;xxx (Sec.3(a2)
R.A. No. 544 as
amended by R.A. 1582
(CE Law)
Consultation, design,
preparation of plans,
specifications, estimates,
erection, installation and
supervision of the construction
of streets, bridges,
highwaysxxx, canals xxx;
buildings, fixed structures for
irrigation, flood protection,
drainage, water supply and
sewerage works (Sec. 2); also
include any building or structure
intended for public gathering or
assembly such as theaters,
cinematographs, stadia,
churches xxx (Sec. 23)