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A HOUSE panel approved Thursday consolidated legislation that will set up programs to develop the creative industries.
At a hearing, the Special Committee on Creative Industry and Performing Arts approved the committee report on the substitute bill consolidating House Bills (HB) 4692, 6476 and 8101.
In 2019 the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) laid out a goal to make the Philippines the leading creative economy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by 2030. The Creative Economy Council of the Philippines also created a road map to guide the creative sector to boost its contribution to the economy.
âWithout the fundamental legislative reform that rationalizes government support to the creative industry, there is little to no chance that the road map as charted by the DTI and the Council could succeed,â the panelâs chairman, Representative Christopher V.P. de Venecia, said in his explanatory note for HB 8101.
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CREATIVE industry groups are requesting broader representation in the council proposed under a measure being considered by the Senate which will develop the sector.
The Trade, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship committee on Monday conducted a hearing on Senate Bill No. 411 filed by Senator Maria Imelda Josefa R. Marcos in July 2019, which is calling for a charter to develop and promote the creative industries.
The bill proposes a five-person Creative Industry Development Council to be appointed by the President.
Creative Economy Council of the Philippines President Paolo Mercado said at the hearing that that the bill should be aligned with a substitute bill being considered in the House of Representatives, which proposes a council of 17 people members.
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