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Monitoring of Local Price Monitoring Councils

The Regional Director received a text message dated october 10, 2023 wherein the Office of the President together with partner Private Sector are requesting for details of existing orphanages or its equivalent that is Private or NGO-run in the LGU (not DSWD run, not DSWD accredited, and not LGU managed).

Role of All Provincial Governors and City/Municipal Mayors : 

• Mobilize and remind their respective Local Price Coordinating Councils (LPCCs) to implement R.A. No. 7581 by enjoining traders, wholesalers, and retailers to adjust their prices accordingly and undertake necessary information dissemination activities through various media platforms and display of price ceilings in public markets and the like;

• If applicable, coordinate with the Sanggunian regarding the enactment of an ordinance to ensure that the prices of necessities and prime commodities has an average or prevailing prices; and 

• Remind deputized barangay officials and NGOs to monitor abnormal price increases within their respective localities.

Local Price Coordinating Councils shall : 

• Coordinate with sectors and industries regarding programs by the national government intended to stabilize prices and supply;

• Conduct in-depth analysis on causes for price fluctuations;

• Recommend actions or steps to correct unwarranted price increases and supply shortages;

• Ensure that the trade offered for sale at retail should be publicly displayed by appropriate tags or labels indicating the price of such articles and such articles to be sold uniformly and without discrimination on the stated price, pursuant to R.A. No. 71; and

• Seek technical assistance from national government projects or programs related to local enterprises to mitigate the problem, particularly on the informal local enterprises in their locality

Updates

• Updates on Local Price Monitoring Councils

Legal Bases / References

• Advisory 2023.12.04 Reactivation of Local Price Coordinating Councils in View of the Holiday Season

• Unnumbered Memo 2023.11.15 Request for Submission of Updated List of Activated Reactivated Local Price Coordinating Councils

• MC 2023 - 002 Reiteration of the Implementation of RA 7851, As Amended and the Responsibility of LPCC Under DILG 2018 - 128 to Control the Prices of Basic Necessities in Areas with Foreign and Local Tourists 

• Advisory 2018.09.26 Request for Compliance Report on the Reactivation of Local Price Coordinating Councils

• MC 2018 - 128 Reactivation of Local Price Coordinating Councils