PSC Takeover from POC
The proposed bill would place the NSAs under the control of the PSC. Under the present setup, NSAs are independent although subject to the supervisory and visitorial powers of the PSC.
What’s your insight? Do you think it would be better that NSAs be under the control of PSC?
After an embarrassing 24 Golds at the SEA Games, the lowest % and the second lowest number equal we have won in the countries 40 year participation in SEA Games. what have we got to lose?
POC scrutinizes Pacquiao bill amending PSC law
“The right to autonomy and self-governance and its close relation with the POC as guaranteed by RA 6847 may be lost depending on the rules and regulations formulated by the PSC (under the proposed law),”
the POC board led by POC president Jose Cojuangco Jr. noted in its recent review of Senate Bill 1515 introduced by Pacquiao.
The POC board pointed out that the Pacquiao’s proposed legislation has completely repealed a provision in Section 13 of RA 6847 defining the meaning of National Sports Association.
In the bill’s proposed amendment, the section would read as “National Sports Associations organised for their respective sports in the Phl and affiliated with their respective international federations may be recognized as such by the commission.”
Removed in the planned amendment is the provision that “The national sports association recognized by the Commission shall be autonomous and shall have exclusive technical control over the promotion and development of the particular sport for which they are organized, subject however to the supervisory and visitorial powers of the Commission, as provided in Section 11, paragraph (j) hereof.”
The board also pointed out that under Section 19 covering tax exemptions on gear and sports equipment that “the exemption on taxes and duties on the importation of (the) POC and NSAs is taken away” and that the provision on “(the) donors’ tax to the POC and NSAs has been repealed.”
POC secretary general Steve Hontiveros, who attended the POC board’s review of the bill, warned that in the event that the proposed legislation is passed
“we (the POC) might find ourselves suspended by the International Olympic Committee because of government intervention.”
On the other hand, a source who declined to be identified said that Pacquiao’s bill could be met with a lukewarm response in the House of Representatives.
“It won’t fly in Congress,” the source said, adding that “he (Pacquiao) was never part of the PSC or POC. He is a pro athlete who fought for money and country… unlike many (athletes) who fought for country and no money.”
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