March-May 2008

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2 more bills eye Kalayaan as ‘regime of islands’ (1 May 2008)

• Sen. Rodolfo Biazon’s baseline bill
• Rep. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s baseline bill

Santiago to freeze baseline bills (24 April 2008)

• Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago’s letter to Speaker Prospero Nograles
• Senate Bill 2181 (Sen. Edgardo Angara’s baseline bill)
• Proposed Joint Resolution 9 (Creating a Congressional Commission on National Territory)
  

House defers action on baseline bill (22 April 2008)

• Rep. Antonio Cuenco’s privilege speech

Farmers demand distribution of Iggy land, camp out at DAR (18 April 2008)

• DAR memo on moratorium on land conversion

Iggy Arroyo to use biofuels law to evade CARP? (7 April 2008) / Ethical lapses mark passage of biofuels law (8 April 2008)

• Republic Act 9367 (Biofuels Act of 2006)
• Republic Act 9367 implementing rules and regulations
• Rep. Ignacio Arroyo land titles
• Rep. Ignacio Arroyo statements of assets and liabilities
• Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri and family land titles
• Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri statements of assets and liabilities
• Former Rep. Herminio Teves statements of assets and liabilities
• SEC papers of Confederation of Sugar Producers Association

Trillanes fears more skirmishes in Spratlys (5 April 2008)

• Sen. Antonio Trillanes’ position paper on the baseline issue

Arroyo neglect, government infighting jeopardize RP territorial claim (24 March 2008) / RP in last-minute scramble to beat UN deadline (25 March 2008)

• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• ASEAN declaration on the South China Sea
• Executive Order 612 (Creation of the Commission on Maritime and Ocean Affairs)
• Treaty of Paris
• Republic Act 3046 (An act to define the baselines of the territorial sea of the Philippines)
• Republic Act 5446 (An act to amend Section 1 of R.A. 3046)
• Philippine declaration on UNCLOS
• Presidential Decree 1596 (Declaring Kalayaan Island Group to be part of Philippine territory)
• Presidential Decree 1599 (Establishing an exclusive economic zone)
• House Bill 3216 (Rep. Antonio Cuenco’s baseline bill)
• Senate Bill 1467 (Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV’s baseline bill)
• Comparison of baseline options

Six RP-occupied islands covered in controversial Spratlys deals (10 March 2008)

• Philippine-China agreement on a Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking in the South China Sea
  
• Philippine-China-Vietnam agreement on a Joint Marine Scientific Research Undertaking in the South China (Part 1, Part 2)
• Annex to the RP-China and RP-China-Vietnam agreement