To ensure effective monitoring and enforcement in the use of mineral resources, the provincial government will conduct a one-day assessment of the deputized monitoring committee members of Negros Occidental municipalities and cities today, at the Governor’s Conference Hall, Provincial Capitol Building, Bacolod City, a Provincial Environment and Management Office press release said.

The move will assure the effective and proactive monitoring and enforcement all throughout the province by the Task Force Balas Bato and the City/Municipal and Barangay Monitoring Committees, the press release said.

The assessment aims to identify issues and concerns on the use of mineral resources and finally recommend measures and strategies to address them.

The basic legal framework and regulations on the exploitation, utilization and disposition of minerals will also be tackled.

A skills training will be done for participants for them to create compliance monitoring and enforcement functions, the press release said.

Resource persons will be lawyers Wilmon Peñalosa and Jona Villanueva Rubica from the Provincial Legal Office.

They will talk about Legal Framework and Penal Provision of Tax Ordinance and Conducting Administrative Hearings for City/Municipal Monitoring Committees, respectively.

Eriberto Madalag of the PEMO will tackle Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Procedures, the press release said.

Participants are expected to come from the 54 organized Barangay and 24 deputized City/Municipal Monitoring Committee members, it added.*

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