June 30, 2004

MEMORANDUM FROM THE SECRETARY

TO                :     Municipal Agrarian Reform Officers
                           Provincial Agrarian Reform Officers
                           Regional Directors
                          All Heads of Legal Division of Regional Offices
                          Regional Centers for Land Use Policy Planning and Implementation
                          (RCLUPPI)
                          Center for Land Use Policy Planning and Implementation (CLUPPI)
                          Director, Bureau of Agrarian Legal Assistance
                          Undersecretary, Policy Planning and Legal Affairs Office
                          All Concerned

SUBJECT    :     Lifting of Moratorium on Conversion and Exemption Applications

Pursuant to item 1 of Memorandum Circular No. 8, Series of 2004 re: Clarificatory Guidelines on DAR Memorandum Circular No. 5, S. 2004 (Moratorium on the Processing and Grant of Application for Conversion and Exemption of All Lands Devoted to or Suitable for Agriculture), the moratorium on the grant or denial of applications for conversion and exemption is hereby lifted, effective today, June 30, 2004.   ECAaTS

For your guidance and appropriate action.

               (SGD.) JOSE MARI B. PONCE