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Date: Oct. 22, 2021, 1:21 p.m.
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Date: 2021-11-04 12:27:50.000000
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Date: 2021-11-15 14:23:36.000000
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Published by Bureau of Internal Revenue(BIR) on Oct. 22, 2021.
Requested from BIR by K. Labordo at 01:21 PM on
Oct. 22, 2021.
Purpose: Review and Action Formulation
Date of Coverage: 12/16/2020 - 10/22/2021
Tracking no: #BIR-670162498181
Hi, I would like to request for a copy of the BIR National Selection Board (NSB) Resolution No. 2021-0001 and a copy of the Minutes of the Meeting of the same. The documents will be used to comprehensively review the decision made by the BIR National Selection Board in its deliberation last December 16, 2020. Thank you. Sincerely, Louise Philippe O. Dulay
Dear Mr. Dulay, Good day! This pertains to your request for a copy of the National Selection Board (NSB) Resolution No. 2021-0001 and the NSB Minutes of Meeting last Dec. 16, 2020. Relative thereto, please be informed that we endorsed the said matter to the Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Legal Service to seek legal opinion if this Office can provide your requested documents. Once, we received their response, we will update you immediately. Thank you very much.
November 11, 2021 Dear Louise Philippe Dulay, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Oct 22, 2021 01:21:11 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for Request for copy of National Selection Board Resolution No. 2021-0001. Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. I enclose is the file copy of National Selection Board Resolution No. 2021-0001 you requested. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Personnel Division FOI Receiving Officer
Hi, Thank you for the prompt response. However, I noticed that the file does not contain the copy of the Minutes of the Meeting that resulted in the promulgation of NSB Resolution 2021-0001. May I reiterate the request for a copy of the Minutes of the Meeting. Thank you very much. Sincerely, Louise Philippe Dulay
Good day Mr. Dulay! This pertains to your request for a copy of the Minutes of the Meeting that resulted in the promulgation of NSB Resolution 2021-0001. Please be informed that one of the Exceptions to the Right of Access of Information or Freedom of Information (FOI) is matter covered by the deliberative process privilege, to include "minutes of meetings, and deliberations comprising part of a process by which governmental decisions and policies are formulated." Thus, as it is clearly falling within the Inventory of Exceptions to FOI, a copy of the NSB Minutes of Meeting held last December 16, 2020 cannot be provided. Thank you.