Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City
TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 3226
Introduced by REP. EMILIO BERNARDINO L. YULO
EXPLANATORY NOTE
In today’s globalized economy, the quality of products and services is a decisive
factor for consumer trust, trade competitiveness, industrial growth, and sustainable
development. In the Philippines, while efforts toward improving quality infrastructure
have been made, they remain fragmented, inconsistent, and often lacking in alignment
with international standards. There is a clear and pressing need to institutionalize a
cohesive national framework that will unify and strengthen our quality-related policies
and institutions, thus enabling the country to fully participate in global trade, support
domestic industries, and protect consumer welfare.
The proposed measure seeks to address this longstanding institutional gap by
establishing a comprehensive National Quality Policy (NQP) and defining the structure
and function of a Philippine National Quality Infrastructure (NQI). The bill creates a
legal, regulatory, and institutional framework that integrates standardization, metrology,
conformity assessment, accreditation, and quality assurance systems into a single
coordinated
network
that
supports
both
public
governance
and
private
sector
competitiveness.
At the heart of the measure is the creation of the Philippine National Quality
Infrastructure Coordination Council (PNQICC), composed of key government agencies,
private sector representatives, the academe, and civil society stakeholders. This Council
shall oversee the development and implementation of the NQP, instill a culture of quality
in all levels of society, promote the harmonization of standards, and ensure the alignment
of the country’s practices with internationally recognized norms.
The measure also promotes mutual recognition arrangements and international
cooperation, positioning the Philippines to actively participate in regional and global
quality infrastructure initiatives. This will help improve the competitiveness of Filipino
industries, reduce technical barriers to trade, and support the country’s push for
industrialization and innovation.
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Ultimately, this bill aims to elevate the national culture of quality to ensure that
products and services made in the Philippines are safe, reliable, and competitive in both
domestic and global markets. It is a decisive step toward building a resilient economy,
protecting consumers, and empowering businesses to thrive in an increasingly standards-
driven world.
In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought.
REP. EMILIO BERNARDINO L. YULO


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City
TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 3226
Introduced by REP. EMILIO BERNARDINO L. YULO
AN ACT
TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL QUALITY POLICY DEFINING THE
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE (NQI) THEREOF,
CREATING FOR THIS PURPOSE, THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL QUALITY
INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATING COUNCIL
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Title. – This Act shall be known as the “National Quality
Infrastructure Development Act.”
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is declared the policy of the State to adopt a
culture of quality among its citizens to encourage competitiveness among firms, to
facilitate trade, and to promote consumer welfare in accordance with good regulatory
practices.
The State shall adopt and strengthen its quality infrastructure network that would
support national policies and strategies on economic development, industrialization, trade
and investments, ease of doing business, consumer protection, and environmental
protection, while adhering to international best practices and international standards.
The State recognizes the critical role of the private sector in the national quality
infrastructure, and shall promote a transparent, participatory, coherent, and efficient


mechanism to enable businesses to effectively comply with market requirements and
consumer needs.
Pursuant thereto, the State shall also develop a National Quality Policy (NQP) that
will further strengthen the Philippine National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) to provide the
necessary institutional apparatus so that the country’s private sector can produce products
and services of a prescribed national or international standard; and the verification of
conformance to these standards can be achieved by internationally accepted means.
It is hereby declared the policy of the State to harmonize the fragrmented quality
programs and policies, as well as institutionalize effective cooperation and coordnation
among the NQI institutions in the country, as well as with their regional and international
counterparts. The NQI shall serve both the regulatory authorities and the market place in
order to comply with the State’s constitutional mandate to protect consumer rights and
encourage industries and other organizations to adopt quality improvements and best
practices into their day-to-day activities.
SEC. 3. Coverage. – This Act shall apply to activities, processes, programs, and to
public and private institutions relevant to standards, accreditation, metrology, conformity
assessment, and other matters incidental thereto.
SEC. 4. Definitions of Terms. – For purpose of this Act, the following terms are
defined as follows:
a)
Accreditation refers to a third-party attestation conveying a formal
demonstration of the competence of a conformity assessment body to carry out specific
conformity assessment tasks. It provides a basis for uniform technical policy and
conditions for mutual recognition at the international level;
b)
Calibration refers to the operation that is used to establish that the
measuring instruments used remain accurate within specified parameters;
c)
Certification refers to a third-party attestation of conformance to standards,
technical regulations, other specified requirements or guidelines related to products,


processes, systems or persons. This can be accomplished by conducting inspection,
verification, audit and/or testing;
d)
Conformity
Assessment
refers
to
the
demonstration
that
specified
requirements relating to a product, process, system, person or body are fulfilled;
e)
Conformity Assessment Body refers to a body that performs conformity
assessment activities and that can be the object of accreditation;
f)
Culture of Quality refers to the set of group values that guide how
improvements are made to everyday working practices and consequent outputs;
g)
Inspection refers to the examination of a product, process, service, or
installation, or their design and determination of its conformity with specific
requirements or, on the basis of professional judgment, with general requirements;
h)
Metrology refers to the science of measurement and its application, which
includes all theoretical and practical aspects of measurement;
i)National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) refers to policy, legal, regulatory, and
administrative frameworks, and the institutional arrangements, public and private, to
implement standardization, accreditation, and totality of the testing, certification, and
measurement necessary to provide acceptable evidence that products and services meet
the defined government and market standards;
j)National Quality Policy (NQP) refers to the basic government instrument for
establishing and overseeing the quality infrastructure system;
k)
Philippine National Standard (PNS) refers to a document established by
consensus and promulgated by the Bureau of Philippine Standards, which provides, for
common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, or characteristics for activities or their
results which aim at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context;
l)
Quality refers to the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill
requirements;
m)
Standards refers to the document approved by a recognized body that
provides for common and repeated use, rules, guidelines, or characteristics for products


or related processes and production methods, with which compliance is not mandatory. It
may also include terminology, symbols, packaging, marking, or labelling requirements as
they apply to a product, process, or production method;
n)
Standardization
refers
to
the
process
of
developing
technical
specifications of standards base don consensus among all interested parties, consumers,
trade associations, manufacturers and providers of goods and services, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), and government agencies and instrumentalities; and
o)
Testing refers to the determination of a product’s characteristics against
the requirements of the standard.
SEC. 5.
Philippine National Quality Policy. – A Philippine National
Quality Policy shall be developed to ensure that Philippine products and services are
globally accepted; earn a reputation of highest quality in terms of safety, standards, and
acceptability; promote a national culture of quality among the citizenry; and the
Philippine goods and services are designed, manufatured, and supplied in a manner that
fully matches or exceeds the needs, expectations, and requirements of the retailers,
purchasers, consumers, and regulatory authorities in the local, regional and international
markets.
The National Quality Policy shall define the National Quality Insfrastructure
in accordance with the objectives set forth in this Act.
SEC. 6. Scope of the NQI. – The NQI shall prescired the policy, regulatory,
and legal frameworks on Standardization, Accreditation, Metrology, and Conformity
Assessment that shall be defined in the implementing rules and regulations of this Act.
SEC. 7. Institutional Arrangements. – To achieve the objects set forth in
this Act, there is hereby created a Philippine National Quality Infrastructure Coordination
Council (PNQICC), herein referred to as the Council.


The Council shall be composed of the following:
a)
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary and Department of
Science and Technology (DOST) Secretaries as Co-Chairpersons;
b)
A representative of the private sector as Vice-Chairperson;
c)The Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM);
d)
The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture (DA);
e)The Secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE);
f)The Secretary of the Deparment of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR);
g)
The Secretary of the Department of Information and Communications
Technology (DICT);
h)
The Secretary of the Department of Finance (DOF);
i)The Secretary of the Department of Health (DOH);
j)The Secretary of the Department of Tourism (DOT);
k)
The Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH);
l)
The Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA);
m)
A representative of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP);
n)
Four (4) members from the private sector who shall represent exporters,
manufacturers, importers, and consumers; and
o)
A representative of the academe or research institutions.
The DTI and DOST Secretaries may designate the appropriate Undersecretary as their
alternate, and the other ex officio members may designate an alternate with the rank not below
the rank of Director.
The President shall appoint the Vice-Chairperson from the nominees submitted by the
reputable business groups or associations.


A permanent secretariat shall be organized by the DTI to assist the Council in the
discharge of its functions.
SEC.
8.
Functions
of
the
Philippine
National
Quality
Infrastructure
Coordination Council. – The Council shall perform the following functions:
a)
Formulate and adopt a Philippine National Quality Policy pursuant to
Section 5 of this Act;
b)
Instill a culture of quality in all levels of society, at the individual and
institutional levels, through an effective information, education, capacity building, and
communication campaign to relevant regulatory bodies and to the public;
c)
Ensure the adoption of good regulatory practices and policy cohesión by
NQI institutions and in the delivery of NQI services, as well as in the development and
promotion of programs and projects;
d)
Create
committees
or
technical
working
groups
and
request
the
participation, assistance and cooperation of government agencies, industry associations,
consumers, the academe, and other stakeholders, if necessary for the performance of its
functions and attainment of the objectives of this Act;
e)
Identify the roles and contribution of government agencies, the private
sector, industry associations, non-government organizations, and other stakeholders in
attaining the visión and adhering to the principles prescribed in this Act;
f)
Coordinate and support programs, projects, and activities that will foster
the development of a responsible and sustainable NQI, such as but not limited to
improving and increasing the availability of experts, technical assessors, laboratories,
calibration services, and product certification bodies, among others;
g)
Provide direction and order, and encourage the participation of the public
and private sectors in conformity assessment activities and mechanisms as a means to
demonstrate compliance with voluntary and mandatory requirements to public and
private sectors;


h)
Promote the adoption of quality management practices and necessary
training to those in charge of the production and commercialization of goods and services
in the country;
i)Promulgate rules to enable the NQI institutions under its direction to offer
technical support to relevant industries;
j)Ensure that standardization, accreditation, and metrological processes are in line
with and comparable to international best practices;
k)
Ensure the proper promulgation of all standards created by other agencies
and instrumentalities of the government, and perform standardization functions over
conformity assessment bodies in the country;
l)Direct the development of the National Standardization Strategy and the National
Accreditation Strategy, with the involvement of all stakeholders;
m)
Ensure that the country participates in regional and international
standardization efforts and accreditation activities, arrangements, and fora;
n)
Support
the
formation
of
cooperation
and
conclusión
of
mutual
recognition arrangements and agreements with national, regional, and international
organizations;
o)
Promote the recognition of accreditation among regulatory agencies by:
i. Requiring their testing and calibration laboratories, inspection bodies and
certifying bodies to seek accreditation;
ii. Requiring government agencies to utilize the services of test and calibration
laboratories, inspection bodies, certification bodies, and other conformity assessment
bodies that are accredited by the Accreditation Philippines or a signatory member of the
Asia Pacific Accreditation Cooperation (APAC), International Accreditation Forum
(IAF), International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), and International
Halal Accreditation Forum (IHAF);


iii. Establishing aggrements, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and Mutual
Recognition Arrangement (MRA) with regulatory bodies, other accreditation bodies,
signatory members and other interested parties;
p)
Ensure
the
maintenance
and
continuous
update
of
the
national
measurement standards in all relevant fields for the Philippines, guaranteeing that all
metrological laboratories, insfrastructure, equipment, instruments, artifacts, reference
standards, and other similar articles are in good condition, intentionally compliant, and
reliant and other qualities that may be required in the future;
q)
Provide metrological traceability to the International System of Units (ISU)
for measurements used in regulations, trade, and manufacturing;
r)
Engage and coordinate research and development work with other local
institutes/bodies having metrological responsibilities (radiation, standard time and
dissemination, etc.);
s)
Exercise responsibility for legal metrological controls in the country
through coordination with other executive branches of government;
t)Ensure uniformity and metrological procedures in the same prescribed manner of
their implementation; and
u)
Perform such other functions as may be necessary, incidental, or proper to
its mandate.
SEC. 9. Role of NQI Institutions. – Under the direction of the Philippine National
Quality Infrastructure Council, all existing NQI institutions involved in standards
development, accreditation, metrology, and conformity assessment shall continue to
perform the mandates and functions assigned to them by their respective enabling laws,
including but not limited to:
a)
Department of Agriculture (DA)
i.Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards (BAFS) pursuant to Republic Act
No. 8435;


ii.
National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS), pursuant to Republic Act No.
9296;
b)
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), pursuant to
Executive Order No. 192, Series of 1987;
c)
Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)
i.National ICT Planning Policy and Standards Bureau (NIPPSB), pursuant to
Republic Act No. 10844;
d)
Department of Energy (DOE)
i.
Energy
Research
and
Testing
Laboratory
(ERTL),
pursuant
to
Administrative Order No. 38, Series of 2002;
ii.
National Renewable Energy Board (NREB), pursuant to Republic Act No.
9513;
iii.
Oil Industry and Management Bureau (OIMB), pursuant to Republic Act
No. 8479;
e)
Department of Health (DOH)
i.Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), pursuant to Republic Act No. 9711;
f)
Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
i.
Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI), pursuant to
Executive Order No. 128, Series of 1987;
ii.
Industrial
Technology
Development
Institute
(ITDI),
pursuant
to
Executive Order No. 128, Series of 1987;
iii.
Metals Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC), pursuant to
Republic Act No. 4724;
iv.
National Metrology Laboratory (NML), pursuant to Republic Act No.
9236;
g)
Department of Tourism (DOT)
i.
Office of Tourism Standards and Regulations, pursuant to Republic Act
No. 9593;
h)
Department of Transportation (DOTr)
i.
Land
Transportation
Franchising
and
Regulatory
Board
(LTFRB),
pursuant to Executive Order No. 202, Series of 1987


i)Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)
i.
Bureau of Research and Standards (BRS), pursuant to Executive Order No.
292, Series of 1987;
j)Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
i.
Bureau of Philippine Standards (BPS), pursuant to Republic Act No. 4109;
ii.
Philippine Accreditation Bureau (PAB), pursuant to Executive Order No.
802, Series of 2009;
k)
National Commission of Muslim Filipinos (NCMF), pursuant to Republic
Act No. 9997;
l)National Water Resources Board (NWRB), pursuant to Presidential Decree No.
1067, s. 1976; and
m)
Local Government Units, pursuant to Republic Act No. 7394
SEC. 10. Appropriations. – The amount necessary for the conduct of activities and
projects of the Council to effectively perform its mandates functions under this Act, shall
be sourced from the budgets of the different government departments tasked to
implement the same.
SEC. 11. Implementing Rules and Regulations. – Within sixty (60) working days
from the effectivity of this Act, the DTI and DOST, in consultation with the DBM, DOF,
NEDA, and other relevant stakeholders shall issue the implementing rules and
regulations of this Act.
SEC. 12. Separability Clause. – If any provision of this Act is declared invalid or
unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected by such declaration shall remain in full
force and effect.
SEC. 13. Repealing Clause. – All provisions of other laws, presidential decrees,
issuances, executive orders, letter of instructions, administrative orders, rules and
regulations which are contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are
hereby deemed repealed, modified, or amended accordingly.


SEC. 14. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,