IRR of RA 9292

PRC Resolution No. 02

Series of 2007

RULES AND REGULATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THE

PROVISIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9292,
“THE ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING LAW OF
2004.”
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SECTION 1. Title. – This Resolution shall be known as

the “RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE
“ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING LAW OF 2004”,
hereinafter - referred to as the “IRR”
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SECTION 2. Statement of Policy:

 The State recognizes the importance of electronics
engineering in nation-building and development.
 The state shall therefore develop and nurture competent,
virtuous, productive and well-rounded Professional Electronic
Engineers, Electronics Engineers and Electronics Technicians
whose standard of practice and service shall be excellent,
qualitative, world class and globally competitive through
inviolable, honest, effective and credible licensure
examinations and through regulatory measures, programs and
activities that foster their integrity, continuing professional
education, development and growth.
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SECTION 3. Definition and Interpretation of Terms – As

used in R.A. 9292, the following terms shall mean:
 (a) Act – refers to R.A. 9292
 (b) Electronics - the science dealing with the
development and application of devices and systems
involving the flow of electrons or other carriers of electric
charge, in a vacuum, in gaseous media, in plasma, in
semiconductors, in solid-state and/or in similar devices,
including, but not limited to, applications involving optical,
electromagnetic and other energy forms when
transduced or converted into electronic signals.
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(c) Professional Electronics Engineer - a person who is qualified

to hold himself/herself out as a duly registered/licensed
Professional Electronics Engineer under this Act and to affix to
his/her name the letters "PECE".
(d) Electronics Engineer - a person who is qualified to hold
himself/herself out as a duly registered/licensed Electronics
Engineer under this Act and to affix to his/her name the letters
"ECE".
(e) Electronics Technician - a person who is qualified to hold
himself/herself out as a duly registered/licensed Electronics
Technician under
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(f) Electronics and Communications Engineer - a person

who is qualified to hold himself/herself out as a duly-
registered/licensed Electronics and Communications
Engineer under Republic Act No. 5734.
(g) Computer – any of a variety of electronic devices that is
capable of accepting data, programs and/or instructions,
executing the programs and/or instructions to process the
data and presenting the results.
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(h) Information and Communications Technology - the

acquisition, production, transformation, storage and
transmission/reception of data and information by
electronic means in forms such as vocal, pictorial, textual,
numeric or the like; also refers to the theoretical and
practical applications and processes utilizing such data
and information.
(i) Communications - the process of sending and/or
receiving information, data, signals and/or messages
between two (2) or more points by radio, cable, optical
wave guides or other devices and wired or wireless
medium.
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(j) Telecommunications - any transmission, emission or

reception of voice, data, electronic messages, text, written
or printed matter, fixed or moving pictures or images,
words, music or visible or audible signals or sounds, or
any information, intelligence and/or control signals of any
design/format and for any purpose, by wire, radio,
spectral, visual/optical/light, or other electronic,
electromagnetic and technological means.
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(k) Broadcast, Broadcasting - an undertaking the object of

which is to transmit audio, video, text, images or other
signals or messages for reception of a broad audience in
a geographical area via wired or wireless means.
(l) Industrial Plant - includes all manufacturing
establishments and other business endeavors where
electronic or electronically-controlled machinery or
equipment are installed and/or are being used, sold,
maintained, assembled, manufactured or operated.
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(m) Commercial Establishment - shall include but not be

limited to office buildings, hotels, motels, hospitals,
condominiums, stores, apartments, supermarkets,
schools, studios, stadia, parking areas, memorial
chapels/parks, watercraft and aircraft used for business or
profit, and any other building/s or area/s for business
purposes, where electronic or electronically-controlled
machinery or equipment are installed and/or are being
used, sold, maintained, assembled, manufactured or
operated.
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(n) Consulting Services - as used in this Act, shall

include services requiring adequate technical
expertise, experience and professional capability
in undertaking advisory and review, pre-
investment or feasibility studies, design, planning,
construction, supervision, management and
related services, and other technical studies or
special studies in the field of electronics
engineering.
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(o) Accredited Professional Organization – refers to the

Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines, Inc.
(IECEP, Inc) as the integrated and accredited national
organization of Professional Electronics Engineers, Electronics
Engineers and Electronics Technicians.

Electronics and/or Communication terms and phrases, whose

definitions are not included in this section shall be understood
to convey the meaning given to them by R.A. 9292 and other
existing laws, rules or regulations on electronics and/or
telecommunications of the Philippine government or by
international bodies adhered to by the Philippine government
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SECTION 4. Categories of Practice - The Act defines the three

electronics engineering and technician categories and their
abbreviations as follows:
(a) Professional Electronics Engineer, (PECE)
(b) Electronics Engineer, (ECE)
(c) Electronics Technician, (ECT)
The above abbreviations, as well as other abbreviations used in
the Act, shall henceforth be used in this IRR for brevity.
The abbreviation ECE shall take on the new meaning as defined
above and the professional title Electronics and
Communications Engineer shall henceforth cease to exist.
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SECTION 5. Nature and Scope of Practice of Electronics

Engineering and Electronics Technician - The scope and
nature of practice of the Electronics Engineer shall embrace
and consist of any work or activity relating to the application of
engineering sciences and/or principles to the investigation,
analysis, synthesis, planning, design, specification, research
and development, provision, procurement, marketing and
sales, manufacture and production, construction and
installation, tests/measurements/control, operation, repair,
servicing, technical support and maintenance of electronic
components, devices, products, apparatus, instruments,
equipment, systems, networks, operations and processes in
the fields of electronics, including communications and/or
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telecommunications, information and communications technology (ICT),

computers and their networking and hardware/firmware/software
development and applications, broadcast/broadcasting, cable and wireless
television, consumer and industrial electronics, electro-
optics/photonics/opto-electronics, electro-magnetics, avionics, aerospace,
navigational and military applications, medical electronics, robotics,
cybernetics, biometrics and all other related and convergent fields; it also
includes the administration, management, supervision and regulatory
aspects of such works and activities; similarly included are those teaching
and training activities which develop the ability to use electronic
engineering fundamentals and related advanced knowledge in electronics
engineering, including lecturing and teaching of technical and professional
subjects given in the electronics engineering and electronics technician
curriculum and licensure examinations.
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(a) The scope and nature of practice of the ECE as defined

in this Section shall be also applicable to the PECE, with
the sole difference that it shall only be the latter who can
provide consulting services as defined in the Act, and to
sign and seal electronics plans, drawings, permit
applications, specifications, reports and other technical
documents prepared by himself/herself and/or under
his/her direct supervision.
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(b) ECEs are not prevented from rendering design work and
providing/assuming any supervisory role in electronics
works and related fields; provided that all plans, drawings,
specifications, reports and related technical documents
resulting or produced from such works which shall be
submitted to regulatory authorities and/or that impacts on
life, limb and property shall be reviewed and accordingly
signed and sealed only by a PECE, to indicate that the
PECE approves of and assumes responsibility for the
technical accuracy and correctness, as well as the safety
aspects, of the works represented by such documents.
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(c) Consulting services, as previously defined in Section 3

of the Act, is further clarified herein as those consulting
services rendered by the PECE regardless of whether or
not they are paid for or compensated in any way by the
beneficiary thereof.
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(d) The scope and nature of practice of the Electronics Technician

profession shall embrace and consist of any non-engineering
work or activity relating to the installation, construction,
operation, control, tests and measurements, diagnosis, repair
and maintenance, manufacture and production, sales and
marketing of any electronic component/s, device/s, products,
apparatus, instruments, equipment, system/s, network/s,
operations and processes located on land, watercraft, aircraft,
industrial plants or commercial establishments, including the
teaching and training of technical and professional subjects
given in the electronics technician curriculum and licensure
examinations.
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All subjects for licensure examinations shall be taught by

persons who are holders of valid certificates of registration
and professional identification cards, or special temporary
permits issued by the Board and the Commission; provided
that, for the implementation of this requirement, the Board,
through the Commission, shall, within ninety (90) days from
the effectivity of this “IRR”, furnish the CHED with a listing
of the various subjects included in the licensure
examinations, together with copies of the syllabi for the
subjects for examination.