Regional Director Marilou Quinco-Toledo of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Calabarzon announced on May 25 the launching of a “Negosyo” (Business) Center on June 25 at the Gusali ng Kapayapaan at Kalikasan (Freedom and Nature Building) on P. Burgos Street, Batangas City.
The Batangas City Negosyo Center is a pilot center along with the Quezon City Negosyo Center. Existing Negosyo Centers today are in Cagayan De Oro and Iloilo City.
Expected to grace the launching are Sen. Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino, Trade Secretary Gregory L. Domingo, and Ramon Lopez of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship, while Batangas City Mayor Eduardo Dimacuha will declare the center “business ongoing.”
Accordingly, Negosyo Centers are established in all provinces, cities and municipalities to promote ease of doing business and facilitate access to services for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in accordance to Republic Act 10644 also known as the “Go Negosyo Act.”
The Go Negosyo Act aims to promote job generation and inclusive growth through the development of MSMEs, and stipulates for the establishment of Negosyo Centers.
Moreover, the Act aims to reduce poverty by encouraging the establishment of MSMEs that facilitate local job creation, production and trade in the country.
Every Negosyo Center established will facilitate and expedite the business application process of MSMEs in coordination with the local governments and other concerned agencies and will provide assistance to MSMEs in the availment of technology transfer, production and management training programs and marketing assistance of the DTI and other government agencies.
A unified and simplified business registration form that contain all necessary information for the business application process of MSMEs will be made available in all Negosyo Centers.
Under the law, DTI through the Negosyo Centers will have sole power to issue the certificate of authority for the barangay micro business enterprises to avail of the benefits provided by Republic Act 9178, the Barangay Micro Business Enterprises Act of 2002.
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Council, through the DTI regional offices, will assign personnel and supervise the operations of the Negosyo Centers.
PNA