Practice question
An agency adopts a new domestic prohibition solely from a WHA recommendation. No domestic enactment authorizes the prohibition, and the agency supplies no evidence of a customary rule. It argues that membership in WHO alone transforms every recommendation into enforceable Philippine law. Which is best under Pharmaceutical?
- Membership makes every recommendation legislation
- The claimed automatic transformation fails; the legal basis and domestic route must be established
- An agency may always amend statutes through recommendations
- No international act can ever matter domestically
- A health-related title dispenses with legal authority
Legal references
- Pharmaceutical and Health Care Association v. Duque, GR 173034, October 9, 2007, main opinion: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2007/oct2007/gr_173034_2007.html
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