Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis N. Tolentino on Friday issued Memorandum Circular No.04 revising the guidelines for the issuance of exemptions from the Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP), more popularly known as “number-coding.”

Privately-owned vehicles being used by media personalities on official duties as attested by concerned publisher/editor/station manager, are exempted provided that the written authority is carried and presented upon request, the memorandum stated.

The memorandum also provided that members of the Integrated Metro Bus Operators, Provincial Bus Operators of the Philippines, and Southern Luzon Bus Operators Association are partially exempted, pending review of the Memorandum of Agreement dated July 15, 1996.

The MMDA will grant conduct passes on a limited basis to, among others, heavy vehicles delivering petroleum products; heavy vehicles of messengerial services; heavy vehicles used as garbage trucks; emergency heavy vehicles of power and water companies; heavy vehicles used by the government in the construction of flagship projects; and heavy vehicles carrying perishable goods.

Exempted:

• cargo trucks and other heavy vehicles
• ambulance
• firetrucks
• police patrol cars
• military vehicles with permanent marking
• vehicles for military relief or for emergency
• vehicles carrying person/s needing urgent medical care
• diplomatic vehicles with diplomatic plates
• government vehicles with government plates or Land Transportation Office (LTO) stickers
• school buses with LTO stickers
• official media vehicles with markings
• MMDA-accredited tow trucks
• vehicles delivering perishable goods
• vehicles used by medical practitioners in an emergency
• vehicles on a mission to carry relief goods to calamity or depressed areas
• motorcycles
• Department of Tourism-accredited vehicles.