CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 51 196. Philippine Overseas Employment Administration Memorandum Circular No. 41, Series of 1994, sets the guidelines for operationalizing this Department Order. It provided, inter alia, for: (a) Establishment of the Household Workers' Center in the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration; (b) Setting of the qualification, performance assessment and disqualification standards for licensed agencies/entities in the deployment of household workers; (c) Registration, training and trade testing of household workers; (d) Accreditation of foreign placement agencies. 197. As a consequence of exhaustive assessment and review by the Department of Labor and Employment of policies pertaining to the employment of performing artists abroad, a set of rules was issued giving the requirements, conditions and procedures by which performing artists may be hired overseas. The Department's Administrative Guidelines Implementing Department Circular 01-91 raised the minimum requirement for female performing artists to 23 years and instructed: (a) The pre-qualification of employers by the Philippine embassy/consulate in the worksite; (b) The accreditation with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration of employers, through their licensed agents; (c) The participation of promoters' associations in the accreditation of employers with the Administration and the processing of their recruited talents. 198. Department Order No. 35 of the Department of Labor and Employment, Series of 1994, provided for a comprehensive welfare programme for Filipino performing artists overseas. 199. Entertainers have been required to secure artist record books and should complete academic and skills training and testing before they could be employed abroad. 200. Responding to the case of Flor Contemplacion, a domestic helper convicted of double murder in Singapore and hanged after four years of imprisonment, the Government adopted a set of policy measures to address the issues surrounding the case and to respond to the issues and concerns confronting overseas contract workers in general. Executive Order 231 created a presidential fact-finding and policy advisory body whose first set of recommendations resulted to the President's issuance of a temporary ban on the deployment of domestic helpers to Singapore. He also ordered the allocation of funds for the provision of legal assistance to such workers. 201. Administrative Order 182 created the Assistance-to-National Task Force which is mandated: /...