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contentious areas/issues which are subject of operational issues and conflicting claims
between and among the DAR, the DENR and the NCIP, as follows:
a. Untitled lands being claimed by the ICCs/IPs to be part of their AD/AL which are
covered by approved survey plans and also being claimed by the DAR and/or the
DENR.
b. Titled lands with registered Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs),
Emancipation Patents (EPs), and Patents within Certificate of Ancestral Domain
Title (CADT)/Certificate of Ancestral Land Title (CALT)/Certificate of Ancestral
Domain Claim (CADC)/Certificate of Ancestral Land Claim (CALC).
c. Resource access/development instruments issued by the DENR over lands within
Ancestral Land/Domain Claims such as, but not limited to, Community-Based
Forest Management Agreement (CBFMA), Integrated Forest Management
Agreement (IFMA), Socialized Forest Management Agreement (SIFMA), Protected
Area Community-Based Resources Management Agreement (PACBRMA), Forest
Land Grazing Management Agreement (FLGMA), Co-Management Agreement,
Certificate of Stewardship Contract (CSC), Certificate of Forest Stewardship
Agreement (CFSA), Wood Processing Plant Permit (WPPP), Special Land Use
Permit (SLUP), Private Land Timber Permit (PLTP), Special Private Land Timber
Permit (SPLTP), and Foreshore Lease Agreement/Permit (FLA/FLP).
d. Exploration Permit (EP), Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA);
Mineral Agreement (either Production Sharing, Co-Production or Joint Venture)
issued within CARP-covered areas.
e. Reservations, proclamations and other special law-declared areas a portion or the
entirety of which is subsequently issued a CADT/CALT.
f. Areas with existing and/or vested rights after the registration of the CADTs/CALTs
but for any reason not segregated/excluded.
g. Other jurisdictional and operational issues that may arise between and amongst
the DAR, the DENR and the NCIP as may be determined by the
National/Regional/Provincial Joint Committees, as created under Section 19 of the
Joint Administrative Order.
h. Formal complaints filed by concerned ICCs/IPs or by the NCIP in behalf of the
ICCs/IPs over those identified titled areas found within the AD/AL.
It is inevitable that disputes will arise involving the above-stated contentious
areas/issues, and affecting the rights of parties who are non-IPs or those who belong to
different ICCs/IPs groups. As a matter of fair play and due process, however, such
parties cannot be compelled to comply with the two conditions[53] before such disputes
may be brought before the NCIP under Section 66 of the IPRA, since IPs/ICCs are
recognized to have their own separate and distinct customary laws and Council of
Elders/Leaders. Hence, the Court cannot sustain the view that the NCIP shall have
exclusive and original jurisdiction over all claims and disputes involving rights of
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