The Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) has one of the most daunting mandates in national development, as it regulates and supervises the practice of the professionals who constitute the highly skilled manpower of the country. As the agency-in-charge of the professional sector, the PRC plays a strategic role in developing the corps of professionals for industry, commerce, governance, and the economy.
Professional regulation impacts not only on the lives of the 2.4 million registered Filipino professionals from 42 various fields and the hundreds of thousands of aspiring professionals who take the licensure examinations every year. More, so, PRC affects the lives of every Filipino relying on the services of these professionals.
The PRC mandate has gone far beyond licensing board passers into promoting and sustaining a corps of world-class, technical proficient, and ethically competent Filipino professionals. The need to modernize and re-engineer the PRC has become the foremost concern. The enactment of Republic Act No. 8981 or the PRC Modernization Act of 2000 and the change in agency leadership gave birth to a new PRC.