Section 20. Confidential and Intelligence Funds. —

No amount in this Act shall be released or disbursed for confidential and intelligence activities unless approved by the President of the Philippines, or specifically identified and authorized as such confidential or intelligence fund in this Act.

Confidential and intelligence funds provided for in the budgets of departments, bureaus, offices or agencies of the national government, including amounts from savings authorized by special provisions to be used for intelligence and counter-intelligence activities, shall be released only upon approval of the President of the Philippines: PROVIDED, That at least eighty percent (80%) of confidential and intelligence funds shall be used for field operations.

All departments, bureaus offices or agencies shall submit to the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Chairman of the COA, a quarterly report on the accomplishments in the use of confidential and intelligence funds, copy furnished the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Appropriations.