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“The Importance of Republic Act 6713 – an act establishing a Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees” An act establishing a code of conduct and ethical standards for public officials and employees, to uphold the time-honored principle of public office being a public trust, granting incentives and rewards for exemplary service, enumerating prohibited acts and transactions and providing penalties for violations thereof and for other purposes. The importance of Republic Act 6713 is that the State actively encourages a high level of ethics in public service. Public personnel and officials must always be held accountable to the public, do their jobs with the utmost responsibility, competence, loyalty, and fairness, behave with patriotism and justice, lead simple lives, and put the needs of the public before their own. Public servants offer services to the general populace, participate in the creation of governmental policy, and carry out gove