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The Parties shall encourage research, development, monitoring and cooperation related, but not limited, to:
a) Emissions, long-range transport and deposition levels and their modelling, existing levels in the biotic and abiotic environment, the elaboration of procedures for harmonizing relevant methodologies;
b) Pollutant pathways and inventories in representative ecosystems;
c) Relevant effects on human health and the environment, including quantification of those effects;
d) Best available techniques and practices, including agricultural practices, and emission control techniques and practices currently employed by the Parties or under development;
e) Methodologies permitting consideration of socio-economic factors in the evaluation of alternative control strategies;
f) An effects-based approach which integrates appropriate information, including information obtained under subparagraphs a) to e) above, on measured or modelled environmental levels, pathways, and effects on human health and the environment, for the purpose of formulating future control strategies which also take into account economic and technological factors;
g) Methods for estimating national emissions and projecting future emissions of individual persistent organic pollutants and for evaluating how such estimates and projections can be used to structure future obligations;
h) Levels of substances subject to the present Protocol that are contained as contaminants in other substances, chemical products or manufactured articles and the significance of these levels for long-range transport, as well as techniques to reduce levels of these contaminants, and, in addition, levels of persistent organic pollutants generated during the life cycle of timber treated with pentachlorophenol.
Priority should be given to research on substances considered to be the most likely to be submitted under the procedures specified in article 14, paragraph 6.