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1. The Parties shall, within their capabilities, at the national and international levels, encourage and/or undertake appropriate research, development, monitoring and cooperation pertaining to persistent organic pollutants and, where relevant, to their alternatives and to candidate persistent organic pollutants, including on their:
a) Sources and releases into the environment;
b) Presence, levels and trends in humans and the environment;
c) Environmental transport, fate and transformation;
d) Effects on human health and the environment;
e) Socio-economic and cultural impacts;
f) Release reduction and/or elimination; and
g) Harmonized methodologies for making inventories of generating sources and analytical techniques for the measurement of releases.
2. In undertaking action under paragraph 1, the Parties shall, within their capabilities:
a) Support and further develop, as appropriate, international programmes, networks and organizations aimed at defining, conducting, assessing and financing research, data collection and monitoring, taking into account the need to minimize duplication of effort;
b) Support national and international efforts to strengthen national scientific and technical research capabilities, particularly in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, and to promote access to, and the exchange of, data and analyses;
c) Take into account the concerns and needs, particularly in the field of financial and technical resources, of developing countries and countries with economies in transition and cooperate in improving their capability to participate in the efforts referred to in subparagraphs a) and b);
d) Undertake research work geared towards alleviating the effects of persistent organic pollutants on reproductive health;
e) Make the results of their research, development and monitoring activities referred to in this paragraph accessible to the public on a timely and regular basis; and
f) Encourage and/or undertake cooperation with regard to storage and maintenance of information generated from research, development and monitoring.