Artikel IV

The Commission shall have the functions of:
a. keeping under review the scientific, technical and economic problems that bear upon the object of the Commission as stated in Article I;
b. encouraging and co-ordinating research on the above-mentioned problems and promoting its practical application;
c. undertaking, where necessary and appropriate, co-operative projects directed to the solution of the above-mentioned problems;
d. recommending to Members of the Commission, through the Director-General of the Organization, such national and international action as may appear to the Commission to be necessary or desirable for the solution of the above-mentioned problems;
e. recommending to the Director-General of the Organization the provision of technical assistance to Members of the Commission in measures directed to that end;
f. assembling, collating and disseminating, through the publications of the Organization or otherwise, information relating to the problems and activities pertinent to the functions of the Commission; and
g. transmitting at appropriate intervals to the Director-General a report embodying its views, recommendations and decisions, and making such other reports to the Director-General of the Organization on matters relating to the production, conservation, distribution and consumption of rice, as the Commission itself may consider expedient or the Director-General or the Conference of the Organization may request. Reports of the committees and working parties of the Commission established under Article VI shall be formally transmitted to the Director-General through the Commission.