Institutional Arrangements in the Field of the Transfer of Technology

Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Orgaruzation to continue to take, in consultation with the appropriate organizations of the United Nations system, all necessary measures to establish an industrial technological information bank as a component of an over-all technological information exchange network and to report, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session;

Further requests other organizations in the United Nations system, including the regional commissions, to undertake feasibility studies on the establishment of sectoral and regional technological information banks and/or other viable information systems and to report, through the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its thirty-second session;

Requests the organizations concemed to consider, in their feasibility studies, the establishment of appropriate linkages among the information banks and/ or other viable information systems in order to provide developing countries with comprehensive technological information related to their specific requests; General Aalelllhly-Thlrtieah Seuion

Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in consultation with the regional commissions and other appropriate organizations, to continue their efforts, in their respective fields, to assist in the establishment, in developing countries, of centres for the transfer and development of technology at the national, subregional and regional levels in arder to facilitate fulfilment of the interrelated requirements of developing countries;

Requests the Secretary-General, in collaboration with the U nited N ations Conference on Trade and Uevelopment and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, to establish an interagency task force, which should use the widest possible expertise in the fields of information exchange and the transfer of technology and, taking into account the views expressed in the Committee on Science and Technology for Development, undertake a comprehensive analysis with a view to the preparation of a plan for the establishment of a network far the exchange of technological information, and to submit a report containing preliminary recommendations, through the Economic and Social Council at its sixty~first session, to the General Assembly.