SECTION 56

To promote this cooperation, Member States shall: a) harmonize their policies for prospecting, producing and processing mineral resources and their policies for prospecting, exploiting and distributing of water resources; b) coordinate their development and utilization programmes for mineral and water resources in order to exploit similarities and complementarities within the Community and promote vertical and horizontal inter-industrial relationships which may be established between Member States as a result of the upgrading of such resources; c) coordinate their positions in all international negotiations on raw materials in order to safeguard their interests; d) develop a system of transfer of know-how and exchange of scientific, technical and economic data among Member States; e) prepare and implement joint training and further-training programmes for cadres in order to develop the human resources and the appropriate local technological capacities needed for the exploration, exploitation and processing of mineral and water resources.