(أ) يشجـع جميـع الأطـراف، ولا سيمـا البلـدان المتقدمة الأطراف، على القيام - عند الاقتضاء - بتحسين البيئة الملائمة لنقل التكنولوجيات السليمة بيئياً عن طريق تحديد وإزالة الحواجز بما في ذلك في جملة أمور تدعيم الأطر التنظيمية المتعلقة بالبيئة وتعزيز النظم القانونية وضمان اتباع سياسات تجارية منصفة واستخدام الأفضليات الضريبية وحماية حقوق الملكية الفكرية وتحسين سبل الوصول إلى التكنولوجيات الممولة من الموارد العامة وغيرها من البرامج وذلك من أجل توسيع نطاق نقل التكنولوجيا من الناحيتين التجارية والعامة إلى البلدان النامية؛
The following are means of creating enabling environments for technology transfer: All Parties, particularly developed country Parties, are urged to improve, as appropriate, the enabling environment, for transfer of ESTs through identification and removal of barriers, including, inter alia, strengthening environmental regulatory frameworks, enhancing legal systems, ensuring fair trade policies, utilizing tax preferences, protecting intellectual property rights, and improving the access to publicly funded technologies, and other programmes to expand commercial and public technology transfer to developing countries; All Parties are urged to explore, as appropriate, opportunities to provide positive incentives, such as preferential government procurement, transparent and efficient approval procedures for technology transfer projects, and improvement of possible benchmarks, standards, and labelling, which support the development and diffusion of ESTs; All Parties are urged to promote joint research and development programmes, as appropriate, both bilaterally and multilaterally; Developed country Parties are encouraged to further promote and implement facilitative measures, for example, export credit programmes and tax preferences, and regulations, as appropriate, to promote transfer of ESTs; All Parties, particularly developed country Parties, are encouraged to integrate, as appropriate, the objective of technology transfer to developing countries into their national policies, including environmental and research and development policies and programmes; Developed country Parties are encouraged to promote, as appropriate, the transfer of publicly owned technologies.