TO PREPARE SURVEY OF THE FATE AND EFFECTS OF IMPORTANT CHEMICALS ON THE FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT AND TO DEVELOP AND TEST FORMATS FOR COMPUTERISED DATA PROCESSING.

THE FOLLOWING DATA CATEGORIES SHALL BE COVERED:

- DISPERSION AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT
1) DISPERSION PATHWAYS
2) ABIOTIC DEGRADATION
3) BIODEGRADATION
4) METABOLISM AND ELIMINATION
5) BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION

- EFFECTS ON AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT
1) CHRONIC AND ACUTE MORTALITY
2) SUBLETHAL EFFECTS

FORMATS FOR PRESENTATION OF DATA IN THE FIELDS OF DISPERSION PATHWAYS TRANSFORMATION OF ELEMENTS, AND ABIOTIC DEGRADATION SHALL BE THOROUGHLY STUDIED AND SUITABLE FORMATS SHALL BE DEVELOPED.

DATA TO BE COLLECTED SHALL BE PRESENTED IN SUCH STRUCTURED FORMATS.

RESEARCH WILL BE UNDERTAKEN REGARDING DATA QUALITY OF REPRESENTATION OF DATA, STANDARDISATION OF TERMINOLOGY.