Council that it: (a) Request the Executive Director of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations to prepare a comprehensive and analytical study for submission to the Commission at its seventeenth session with a view to helping the Commission make a significant and action-oriented contribution to the preparatory work of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; (b) Also request the Executive Director of the Centre, in preparing the study requested, to focus on the role of transnational corporations in promoting access to and transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries, to include specific and innovative proposals to strengthen such transfer and, in co-operation with the relevant organs and organizations of the United Nations system, to investigate measures that could mobilize transnational corporations to protect and enhance the environment in relation to development; (c) Request the Executive Director of the Centre to continue examination of those issues, including ways and means of strengthening the participation of transnational corporations in the efforts to increase environmental protection and provide access to information on cleaner technologies, to examine the feasibility of financial mechanisms which will encourage transnational corporations to contribute to the protection of the environment of developing countries, and to report to the seventeenth session of the Commission with a view to assisting it in its contribution to the Preparatory Committee of the Conference. 2. The activities of the Centre on Transnational Corporations on environment issues have been included under programme element 2.9 of subprogramme 2 (Minimizing the negative effects of transnational corporations and enhancing their contribution to development) of section 9 of the 1990-1991 programme budget. The activities referred to in the above operative paragraphs of the draft resolution are additional to those. The related costs for implementing them would, therefore, constitute an additional requirement for the current biennium. 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the role of transnational corporations in promoting access to and transfer of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries, and ways to strengthen their participation in environmental protection efforts. This suggests that the category should be related to the environment and economic development.

**Category**
Natural resources and environment, Economic development