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2.Welcomes the updated guidance on the global monitoring plan3 and encouragesparties to use it and provide comments on their experience in doing so to the Secretariat through the regional organization groups;
3.Welcomes also the five regional monitoring reports;4
(a)To develop the draft global monitoring report, including its draft conclusions and recommendations, and an evaluation and assessment of changes in persistent organic pollutant concentrations over time, as specified in the effectiveness evaluation framework,5 and make it available to the effectiveness evaluation committee by 31 January 2016;
(b)To finalize the global monitoring report, including conclusions and recommendations, for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting;
(a)To support the global coordination group in developing the reports requested in paragraph 4 above;
(b)To continue to support, subject to the availability of resources, the work of the regional organization groups and the global coordination group in the implementation of the third phase of the global monitoring plan;
(c)To continue to support, subject to the availability of resources, training and capacity‑building activities to assist countries in implementing the global monitoring plan for subsequent effectiveness evaluations and to work with partners and other relevant organizations to undertake implementation activities;
6.Encourages parties to consider the conclusions and recommendations referred to in paragraph 1 above and engage actively in the implementation of the global monitoring plan and the effectiveness evaluation and, in particular:
(a)To continue to monitor the core media of air and human breast milk or human blood and, if in a position to do so, to initiate monitoring of perfluorooctane sulfonate in surface water in support of future evaluations;