ECOWAS 0 REVISED TREATY encourage the establishment of specialised institutions for the financing of West African multinational industrial projects; g) facilitate the establishment of West African multinational enterprises and encourage the participation of West African entrepreneurs in the regional industrialisation process. h) promote the sale and consumption of strategic industrial products manufactured in Member States; i) promote technical co-operation and the exchange ofexperience in the field of industrial technology and implement technical training programmes among Member States; j) establish a regional data and statistical information base to support industrial development at the regional and continental levels; k) promote, on the basis of natural resource endowments, industrial specialisation in order to enhance complementarity and expand the intraCommunity trade base; and 1) adopt common standards and appropriate quality control systems. ARTICLE 27 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 1. Member States shall: a) strengthen their national scientific and technological capabilities in order to bring about the socio-economic transformation required to improve the quality of life of their population; b) ensure the proper application of science and technology to the development of agriculture, transport and communications, industry, health and hygiene, energy, education and manpower and the conservation of the environment; c) reduce their dependence on foreign technology and promote their individual and collective technological self-reliance; d) co-operate in the development, acquisition and dissemination of appropriate technologies; and e) strengthen existing scientific research institutions and take all necessary measures to prepare and implement joint scientific research and technological development programmes. 19