metrology: a. develop standards and guidelines relating to forest products in domestic markets and the development of sustainable forest industries, which facilitate the participation of small-scale rural and local forest operators and promote the establishment and growth of industries based on sustainably harvested forest products; b. develop, in accordance with international trade rules, a binding system of harmonised trade regulations that: i. reduces or eliminates intra-regional barriers to trade in forest products in accordance with the Protocol on Trade; and ii. establishes harmonised standards for international trade in forest products from sustainably managed forests, including sanitary and phytosanitary standards relating to imported, exported and internally marketed forest products in accordance with sanitary and phytosanitary measures and standards and technical regulations on trade, as contained in the Protocol on Trade; c. develop specific product standards for wood and non-wood forest products, wherever appropriate to promote trade in forest products from sustainably managed forests in the Region; d. establish mechanisms for transboundary co-operation in enforcing controls concerning illegal trade in forest products; and e. adopt and apply appropriate measures to restrict or eliminate trade in protected tree species. ARTICLE 19: CAPACITY-BUILDING AND PUBLIC AWARENESS 1. State Parties shall actively promote education, training, public awareness and capacity-building in connection with forests, forestry and forest-related activities to support the achievement of the objectives of this Protocol. 2. State Parties shall: a. involve existing and new facilities and relevant institutions in the Region in education, training and capacity building in connection with forest-related activities; b. co-operate and collaborate with relevant international and other training and education institutions and organisations outside the Region concerned with forests, and forestry; c. promote the strengthening and development, throughout the Region, of centres of excellence in forest management, forest conservation and the production, utilisation and marketing of forest products; and d. develop a regional programme for capacity-building in the forest sector, giving particular attention to the development of capacity at the rural or local level to participate in all aspects of forest management and marketing. ARTICLE 20: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 1. State Parties shall actively promote research and development in connection with forests, forestry and forest-related activities to support the achievement of the objectives of this Protocol. 2. State Parties shall: a. actively involve existing and new facilities and institutions in the Region in research and development in connection with forest-related activities, including the conservation of forests, sustainable forest management, the production, utilisation and marketing of forest