38. Calls upon the United Nations Environment Programme, working within the Global Resource Information Database (GRID) system for data and information management, to expand on a voluntary basis the capacity of existing GRID centres to store and handle research data from the outer continental margin, on a basis to be mutually agreed with the coastal State, and complementary to existing regional data centres, giving due regard to confidentiality needs and in accordance with Part XIII of the Convention, and making use of existing data management mechanisms under the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the International Hydrographic Organization, with a view to serving the needs of coastal States, and in particular developing countries and small island developing States, in their compliance with article 76 of the Convention;
38. 吁请联合国环境规划署适当地考虑到保密的需要并按照公约第十三部分，在全球资源信息数据库系统的范围内努力促进数据和信息管理，在自愿的基础上，根据与沿海国达成的协议，配合现有的区域数据中心，扩大全球资源信息数据库现有各中心存储和处理大陆架外缘研究数据的能力，并利用政府间海洋学委员会和国际水文学组织的现有数据管理机制，以满足沿海国，特别是发展中国家和小岛屿发展中国家在遵守公约第七十六条方面的需要；