16. 专家组决定通过拟订一份调查表并分发给所有会员国来征集资料，而且专家组在其第一次会议上已花了许多时间确定问题和编写必要的文件。它还决定通过其成员的专长寻求以下方面的资料：(a) 识别各会员国有关爆炸物的资料来源；(b) 有关爆炸物的标识、标签和跟踪问题，以及在这些方面正在进行的研究成果；(c) 事件的跨国性问题，包括据以认定事件具有跨国性质的各种方法以及实际发生的程度；(d) 业已建立的国内和国际法律管制的类型，包括诸如制造、储存、运输和使用方面的安全措施，旨在限制接触爆炸物和确保安全使用爆炸物的国际海关管制、管理、许可或授权制度以及类似事项；(e) 各国在诸如下述有关方面对技术援助的需要情况：交流有关标签、标识、侦测和跟踪方面的科学资料、法院和执法专家培训以及交流有关犯罪方法和手段的资料。
16. The Group of Experts decided to seek information by developing a survey questionnaire and distributing it to all Member States, and spent much of its first meeting identifying issues and developing the necessary document. It also decided to seek information through the expertise of its own members in the following areas: (a) The identification of sources of information about explosives in various Member States; (b) Issues relating to the marking, tagging and tracing of explosives, as well as the results of any ongoing research in those areas; (c) Issues of transnationality in incidents, including the various ways in which an incident might be considered as transnational in nature, and the extent to which that actually occurred; (d) The types of domestic and international legal controls already in place, including such things as security in manufacture, storage, transportation and use, international customs controls, regulations and licensing or authorization systems intended to limit access and ensure the safe use of explosives, and similar matters; (e) The needs of countries for technical assistance in relevant areas such as the sharing of scientific information about tagging, marking, detection and tracing, the training of forensic and law enforcement experts and the sharing of information about criminal methods and techniques.