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excessive number of pages in the National Report. This could be avoid 
ed when only a lxst of selective publications would be presented in 
t lie National Report. Regarding this question, the replies to the ques 
tionnaire revealed that 56% of the reporting countries consider that 
only a list of selective publications should be presented in the 
National Report while 44% of the reporting countries are in favor of 
having presented in the National Report a complete list of all produced 
publications. Nevertheless, it appears that this item might need 
further consideration and does mainly depend on the publication ac 
tivity of the country in question: for small countries the number of 
publications produced is small and there is no reason not to present a 
complete list of produced publications, while for other countries with 
a large number of publications produced a complete listing of all 
these publications might substantially increase the cost for printing 
the required number of copies of the National Report. 
Question 8 iLength of the National Report, Number of Pages! 
In the past there have been produced National Reports which might be 
considered as being too short or too long in terms of number of pages. 
The size (or length) of such reports affect the cost for producing 
these reports. There have been countries (particularly larger 
countries) whose responsible National Committee encountered dif 
ficulties to finance the reproduction of the required number of 
copies of the National Report and this mainly because the report con 
tained quite a number of pages [20 pages or more]. By restricting the 
length (number of pages) these costs could be reduced. In more general 
terms it appears that a restriction of the length of the National 
Report might be considered as a reasonable request: the production of 
a National Report with e.g., 100 pages or more appears to be a rather 
unreasonable undertaking. The reaction to this question, and according 
to the replies to the questionnaire, shows that 24% of the reporting 
countries are not in favor of restricting the length of the National 
Report (number of pages) while 76% of the reporting countries recommend 
that the length of the National Report should be restricted. The 
recommended allowable number of pages varies from 3 pages to 30 pages 
resulting in an average of 14 pages, say roughly 15 pages. This re