The Division is responsible for maintaining and developing standard systems for designating chemical structures, including both conventional nomenclature and computer-based systems. This responsibility is to be fulfilled by:

• Identifying the needs of the user community.
• Generating projects arising from those needs.
• Identifying project leaders and task groups to carry out the work.
• Administering approved projects financially, monitoring their progress, and approving resulting recommendations for review by established IUPAC procedures.
• Identifying new sources of expertise and enabling their involvement in projects.
• As far as possible, ensuring that nomenclature systems projects and the resulting recommendations are compatible with each other, with established IUPAC recommendations, and with computer-based systems for manipulating chemical names and structures.

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