The Central Authorities shall endeavor to assure efficient cooperation of courts and prosecution authorities in the field of mutual legal assistance, in accordance with the applicable national law and this Agreement, in connection with the investigation, prosecution or court proceedings. 2. Mutual legal assistance shall include in particular transmitting the requests for: (a) taking the testimony or statements of persons; the authorities designated by the Requested Central Authority shall permit the presence of such persons as specified in the request during the execution of the request, and shall allow such persons to pose questions to the person giving the testimony or statement and to make minutes or a verbatim transcript, in a manner agreed to by the authorities designated by the Requested Central Authority, (b) paragraph 2 (a) of this Article shall be applied to authorize the authorities designated by the Requesting Central Authority to take testimony or statement of a person located in the territory to which request has been directed, by use of video transmission technology, (c) providing documents, records, and articles of evidence, (d) locating or identifying persons, (e) serving documents, (f) executing requests for searches and seizures, (g) examining objects and sites, (h) assisting in proceedings related to freezing or forfeiture of assets.