To explore costs and benefits of, and make recommendations for, establishing a European long-term integrated monitoring site network, based on existing terrestrial sites;

To identify European-scale user requirements for data and information from such a network;

To identify immediate actions to improve the coherence of existing sites, particularly in relation to emerging opportunities for integrated monitoring schemes in Eastern Europe;

To identify priority areas for research and development which will enhance the development of the network to meet the specified user requirements; and

To establish a self-sustaining information exchange network harnessing the capability of the Internet, to provide a forum for the exchange of information between sites and users of the data and information.