The report is a companion report of D4.4.1 (Long-term strategic plan for site-specific operating of monitoring and observation system at Pilot Sites), which is providing the detailed strategy for specific monitoring at five Pilot Sites. The report will mainly list the recommendations specifically targeting the key activities that would assure the sustainability of the climate monitoring on the long term. The recommendations span over various activities, related to the monitoring programmes itself, tools for more efficient management, securing long-term finances, opening the data and the data products to all 
potential users and products, fostering collaborations between scientists, managers and policy-makers, and on educational activities. Each recommendation contains the aim of the recommendation, the description, the timeframe of the recommendation (short-term, 1-2 years, middle-term, 3-5 years, long-term, 6-10 years), and funding programmes and instruments that may be consumed to get a financial framework for the activity.