AGREEMENT ON GALILEO.(Brief article)

Tech Europe, April, 2008

The European Parliament and the Council are now on track to an agreement regarding the European satellite navigation programme Galileo. A compromise was found during a meeting, on 3 April, which should allow for a quick adoption of the proposal on the deployment phases and the operation of the system. The compromise was ratified in Coreper on 4 April and submitted to transport ministers on 7 April in Luxembourg. But, as an expert on this dossier says, "unless there's an unforeseen event of unimaginable size," everything leads them to believe that the agreement will hold.

The agreement saves from dissolution the Galileo Surveillance Authority, which the Parliament wanted to discard. But instead, its activities will be adapted. It also foresees the creation of a...

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