English: GMES and Galileo The Assembly, (i) Considering that security and defence today are inconceivable without appropriate and effective space systems; (ii) Noting that the various European players have defined a space policy for Europe which for the first time has a community dimension; (iii) Reaffirming the importance of the Helsinki European Council for the development of the European Security and Defence Policy; (iv) Stressing that the European Union already has an asset essential to a sovereign and autonomous space policy in the form of its extremely reliable capabilities guaranteeing it access to space; (v) Welcoming the fact that taking into account the security and defence aspects of European space strategy has not meant the neglect of environmental effects, particularly planetary climate change, environmental pressures and natural or manmade disasters; these being the three main threads of the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) programme; (vi) Taking the view that it is vital for the European Union, in connection both with its Petersberg tasks and implementation of its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), to have an independent and reliable capability for monitoring crisis areas and that such surveillance systems will help the European Union to deliver aid more effectively and discharge in full its commitments under the international treaties to which it is party; (vii) Considering that the Galileo programme is a unique opportunity for Europe to affirm its political and strategic cohesion but represents a difficult task both in terms of its technological complexity and the highly innovative nature of the choices that the countries concerned will need to make within various sectors (legal, financial, political, etc.) for its realisation; (viii) Stressing that the European Council Resolution of 22 May 2007 on European space policy places the security aspects of space policy in the foreground, particularly in the chapter on security and defence, and that the text quite clearly leaves the door open to the dual use of the GMES and Galileo systems, even though the bulk of their applications will remain civil; (ix) Recalling in that regard that one of the Galileo services, the Public Regulated Service (PRS), will be reserved for public and governmental users, for strategic applications requiring priority of service in the event of a crisis and protection against jamming by third parties; (x) Considering that negotiation of the Galileo contract with the consortium composed of major companies in the sector and based on the public-private partnership system of funding designed by the European Commission collapsed in 2007; (xi) Stressing that the Galileo satellite navigation project was therefore stopped in its tracks due to a series of factors which necessitated a re-examination of the funding arrangements for the entire programme; (xii) Noting the proposal formulated by the Commission for amending the Union’s budget forecasts for the period 2007-2013 so as to enable the programme to be implemented satisfactorily; (xiii) Welcoming the decision on the financing of the Galileo programme taken by the Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Council and the European Parliament in November 2007, making it possible to move on to the development phase which provides for EGNOS (European Geostationary Overlay System) to enter into operational service within two years and the letting of tenders for the Galileo system, leading to full exploitation of the latter by 2013;
French: RECOMMANDATION N° 821 sur des systèmes spatiaux pour la sécurité européenne :