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As stated in the Commission’s original proposal, this technology has clear strategic importance and may also generate significant economic benefits. The current systems in the US (GPS) and Russia (GLONASS) are both financed and run by the military, which means that signals may be interrupted or tampered with at any moment in order to protect the national interest. Galileo straightaway has the distinction of being a strictly civilian project, and so it must remain. It is, moreover, increasingly seen as an important means of protecting nature and of managing and conserving natural resources. We are already seeing its uses in agriculture and in civil defence (helping to select crops or predicting natural disasters). Other areas such as air, sea and river transport will benefit enormously from the emergence of this European technology.
I welcome the fact that the project is on schedule, and the fact that EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service – a system intended to strengthen the GPS signal, especially in civil aviation – is expected to be fully operational by April 2004.
I should lastly like to underline the need to ensure that it remains free or almost free for users of basic services ...
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