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Mr President, you know, I would be happy to continue this discussion all night, because Galileo is a really exciting project.
Even so, I should like once again to reassure the honourable Members: the first of the two experimental satellites was launched from Baïkonour on 28 December 2005, and it has successfully transmitted all of the signals allowing us to guarantee the use of the frequency bands allocated to the European satellite navigation system. The second satellite, GIOVE-B, will be launched in the course of 2007. It will carry other technologically advanced equipment such as the passive hydrogen MASER atomic clock, which will be the most precise atomic clock ever launched into space. In parallel with this, the industrial activities of the in-orbit validation phase began in December 2004. I have already said, and I will say it again, that the entire contract for the validation phase, amounting to EUR 1 038 million, was signed on 19 January 2006.
We are now entering a new phase, which will involve investigating all the possible applications for Galileo. As I have explained, we have issued a kind of appeal to all small and medium-sized enterprises and engineers able to develop innovations in this field. The Green Paper will in fact aim to ask the right questions, which should enable us to reach a better understanding of all the possible applications. Next, when this has given us an overall vision of the applications, we will be better able to deal with the public/private partnership and to plan how to distribute efforts. The industrial sector also needs to be involved, to the extent that it can benefit from these applications. That will finally allow us to found this concession contract on a reasonable financial basis. There is no reason to think, at this stage, that we will find ourselves in a situation difficult enough to upset the balance of the project.
That being said, I have made a genuine commitment to keeping Parliament informed – Mrs Barsi-Pataky, as rapporteur, is well aware of this, and I should like to thank her once again. I am absolutely committed to coming to Parliament whenever necessary to explain how things stand and how they are developing. You suggested that Parliament should have observer status; we have already explained our position in this regard to the competent committees. It would be difficult for Parliament to try to be an observer at the same time as performing all of its monitoring activities.
In any event, however, Mr President, I should like to reiterate this evening the commitment I have made: I will keep Parliament fully informed of everything that happens, both of the implementation of the concession contract and the public/private partnership and of how we are going to manage the contributions of third countries and their participation in Galileo."@en1
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