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"Mr President, honourable Members, I believe that space policy is a priority in my mandate as a Commissioner, both as regards the services that can be provided and which are already beginning to be provided to the EU’s citizens, and because I believe that the sector of industry and enterprises – since there are thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises operating in this sector – is at the heart of what we call the third industrial revolution. What I mean by that is industrial policy of a kind that can enable Europe to focus its growth and development on the internal market and, therefore, the real economy.
However, as things stand, there are problems linked to the budget. That is the starting point for the Commission’s choice. I must say that we believe so much in European space policy that in the financial framework, we have decided, from the large package of EUR 80 billion earmarked for research and innovation, to invest a significant amount in research and development in the space sector. This is therefore an added value that we wish to give to space policy as a whole.
We need your support for this strategy and it seems to me that the speeches which followed Mr Patriciello’s report are indeed all supportive. I believe that cooperation between the European Parliament and the Commission on space policy in the weeks, months and years ahead will continue to be strong and I believe that we will all be able to focus on the same objectives.
Concrete results have been obtained. I thank Mr Patriciello for the work that he has done together with his fellow Members and I thank Parliament as a whole, as well as Mr Prodi, for his strong support for the Commission’s policy. We are in perfect harmony when we call for a truly competitive space policy for the European Union.
As I was saying, significant results have been achieved in recent months. The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is beginning to be operational. In October, we launched Galileo’s first two operational satellites from Kourou in French Guiana. On the day of the launch itself, I started the procedure for the purchase of eight new satellites and, on 1 February, I will announce the results of the procurement procedure for the purchase of further Galileo satellites. So, this timescale and adherence to the forecasts have made it possible to save approximately EUR 500 million as compared with the forecasts made at the beginning of 2011 to the interinstitutional group and to this Parliament in the document on space policy that we presented.
Galileo is progressing, and it is my intention to make Galileo’s services operational by the end of 2014 and to have the full system with 30 satellites, seeking to save as much money as possible and adhering to the deadline of the end of 2020.
Mr President, honourable Members, we provide for investments of approximately EUR 7 billion for the implementation of Galileo in the proposed financial forecasts that we have presented to Parliament and the Council. That is for implementation; approximately EUR 1 billion or so is for the launch of all the satellites and the rest is for maintenance and the full implementation of services, bearing in mind that the saving, once Galileo becomes operational, will be approximately EUR 90 billion.
I have also received Mr Patriciello’s message concerning Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES). The Commission has adopted a communication, has made a proposal, and we believe that GMES should go forward. However, we have proposed setting up an
financing fund outside the EU budget, but within the EU. This would be a special agreement between the 27 Member States.
I also addressed this issue at the most recent Space Council, and I have spoken about it to the Competitiveness Council. Why have we made this proposal? It is because we know the situation of the budget. The European Commission and Parliament wished to see more ambitious choices by the Member States concerning the budget but, unfortunately, the response was not what we were expecting or hoping for.
The outcome reached unfortunately means that we cannot include all the actions that we want to implement between 2014 and 2020 within the EU’s budget. That is why, in addition to being convinced of the importance of GMES as part of a European space policy, GMES, let me remind you, also enables us to strengthen our international connections.
I have been through the signing of some agreements with countries in Latin America regarding space policy. During the Belgian Presidency, we did a lot of work with the African Union and we are continuing to do so on space policy, on GMES, and on observation of the earth."@en1
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