Activities of Michel REIMON related to 2015/2276(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Space capabilities for European security and defence - Space market uptake - European space industrial policy (debate) DE
Amendments (7)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Insists that the provision of Galileo services must be consistent with the principle that Galileo is a civil system under civil control, and that all uses thereof must comply with international law, the UN Charter and the Lisbon Treaty;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. WelcomNotes the work to provide the EU with autonomy in governmental satellite communications (GOVSATCOM); calls on the Commission to make, on the basis of beneficiaries’real needs and requirements, a cost-benefit evaluation of different solutions: a system relying on current capabilities with the possibility of integrating future capabilities or the creation of new capacities through a dedicated system; stresses that the final decision should take account of the interests of beneficiaries and industrygeneral public interest; considers that the Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) framework could provide a governance model; calls for resilient, encrypted and secure communications to be at the basis of the analysis; underlines the need to diminish the reliance on non EU suppliers of equipment and services;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points to the development of SST as a step towards securitygood initiative in space; considers that SST should become an EU programme with its own budget; invites the Commission to assess the need to take account of space weather and near-Earth objects and to come up with the next steps for SST in order to prepare industryoperation; invites the Commission to assess the need to evolve it towards becoming an EU programme with its own budget and cover also the space weather and near-Earth objects;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Concerned by the high costs incurred by Galileo and Copernicus, underlines the need to develop policies and research capabilities in order to provide future applications and develop a competitive European industry, capable of commercial success based on a healthy economic environment and not depending on Union or Member State budgets;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for better coordination of EU space capacities, with the necessary system architectures and procedures to ensure a proportionate level of security, including data security; considers that EU space capacities dedicated to security and defence could be managed by a specific operational service coordination centre; considers that EU space structures are currently sufficient and should be carefully developed.
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to assess whether European programs are reliable in crisis situations and appropriate governance structures are in place in order to manage them in such an event; expresses concerns over: data and communication security; difficulties in gaining access to data; and integration of space data in crisis relief operations;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Expresses concerns about the reliance of the European space programs on non- European data and data related services and the vulnerability of the PRS and key space infrastructure to interference from other countries with space capacities, whether or not they are EU allies.