Activities of Giles CHICHESTER related to 2009/0070(COD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Earth observation programme (GMES) and its initial operations (2011–2013) PDF (339 KB) DOC (376 KB)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) a geospatial reference component ensuring consistency of GMES data with Member States’ spatial reference data and with the European Spatial Data Infrastructure established by the INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC),
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. GMES services shall make use of existing information sources managed by the public authorities of Member States, wherever possible. Collection of new data that substantially duplicates existing sources shall be contemplated only where existing data sets have been shown to be unsuitable and no acceptable option for upgrading those data sets is available,
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall manage the funds allocated to the activities under this Regulation in accordance with Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 (hereinafter "the Financial Regulation") and shall ensure complementarity and consistency of the GMES programme with other relevant Community policies, instruments and actions, relating in particular to competitiveness and innovation, cohesion, research, transport and competition, the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) programmes, the protection of personal data, Directive 2007/2/EC (INSPIRE), the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) and Community activities in the field of emergency response. The Commission shall be assisted by a Partners’ Board, including representatives of all stakeholder communities: both users and suppliers of space-based observation data, in situ observation data and geospatial reference data;
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall implement the objectives of the GMES data and information policy for the service component, the space component and, the in situ component and the geospatial reference component, in particular by ensuring that grant agreements, procurement contracts and delegation agreements concluded with GMES service providers, operators of GMES infrastructure and data providers are in line with the objectives referred to in paragraph 1. Procurement procedures shall be designed to accommodate the data policies in force in the public authorities of Member States;