Delivered-To: igsmail@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov Message-Id: Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:43:08 -0700 To: igsmail@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov, unav_all@ls.unavco.org From: "Ruth E. Neilan" Subject: [IGSMAIL-4960]: GPS-Galileo Agreement 26 June, US-EU Press Releases & Remarks Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-igsmail Precedence: bulk ****************************************************************************** IGS Electronic Mail 01 Jul 11:43:11 PDT 2004 Message Number 4960 ****************************************************************************** Author: R. Neilan, IGS Central Bureau Colleagues - For your information included below are the official press releases, respectively, of the US and EU with respect to the GPS -Galileo accord. The third inclusion below contains the remarks from the signing of the treaty last week in Ireland. Congratulations to the negotiating teams for securing this important agreement! kind regards - Ruth [apologies for multiple postings] ================================================== GPS-Galileo Agreement US press release: http://www.useu.be/ U.S., EU Reach Agreement on Satellite Navigation Services (2004-06-27) At the European Union Summit held June 26 in Ireland, the United States and the European Union reached an agreement covering their satellite navigation services, the U.S. Global Positioning System, and Europe's planned Galileo system. Following is the text of the White House fact sheet: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Shannon, Ireland) For Immediate Release June 26, 2004 FACT SHEET U.S.-EU Summit: Agreement on GPS-Galileo Cooperation Today, the United States and the European Union reached an agreement covering their satellite navigation services, the U.S. Global Positioning System, and Europe's planned Galileo system. The U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) is a constellation of 28 satellites and ground support facilities, used for a wide array of economic, scientific, and military applications. The satellites broadcast signals that can be converted into precise positioning and timing information anywhere in the world. In 1998, the European Union decided to pursue its own satellite navigation system, known as Galileo, which currently is still in its development phase. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, European Commission Vice-President Loyola de Palacio, and Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen signed the Agreement on the Promotion, Provision, and Use of Galileo and GPS Satellite-Based Navigation Systems and Related Applications. This historic agreement protects Allied security interests, while paving the way for an eventual doubling of satellites that will broadcast a common civil signal worldwide, thereby promoting better and more comprehensive service for all users. The agreement ensures that Galileo's signals will not harm the navigation warfare capabilities of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military forces, ensures that both the United States and the European Union can address individual and mutual security concerns, and calls for non-discrimination and open markets in terms of trade in civil satellite navigation-related goods and services. Recognizing the added benefit to civil and commercial users if the two independent systems were compatible and interoperable, the United States and the European Union have shared technical analyses and information, resulting in an agreement to establish a common civil signal. The additional availability, precision, and robustness that will be provided by dual GPS-Galileo receivers lays the foundation for a new generation of satellite-based applications and services, promoting research, development, and investment that will benefit business, science, governments, and recreational users alike. ============================================================ EU Press Release (click on press release): http://europa.eu.int/pol/trans/index_en.htm IP/04/805 Brussels, 28 June 2004 GALILEO and GPS will navigate side by side: EU and US sign final agreement The European Union and the United States concluded an agreement on GALILEO and GPS at the end of the Summit held in Ireland on 26 June 2004. The agreement on the promotion, provision and use of the two satellite-based navigation systems and related applications that was signed by Commission Vice-President Loyola de Palacio and US Secretary of State Colin Powell, will allow each system to work alongside the other without interfering with its counterpart's signals and thus give a huge boost to users worldwide. Vice-President Loyola de Palacio said: "This agreement will allow the European project GALILEO to become the world standard for civil and commercial use of satellite navigation; it will offer the best possible level of services to all users". After more than 4 years of intensive talks, the results for GALILEO, and, more importantly, users of GALILEO and GPS worldwide, are highly satisfactory. The agreement confirms that GPS and GALILEO services will be fully compatible and interoperable and therefore makes the joint use of GPS and GALILEO and the manufacturing of equipment much easier and cheaper. GALILEO has now become the de facto world standard of open signals in the GNSS mass market. GALILEO will not need to rely on a "GALILEO-only" user community; instead it will be instantly accessible and used by millions of people who today use GPS. This means that all users of satellite radio-navigation will be able to simultaneously, with only one receiver, use one or the other of the two systems, or both at the same time. In addition of being the first civil system specifically dedicated to civil users, the additional feature of GALILEO is its commercial nature. The agreement with the United States does confirm the quick introduction of GALILEO in all user segments (mass market and professional) throughout the world. The market potential is indeed considerable: 3 billion receivers and revenues of some ¤ 250 billion per year by 2010 worldwide, and the creation of more than 150.000 high qualified jobs in Europe alone. The agreement represents a major asset for the business case of the future GALILEO operator expected to finance at least two-third of the deployment of the system (¤ 1.4 billion), one-third being financed by the public sector (¤ 700 million)* . Such promising prospects will intensify the current competition between the three pre-selected consortia of companies which are running to get the concession to operate the system. Results of this competition which is run by, the Galileo Joint Undertaking (the programme's management-arm), will be disclosed by the Commission in October in view of a decision by the Council in December to move to the successive phases of the programme and open the way for the conclusion of the concession contract in 2005. Finally, this agreement allows the last system specifications to be set, a crucial aspect for the swift operation of GALILEO. After the current development phase (2 satellites under construction will be launched by the end of 2005 and 2 shortly after), the deployment of the remaining 24 satellites (and related ground stations) is expected by 2008, date at which the system should start operation. For more information about GALILEO, please visit: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/galileo http://www.esa.int/export/esaSA/navigation.html http://www.galileoju.com *The total cost of Galileo amounts to ¤ 3.2 billion, respectively ¤ 1.1 billion for the development phase (2002-2005), fully financed by the public sector (half by ESA and half by the Commission) and 2.1 billion for the deployment phase (2006-2007), co-financed by the private (the concession holder) and public sectors (the Commission). ================================================================= Secretary of State Colin Powell hailed the new U.S.-EU agreement on Global Positioning System (GPS)-Galileo cooperation as a "remarkable achievement" at a signing ceremony June 26 in Shannon, Ireland, during the U.S.-EU Summit. The U.S. GPS system consists of satellites broadcasting signals that can be converted into precise positioning and timing information anywhere in the world. In 1998 the European Union decided to develop its own satellite navigation system, which it called "Galileo." The new agreement, Powell said, "manages to balance the competition that is inherent in the commercial dimension of satellite navigational technology with the cooperation necessary for the security dimension." Powell also noted that combined GPS-Galileo capabilities will open up "major opportunities for scientific research and creative engineering, enabling new applications, applications that we haven't even begun to think of yet, and also for the development of new technologies." European Commission Vice President Loyola de Palacio and Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen participated in the signing ceremony as well. Following is the State Department transcript: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman June 29, 2004 REMARKS SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN L. POWELL AT THE SIGNING OF THE GALILEO TREATY June 26, 2004 Dromoland Castle Shannon, Ireland FOREIGN MINISTER COWEN: Good morning, everyone. Secretary of State, Commissioner. I'm delighted to be here with the U.S. Secretary of State Powell and Vice President de Palacio to sign a cooperation agreement between the European and U.S. satellite navigation systems. The Galileo Program is a joint initiative of the European Commission and the European Space Agency, and it's the first global satellite positioning and navigation system designed specifically for civilian use worldwide. It has been in development in the European Union since 1999, and in March of 2002 the European Council decided to complete its development and to prepare for its commercial operation. Today's agreement will allow rapid movement towards that goal. The Commission has estimated that Galileo will create more than 150,000 jobs in Europe alone. This is therefore a project of huge economic and commercial significance and one which will set technological standards globally over the next decade. One of the major messages of this summit has been the crucial nature of our investment relationship and the need to deepen our cooperation in areas of advanced technology. I can think of no better example of this than the Galileo project and the agreement that we are signing today. I would like invite Vice President de Palacio and Secretary Powell to say a few words. EU VICE PRESIDENT DE PALACIO: Thank you, President. The Galileo GPS agreement is good news for satellite navigation worldwide. And I must say that this historic agreement, with this historic agreement we are paving the way for the future of global satellite navigation, and I want to thank all the team who have been working from the U.S. side and from the EU side for the magnificent work they have done which has facilitated this agreement which at the beginning was not the easiest one to be achieved. But nevertheless, we managed, and this is the most important question. I must say that with this agreement, we are going to set the rules of the game for the GPS and Galileo for the coming decades, both systems being fully interoperable, and they will set the world standards in the market through the use of the same open signal. This will allow all users to use in a complementary way both systems with the same receiver. The benefits of satellite navigation will grow significantly. The minister has said already the figures for business. But we must say that we will double the number of navigation satellites to provide a most efficient service to users worldwide. This agreement was a fruitful exercise in transatlantic relations, and today we are confirming our commitment to develop a key technology which will bring significant opportunities for all our common future, and so, once again, building together U.S.-EU, EU-U.S., building for the future worldwide. Thank you. SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you very much, Brian and Loyola. Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to be at this year's historic U.S.-EU summit, the first since the EU's enlargement to 25 members. On behalf of President Bush, I again congratulate Europe on this major accomplishment with the completion of this current phase of expansion. As you know, this also marks the 50th anniversary of formal U.S.-EU relations. That relationship has been characterized by shared principles, common interests and close cooperation. Our tradition of cooperation continues today as I join European Commission Vice President Loyola de Palacio and Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen as signatories to the U.S.-EU agreement on GPS-Galileo cooperation. I, too, would like to thank everyone on both sides of the Atlantic who worked so hard to conclude this agreement. As the Vice President said a moment ago, it's been difficult work, but we never gave it up. We stuck with it, and now we see the results of that hard labor. And particularly it was Vice President de Palacio's vision that set Galileo firmly on its path to becoming a reality. She understood the importance of protecting allied security interests and ensuring that Galileo was compatible with the U.S. Global Positioning System. Her efforts as well as those of the presidency and all the member states have guaranteed a mutually beneficial relationship between our respective satellite navigation services. Thanks to this agreement we will enhance the common benefits of these new technologies. The agreement manages to balance the competition that is inherent in the commercial dimension of satellite navigational technology with the cooperation necessary for the security dimension. This agreement also establishes a framework for ongoing U.S.-EU cooperation in the field of satellite navigation. GPS-Galileo capabilities will open up major opportunities for scientific research and creative engineering, enabling new applications, applications that we haven't even begun to think of yet, and also for the development of new technologies. And the agreement paves the way for the two systems to eventually broadcast a common civil signal, which will double the number, as you heard a moment ago, of satellites working within a compatible framework. This, in turn, will ensure the safety and availability of satellite navigation technology for transportation and recreational users worldwide. I am one of those recreational users. I also have a security interest in GPS technology. I have a GPS system in my Volvo, and I also have used GPS systems in war. In the Gulf War some years ago, in the early '90s, one of my retired general colleagues went on television not knowing what the latest advances in technology were, and said that he was terrified that the American army would go out into the deserts of Kuwait and Iraq and immediately become lost because there were no signposts, no mountains to look at, no places by which one could steer, only to discover that nobody got lost because we had gone out and purchased GPS systems for all of our tanks, and so every soldier on the battlefield knew exactly where he or she was at any particular point in time. We have seen such growth in this technology in the intervening years so that it has become so cheap that anybody can have it, it has become so reliable that it can be used increasingly for scientific, commercial, recreational, every imaginable purpose. We use it for agriculture, we use it to know when to put our crops in the ground now because we can precisely know where to put crops in a particular point of a farm or some cultivated area. We are just now beginning to scratch the capabilities of this technology, and that's why it was so important that the U.S. and the European Union come together and find a compatible way of moving forward. We have found that way. I congratulate Loyola, I congratulate Brian and through Brian all the member states of the European Union for this remarkable achievement. 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