This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 January 2021.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 28 April 2021.
For the European Parliament
The President
D. M. SASSOLI
For the Council
The President
A. P. ZACARIAS
(1) Position of the European Parliament of 17 April 2019 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and position of the Council at first reading of 19 April 2021 (not yet published in the Official Journal). Position of the European Parliament of 28 April 2021 (not yet published in the Official Journal).
(2) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 July 2018 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union, amending Regulations (EU) No 1296/2013, (EU) No 1301/2013, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 1304/2013, (EU) No 1309/2013, (EU) No 1316/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) No 283/2014, and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 (OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1).
(3) Regulation (EU) 2021/695 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulations (EU) No 1290/2013 and (EU) No 1291/2013 (see page 1 of this Official Journal).
(4) Regulation (EU) 2021/523 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 March 2021 establishing the InvestEU Programme and amending Regulation (EU) 2015/1017 (OJ L 107, 26.3.2021, p. 30).
(5) Regulation (EU) 2021/697 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 establishing the European Defence Fund and repealing Regulation (EU) 2018/1092 (see page 149 of this Official Journal).
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(10) Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95 of 18 December 1995 on the protection of the European Communities financial interests (OJ L 312, 23.12.95, p. 1).
(11) Council Regulation (Euratom, EC) No 2185/96 of 11 November 1996 concerning on-the-spot checks and inspections carried out by the Commission in order to protect the European Communities’ financial interests against fraud and other irregularities (OJ L 292, 15.11.1996, p. 2).
(12) Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (‘the EPPO’) (OJ L 283, 31.10.2017, p. 1).
(13) Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2017 on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interests by means of criminal law (OJ L 198, 28.7.2017, p. 29).
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(15) Decision No 243/2012/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 establishing a multiannual radio spectrum policy programme (OJ L 81, 21.3.2012, p. 7).
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(18) Decision No 541/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 establishing a Framework for Space Surveillance and Tracking Support (OJ L 158, 27.5.2014, p. 227).
(19) Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/698 of 30 April 2021 on the security of systems and services deployed, operated and used under the Union Space Programme which may affect the security of the Union, and repealing Decision 2014/496/CFSP (see page 178 of this Official Journal).
(20) Council Decision of 26 July 2010 establishing the organisation and functioning of the European External Action Service (2010/427/EU) (OJ L 201, 3.8.2010, p. 30).
(21) Council Decision of 23 September 2013 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information (2013/488/EU) (OJ L 274, 15.10.2013, p. 1).
(22) Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/444 of 13 March 2015 on the security rules for protecting EU classified information (OJ L 72, 17.3.2015, p. 53).
(23) Regulation (EU) 2019/452 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2019 establishing a framework for the screening of foreign direct investments into the Union (OJ L 79 I, 21.3.2019, p. 1).
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(26) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/224 of 8 February 2017 setting out the technical and operational specifications allowing the commercial service offered by the system established under the Galileo programme to fulfil the function referred to in Article 2(4)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1285/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 34, 9.2.2017, p. 36).
(27) Regulation (EU) No 377/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 establishing the Copernicus Programme and repealing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 (OJ L 122, 24.4.2014, p. 44).
(28) Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES) and its initial operations (2011 to 2013) (OJ L 276, 20.10.2010, p. 1).
(29) Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) (OJ L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1).
(30) Directive 2003/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the re-use of public sector information (OJ L 345, 31.12.2003, p. 90).
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(32) Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).
(33) Decision taken by common accord between the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States of 10 December 2010 on the location of the seat of the European GNSS Agency (2010/803/EU) (OJ L 342, 28.12.2010, p. 15).
(34) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/413 of 18 March 2016 determining the location of the ground-based infrastructure of the system established under the Galileo programme and setting out the necessary measures to ensure that it functions smoothly, and repealing Implementing Decision 2012/117/EU (OJ L 74, 19.3.2016, p. 45).
(35)
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(36) Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 of 17 December 2020 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 (OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 11).
(37) Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/443 of 13 March 2015 on Security on the Commission (OJ L 72, 17.3.2015, p. 41).
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(44) Council Directive 2008/114/EC of 8 December 2008 on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection (OJ L 345, 23.12.2008, p. 75).
(45) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1406 of 31 July 2017 determining the location of the ground-based infrastructure of the EGNOS system (OJ L 200, 1.8.2017, p. 4).
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(51) Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).
ANNEX
KEY INDICATORS
Key indicators shall structure the monitoring of the Programme performance towards its objectives referred to in Article 4, with a view to minimising administrative burdens and costs.
1.
To that end, for annual reporting, data shall be collected as regards the following set of key indicators for which implementation details, such as metrics, figures and associated nominal values and thresholds, including quantitative data and qualitative case studies, according to applicable mission requirements and expected performance, shall be defined in the agreements concluded with the entrusted entities:
1.1.
Specific objective referred to in point (a) of Article 4(2)
Indicator 1: Accuracy of navigation and timing services provided by Galileo and EGNOS separately
Indicator 2: Availability and continuity of services provided by Galileo and EGNOS separately
Indicator 3: EGNOS services geographical coverage and number of EGNOS procedures published (both APV-I and LPV-200)
Indicator 4: Union user satisfaction with respect to Galileo and EGNOS services
Indicator 5: Share of Galileo and EGNOS enabled receivers in the worldwide and the EU Global Navigation Satellite Systems/ Satellite Based Augmentation System (GNSS/SBAS) receivers market.
1.2.
Specific objective referred to in point (b) of Article 4(2)
Indicator 1: Number of Union users of Copernicus Services, Copernicus data, and Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) providing, where possible, information such as the type of user, geographical distribution and sector of activity
Indicator 2: Where applicable, number of activations of Copernicus Services requested or served
Indicator 3: Union user satisfaction with respect to Copernicus Services and DIAS
Indicator 4: Reliability, availability and continuity of the Copernicus Services and Copernicus data stream
Indicator 5: Number of new information products delivered in the portfolio of each Copernicus Service
Indicator 6: Amount of data generated by the Copernicus Sentinels
1.3.
Specific objective referred to in point (c) of Article 4(2)
Indicator 1: Number of users of SSA component providing, where possible, information such as the type of user, geographical distribution and sector of activity
Indicator 2: Availability of Services
1.4.
Specific objective referred to in point (d) of Article 4(2)
Indicator 1: Number of GOVSATCOM users providing, where possible, information such as the type of user, geographical distribution and sector of activity
Indicator 2: Availability of Services
1.5.
Specific objective referred to in point (e) of Article 4(2)
Indicator 1: Number of launches for the Programme (including numbers by type of launchers)
1.6.
Specific objective referred to in point (f) of Article 4(2)
Indicator 1: Number and location of space hubs in the Union
Indicator 2: Share of SMEs established in the Union as a proportion of the total value of the contracts relating to the Programme
2.
The evaluation referred to in Article 102 shall take into account additional elements such as:
2.1.
Performance of competitors in the areas of navigation and Earth observation
2.2.
User uptake of Galileo and EGNOS services
2.3.
Integrity of EGNOS services
2.4.
Uptake of Copernicus Services by Copernicus core users
2.5.
Number of Union or Member State policies exploiting or benefiting from Copernicus
2.6.
Analysis of the autonomy of the SST sub-component and of the level of independence of the Union in this area
2.7.
State-of-play of networking for the activities of NEO sub-component
2.8.
Assessment of GOVSATCOM capacities as regards user needs as referred to in Articles 69 and 102
2.9.
User satisfaction of the SSA and GOVSATCOM services
2.10.
Share of Ariane and Vega launches in the total market based on publicly available data
2.11.
Development of the downstream sector measured, when available, by the number of new companies using Union space data, information and services, jobs created and turnover, by Member State, using surveys of the Commission (Eurostat) when available
2.12.
Development of the Union space upstream sector measured, when available, by number of jobs created and turnover by Member State and the global market share of European space industry, using surveys of the Commission (Eurostat) when available