1. The NEO sub-component may support the following activities:
(a)
the mapping of Member States’ capacities for detecting and monitoring near-Earth objects;
(b)
the promotion of the networking of Member States’ facilities and research centres;
(c)
the development of the service referred to in paragraph 2;
(d)
the development of a routine rapid response service able to characterise newly discovered near-Earth objects;
(e)
the creation of a European catalogue of near-Earth objects.
2. The Commission, in its field of competence, may put in place procedures to coordinate, with the involvement of the appropriate UN bodies, the actions of the Union and national public authorities concerned with civil protection in the event a near-Earth object is found to be approaching Earth.