European GNSS Agency

  

Prague, Czech Republic

July 12, 2004

The Agency for the European GNSS (GSA English European GNSS Agency) is an agency of the European Union. It supports the European Commission's tasks as satellite navigation, abbreviated GNSS. In 2007 she took over the tasks of the Galileo Joint Undertaking ( GJU). The GJU was a joint venture between the European Commission and ESA, which should inter alia, prepare the construction of the Galileo satellite navigation system. Today, she runs through the European satellite navigation programs and monitors the projects Galileo and EGNOS. Its main tasks arising from Article 16 of Regulation No 683/ 2008 of 9 July 2008 and are:

  • Perform the safety-related accreditation of the systems and to take on the establishment and operation of the Galileo security monitoring center, as well as
  • The necessary preparations to meet the commercialization of the systems in terms of smooth operation.

Legal basis

Already in 2004, was decided by the Council of the European Union, Council Regulation No 302/93 of 8 February 1993, the establishment of the GSA. As part of the change of responsibilities, as well as on the financing of the tasks and the current name of the agency were last set by Regulation No 912/2010 of 22 September 2010.

Seat

The seat of the GSA was first provisionally in Brussels before Prague was defined as the site in December 2010.

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