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EU budget for 2021-2027: Significant progress on new #EUSpaceProgramme, but not there yet

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The European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have made significant progress in negotiations on the EU Space Programme, which will help maintain and further enhance the EU's leadership in space.

The Commission however expressed strong reservations on a number of important institutional issues. The Commission proposed the new EU Space Programme in June 2018 as part of the EU-long-term budget for the years 2021-2027. The new Space Programme will bring all existing and new space activities under the umbrella of a single programme. In addition to maintaining existing infrastructure and services, the new programme will foster a strong and innovative space industry, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups and pioneering businesses.

It will encourage scientific and technical progress and support EU action in areas such as high performance computing, climate change or security. The programme will preserve the EU's autonomous, reliable and cost-effective access to space. To achieve all these objectives, the Commission has proposed a unified and simplified system of governance. Efficient decision-making is vital so that all EU space activities are rolled out on time and on budget. The Commission will continue to be responsible for managing the overall programme.

The intergovernmental European Space Agency (ESA), given its unmatched expertise, will remain a major partner in the technical and operational implementation of the EU space programme. The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency, to be renamed the 'EU Agency for the Space Programme', will increasingly support the exploitation and market uptake of EU space activities and play an increased role in ensuring the security of all the components of the programme.

The Commission holds the view that the final agreement must be prudent in the amount of core tasks to be delegated by the Commission and that subdelegation is not permitted under EU law. The Commission also stresses that the final agreement should recall the need to preserve the EU's interests by ensuring that third countries do not participate in decision-making on the EU Space Programme.

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