LegalizeCommission 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 (Text with EEA relevance)
Article 1
The location of the ground-based infrastructure of the system established under the Galileo programme and the necessary measures to ensure that it functions correctly shall be set out in the Annex.
Article 2
Implementing Decision 2012/117/EU shall be repealed.
Article 3
This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
ANNEX
| Title | Location and measures taken to ensure smooth functioning |
|---|---|
| Ground-based centres | Ground-based centres |
| Two Galileo Control Centres (GCC) | The two control centres were created between 2009 and 2014 in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany) and Fucino (Italy) respectively. They should be the subject of two agreements, to be signed with Germany and Italy, respectively. |
| Galileo Security Monitoring Centre (GSMC) | The Galileo security monitoring center, split into two locations, was deployed in France and Spain. Work to set up the site in France ended in 2017 and is the subject of an agreement signed in 2013 with France. Work to set up the site in Spain ended in 2019 (early configuration) and is the subject of an agreement signed in 2019 with Spain. |
| GNSS Service Centre (GSC) | The GNSS Service Centre is being deployed in stages in Madrid (Spain) and its back-up site in Toulouse (France). They shall be subject of two hosting agreements to be signed with Spain and France respectively. |
| SAR Service Centre | The Search and Rescue (SAR) Service Centre was set up in Toulouse (France) between 2012 and 2014 and its back-up is being deployed in Madrid (Spain). They shall be subject of two hosting agreements to be signed with France and Spain respectively. |
| Galileo Reference Centre (GRC) | The Galileo Reference Centre was set up in Noordwijk (the Netherlands). Work started in 2015 and ended in 2017. It is the subject of an agreement signed with the Netherlands in 2016. |
| ILS Centre | The Integrated Logistics Support Centre (centre ILS) was set up in Transinne (Belgium) in 2017 and is the subject of an agreement signed in 2018 with Belgium. |
| In-orbit testing station | The in-orbit testing station was set up in 2010 in Redu (Belgium). |
| Remote ground-based stations | Remote ground-based stations |
| TTC stations | TTC stations were set up between 2010 and 2017 in Kiruna (Sweden), Kourou (France), Réunion (France), Nouméa (New Caledonia) and Papeete (French Polynesia). A TTC station is to be set up in Fucino (Italy) and in Redu (Belgium) in 2025. |
| GSS stations | GSS stations were created between 2009 and 2020 in the Azores (Portugal), Fucino (Italy), Jan Mayen (Norway), Kerguelen, Kiruna (Sweden), Kourou (France), Réunion (France), Nouméa (New Caledonia), Papeete (French Polynesia), Redu (Belgium), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Svalbard (Norway), Troll (Norway), Wallis (Wallis and Futuna). A GSS station is to be set up in Bonaire (the Netherlands) in 2025. |
| ULS stations | ULS stations were created,between 2009 and 2011 in Tahiti (French Polynesia), Kourou (France), Réunion (France), New Caledonia and Svalbard (Norway). The creation of these ULS stations was the subject of contracts concluded between the European Space Agency and service providers. |
| SAR stations | ‘Meolut’ SAR stations were created in 2012 and 2013 in Makarios (Cyprus), Maspalomas (Spain) and Svalbard (Norway) as well as in 2021 in Réunion (France). SAR stations with a SAR reference beacon were created in Makarios (Cyprus), Maspalomas (Spain), Santa Maria (Portugal), Toulouse (France), Svalbard (Norway), and Greenland (Denmark). |
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