Bulletin n. 1/2009
July 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Yakemtchouk Romain
    La navigation par satellite – Les systèmes européens GALILEO et EGNOS
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 526, mars ,  2009 ,  154-162
    The world market of satellite navigation (GNSS) is becoming a significant driver of the world economy: it is one of the fastest growing high technology markets. It is also the largest industrial project ever to be set up on a European scale. The assignment of the joint company incorporated on May 21, 2002, GALILEO, is to handle the management of that programme during the 2002-2005 period. The Council suggested on April 21, 2005, that the EGNOS programme, which uses the emissions from the American system GPS and from the Russian system Glonass, be included in that project. The GALILEO development and programme approval phase should end in 2010, its deployment phase would end in 2013, and it is during that year that its operating phase should start. GALILEO will offer five services: an open service, free to the user, supplying positioning data; the back up service for the air, maritime and railroad sectors; a commercial service; a governmental service with a high protection level; an aid and rescue service. The major problem of GALILEO is its competitive viability and its profit capacity versus the American GPS, or even the Chinese and Russian systems, which are improving their business.
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