Activities of David BORRELLI related to 2015/2276(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Space capabilities for European security and defence
Amendments (4)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the dual-use capacity of Galileo and Copernicus, in the form of the Public Regulated Service and the Copernicus security service; stresses that these projects should pay special attention to civil applications, as it befits their overall design; believes this capacity should be fully developed in the next generations, noting especially the need for very high resolution earth observation data (Copernicus) and better precision and encryption (Galileo); calls for sufficient provision in the mid-term review for all satellite systems’ future development;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. WelcomNotes the work to provide the EU with autonomy in governmental satellite communications (GOVSATCOM); calls on the Commission to make, on the basis of beneficiaries’ needs and requirements, a cost-benefit evaluation of different solutions: a system relying on current capabilities with the possibility of integrating future capabilities or the creation of new capacities through a dedicated system; stresses that the final decision should take account of the interests of beneficiaries and industry; considers that the Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) framework could provide a governance model, which by its own technical nature must be conceived in close collaboration with all world States already possessing or developing space capabilities;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Points to the development of SST as a step towards security in space; considers that SST should become an EU programme with its own budgetalls on the Commission to explore possibilities for governance and financing of SST, in coherence with the above stated cooperation goals; invites the Commission to assess the need to take account of space weather and near-Earth objects and to come up with the next steps for SST in order to prepare industry;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need for better coordination of EU space capacities, withreinforced by international cooperation, developing the necessary system architectures and procedures to ensure a proportionate level of security, including data security; considers that EU space capacities dedicated to security and defence could be managed by a specific operational service coordination centre.