THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REGIME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PHASE OF GALILEO

摘要

The European Union is increasingly aware of the strategic, political and economic importance of space activities. Despite the early absence of an explicit competence in such domain, the European Commission started at the end of the 90s’ to carry on two space-related flagship programmes: Galileo, the upcoming European global navigation satellite system, and GMES/Copernicus, a complex set of structures aimed at achieving autonomous, multi-level operational Earth observation capacity.