Annexes to SEC(2011)1447 - European Global Navigation Satellite System Impact Assesment Executive Summary

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dossier SEC(2011)1447 - European Global Navigation Satellite System Impact Assesment Executive Summary.
document SEC(2011)1447 EN
date November 30, 2011
agreements concluded in the framework of the GNSS programmes will provide for supervision and financial control by it. The focus in all monitoring and evaluation mechanisms will be on minimising programme cost overruns and delays in delivering services. To do this the Commission will propose a strategic framework listing the main measures, estimated budget and timetable by 30 June 2014, an annual work programme with detailed measures and indicators, an annual implementation report evaluating the fulfilment of these measures and an interim evaluation focusing on quantitative and qualitative results achieved by 30 June 2017, in time to prepare the next multi-annual financial framework.

In addition to these standard measures, the Commission will, when exercising its powers of political supervision over the Galileo and EGNOS programmes, improve the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms over the programme management entity by requesting detailed annual management plans and implementation reports, by steering regular programme progress meetings and by carrying out financial and technological audits.

In addition, programmes monitoring should involve Member States, for example by using their technical capabilities to provide input on technical monitoring of the programmes and to propose key performance indicators against which the programmes will be evaluated.

Lastly, in the day-to-day management, the Commission will propose a risk management mechanism and management tools to minimise the probability of programme cost overruns based on better cost estimation, taking stock of previous experience and actual system implementation.

[1]               The White House, Office of the Press Secretary. Press briefing by Assistant Secretary of Transportation, Gene Conti, 1 May 2000.

[2]               COM(2010) 308 of 14.6.2010, Impact assessment, accompanying document to the Communication of the European Commission on Action Plan on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Applications.

[3]               Council Resolution on the European contribution to the development of a Global Navigation Satellite System

(GNSS) of 19 December 1994.

[4]               A detailed analysis was given in the Commission Communication on the status quo of the Galileo and EGNOS programmes published in 2007 (COM(2007) 261 final and COM(2007) 534/2).

[5]               Regulation (EC) No 683/2008 on further implementation of the Galileo and EGNOS programmes.

[6]               COM(2011) 500 of 29.6.2011 ‘A Budget for Europe 2020’.

[7]               OJ EU C 83/47 of 30.3.2010.

[8]               OJ EU L 196/1 of 24.7.2008.

[9]               OJ EU C 83/124 Official Journal of the European Union 30.3.2010.

[10]             Communication from the Commission COM(2010) 2020 of 3 Mars 2010 on ‘Europe 2020 — A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth’, p15.

[11]             The ground infrastructure comprises over 50 ground stations around the world.

[12]             These simulations are dependent on a number of assumptions that will be updated according to how the system will actually perform once deployed, e.g. Orbit Determination and Time Synchronisation (ODTS) accuracy.

[13]             This table is based on the information available in September 2011 from the European Space Agency and is deliberately simplified.

[14]             Potential revenue generated by the PRS will depend on political choices to be made.