Switzerland joins the EU's Galileo satellite navigation programme

EU News 533/2013

IP/13/1292
Brussels, 18 December 2013

Today Switzerland signed a cooperation agreement to participate in the Galileo and EGNOS programmes – the pillars of the EU's Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Switzerland will now fully financially participate in the programmes, and will retroactively contribute €80 million for the period 2008-2013. The agreement, signed in Brussels, also covers cooperation in areas such as security, export control, standards, certification and industrial cooperation.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1292_en.htm?locale=en

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