Cooperation Of ESA And EU Considering Current Challenges During Implementations Of Common Projects

Paper number

IAC-07-E6.1.10

Author

Dr. Annette Froehlich, University of Cologne, Germany

Year

2007

Abstract

In light of the coexistence of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union (EU) as international platforms of cooperation for European space flight a coherent institutional structure proofs to be the basic prerequisite for effective and successful European collaboration in space. However the current institutional form of European space flight does not allow sufficiently future developments of the European integration in the area of space flight. Additionally, the international competitiveness of the European space industry requires further considerations regarding the institutional structure of European space flight.


Presently the two existing European organisations aim for the benefit for Europe in multiple ways, i.e. by various legal systems. A closer cooperation between ESA and EU poses questions concerning both institutional aspects (which kind of model of cooperation with respect to the inhomogeneous member structure of ESA and EU) and substantive law. 

Concerning the institutional aspects, several models have to be evaluated. The creation of institutional requirements for the integration of military aspects in European space polities plays also an important role. Furthermore every institutionalised form of cooperation has to provide clear and efficient procedures for decision making and financing. Recent challenges during the implementation of Galileo and GMES have to be analysed and considered for the harmonised approach of ESA-EU.

In addition, an integration of ESA in the further frame of the EU raises questions concerning substantive law. How to apply existing legal rules of the EU to ESA? Of special interest are the provisions of competition law, state aid law and public procurement law of the EU which will be also be covered in this paper.

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