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Brexit blow as satellite monitoring centre moves from UK to SpainEuropean commission moves to ensure complete Galileo satnav infrastructure remains in an EU countryLisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent Thu 18 Jan 2018 19.00 GMT
Britain has suffered another Brexit blow after the EU decided to relocate a key satellite monitoring centre from the UK to Spain.
The UK won the contract in 2010 to provide the backup monitoring centre for the Galileo satellite navigation system, which was launched by the EU in late 2016 and will eventually involve 30 satellites.
But after a competitive tender involving six countries, commission officials have now selected Madrid as the new base for the Galileo Security Surveillance Centre to ensure the complete satnav infrastructure remains in an EU country.
“Today the committee of the member states’ representatives met and we can confirm that the committee voted in favour, by a large majority, of our commission proposal to relocate the centre to Spain,” a spokesperson for the European commission told reporters in Brussels. The decision is expected to be adopted formally next Wednesday.
Galileo went live last year after 17 years in gestation and is designed to provide highly accurate global positioning information for phones, cars, maritime, air, rail and emergency services.
The Spanish government hopes the centre, which will cost about £4m to build, will support up to 100 direct jobs.
The move to Madrid has been made because of legal concerns over the security of Galileo being partly controlled in a non-EU country.
Britain will stay a participant in Galileo, but non-EU member countries are excluded from participating in security aspects.
“Given the overriding importance for the Galileo programme of maintaining the business continuity of the backup site, it is necessary that the UK backup site … is transferred to a location in the EU27,” the EC spokesperson said. (...)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/18/brexit-blow-as-satellite-monitoring-centre-moves-from-uk-to-spain