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28 February 2008
| ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain (right) and European Commission Director General for Enterprise & Industry Heinz Zourek signed in Brussels an agreement which establishes the allocation of an EC budget to ESA as a contribution to the implementation of the GMES Space Component (GSC).
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| | | | | ESA and EC signed today in Brussels an agreement for the allocation of an EC budget as a contribution to the implementation of the GMES Space Component (GSC).
From left to right: Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Mr Paul Weissenberg, European Commission Director/Coordinator for Aerospace, GMES, Security and Defence with the DG Enterprise & Industry, Mr Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes, and Mr Heinz Zourek, European Commission Director General for Enterprise & Industry.
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| | | | | Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme.
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