The ceremony for the exchange of Accession Agreements between Poland and ESA took place on 13 September 2012, at the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, with the participation of Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Waldemar Pawlak, Polish Minister of Economy, and Grażyna Henclewska, Under Secretary of State in the Polish Ministry of Economy. Poland
will become the 20th ESA Member State.