Commission Decision of 5 February 2010 setting up the GMES Partners Board (2010/67/EU)

Article 2 Tasks

The tasks of the Board shall be:

1.

to establish cooperation between Member States bodies and the Commission on questions related to GMES, in order to help ensure coordination of contributions by national and European Union’s activities to GMES, make best use of existing capacities and identify gaps to be addressed at European level;

2.

to assist the Commission in monitoring the coherent implementation of the European Earth Observation Programme (GMES), which includes funding from the Research Framework Programme, for which the Commission is assisted by the Committee established pursuant to Article 8 of Council Decision 2006/971/EC(1), and from other EU funding sources, and which builds on the GMES Space Component programme of the European Space Agency (ESA), the execution of which is monitored by the ESA Programme Board for Earth Observation;

3.

to assist the Commission with the preparation of a strategic implementation framework of the European Earth Observation Programme (GMES), including: (i) indicative annual and multi-annual planning of the EU programme activities; (ii) indicative implementation schemes; (iii) GMES activities cost assessment and preliminary budgetary strategy; and (iv) programme specification and participation rules;

4.

to bring about an exchange of experience and good practice in the field of GMES and Earth observation.

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OJ L 400, 30.12.2006, p. 86.