European GNSS Agency
The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency is the agency of the European Union that aims to ensure that essential public interests are properly defended and represented in connection with satellite navigation programmes of the union: Galileo and European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service. The aim of the former is to provide a modern European alternative to the established American system, GPS.
Established in 2004 and based in Prague, Czech Republic, since 1 September 2012, the agency is responsible for managing and monitoring the use of the program funds. It will help the European Commission deal with any matters relating to satellite radio-navigation.
In June 2018, the European Commission proposed that the agency be transformed into an EU Agency for the Space Programme, with oversight of space situational awareness.
As of 2019, it has been proposed by the European Commission that the agency would be transformed and expanded into the European Union Agency for the Space Programme.
