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===Telecommunications and space===
{{Main
 | Telecommunications in the European Union
 | European Union Space Programme
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{{Further|European Union roaming regulations}}
{{See also
 | Agency for Support for BEREC
 | European Union Agency for the Space Programme
 | European Space Agency
}}

Mobile communication [[European Union roaming regulations|roaming charges]] are abolished throughout the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

[[File:Galileo Control Centre at the DLR Oberpfaffenhofen site.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[Galileo (satellite navigation)|Galileo]] control centre in [[Oberpfaffenhofen]], Germany]]

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The [[European Union Agency for the Space Programme]] (EUSPA), headquartered in [[Prague]], Czech Republic, was established in 2021 to manage the [[European Union Space Programme]] in order to implement the pre-existing ''European Space Policy'', established on 22 May 2007 between the EU and the [[European Space Agency]] (ESA), known collectively as the ''European Space Council''. This was the first common political framework for space activities established by the EU. Each member state has pursued to some extent their own national space policy, though often co-ordinating through the ESA. [[Günter Verheugen]], the [[European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry]], has stated that even though the EU is "a world leader in the technology, it is being put on the defensive by the United States and Russia and that it only has about a 10-year technological advantage on China and India, which are racing to catch up."

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[[Galileo (satellite navigation)|Galileo]] is a [[Satellite navigation|global navigation satellite system]] (GNSS) that went live in 2016, created by the EU through the ESA, operated by the EUSPA, with two ground operations centres in [[Fucine Lake|Fucino]], Italy, and [[Oberpfaffenhofen]], Germany. The €10 billion project is named after the Italian astronomer [[Galileo Galilei]]. One of the aims of Galileo is to provide an independent high-precision positioning system so European political and military authorities do not have to rely on the US [[Global Positioning System|GPS]], or the Russian [[GLONASS]] systems, which could be disabled or degraded by their operators at any time. The [[European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service]] (EGNOS) is a [[satellite-based augmentation system]] (SBAS) developed by the ESA and [[EUROCONTROL]]. Currently, it supplements the GPS by reporting on the reliability and accuracy of their positioning data and sending out corrections. The system will supplement Galileo in a future version. The [[Copernicus Programme]] is the EU's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed by EUSPA in partnership with ESA. It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity, providing accurate, timely and easily accessible information to, among other things, improve the management of the environment, understand and [[Climate change mitigation|mitigate the effects of climate change]], and ensure civil security.