Signing the Copernicus Agreement

On 28 October 2014 the European Commission and ESA signed an Agreement of over €3 billion to manage and implement the Copernicus ‘space component’ between 2014 and 2021.  The Agreement was signed in Brussels by Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General of the EC’s Directorate General Enterprise and Industry (left), and ESA’s Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain (right).