Toulouse, the 27th of February



Galileo : US - EC negotiations outputs.

After 3 years of difficult negotiation, an important step has been reached
the 25th of February 2004. Brussels and Washington agree on the principle of
the interoperability between the US military navigation satellite system GPS
and the EU civil navigation satellite system Galileo.



Galileo will be independent but the two systems should be compatible. This
means that all the civil users in the world will be able to use the two
systems easily, with only one receiver. It should be fully transparent for
the users. .../...



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