BHO Legal organizes the Legal Session of the upcoming Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2014. We are proud that the organizer of the Summit has tasked us again with the organisation of this session. The Legal Session (Session 6) this year will be held on the 26th March 2014, the second ... Weiterlesen

A Commission report published on 6th February emphasises the importance of the relations with ESA for the implementation of the EU flagship space programmes, Galileo and Copernicus. The report also acknowledges ESA’s key role in them as the agency responsible for research and technological development and the evolution of the ... Weiterlesen

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) invites European industries and European Union (EU) Member State Competent Public Regulated Service (PRS) Authorities to share their views and ideas in support of the adoption of the PRS. Particularly, industries with capabilities to support the development of Galileo PRS user segment technologies (e.g. receivers, ... Weiterlesen

The two commercial satellite fleet operators, SES and Eutelsat, on January 30 said their long-running dispute about rights to 500 megahertz of spectrum over the heart of Europe had been definitively concluded with an SES victory but a less-than-expected cost to Eutelsat. SES will continue to have rights to the ... Weiterlesen

The European Commission is pressuring France and Britain to surrender patents they have secured relating to the Galileo satellite navigation System. The commission wants to avoid a chilling effect on Galileo receiver builders now worried about having to pay royalty or licensing fees. The French and British governments hold patents, which, ... Weiterlesen

The European Commission's effort to set common European regulations on the sale of high-resolution satellite imagery outside Europe has been blocked by the British government. The goal was to create common rules on which a country would be able to receive high-resolution imagery and under what general conditions. The British government ... Weiterlesen

At his annual press conference in Paris on January 17, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain was collected and positive, when he laid out plans of ESA. Dordain made no excuses for ESA's failure to proceed with scheduled Galileo satellite launches last year. He anyway was firm in announcing ESA's new ... Weiterlesen

British regulators approved a licensing regime for the use of Ka-band satellite frequencies on ships and planes. The Ofcom decision was restricted to systems using geostationary-operating satellites. According to Ofcom, Satellite operators, satellite services providers and industry organizations agreed that the ruling should be limited to geostationary-orbiting satellites. License modifications for aeronautical and maritime ... Weiterlesen