The marine perspective of Copernicus Michael Rohn Torsten

The marine perspective of Copernicus Michael Rohn, Torsten Riedlinger European Commission - GMES unit --Integrated Maritime Policy Expert Group 11 December 2012 1

What is Copernicus? It does Global Monitoring for Environment and Security VP Tajani announced new name this morning! The European Earth monitoring programme - Providing reliable information on the environment and security to public users - Long term and operational - Building on existing assets and capabilities - Complemented by dedicated assets (e. g. Sentinels) - Contributes to growth and job through open data policy to downstream sector 2

System view Service lines Ø Land Ø Atmosphere Ø Marine Ø Emergency Ø Security Ø Climate Change 3

Marine environment monitoring Objective: To provide information on the state of physical ocean and marine ecosystems for the global ocean and the European regional areas. Monitoring and forecast, plus reanalysis of past years on • • • Currents Temperature Salinity Sea ice Sea level Surface winds • Biogeochemistry 5

Current implementation as pilot service • Outside GIO as FP 7 research project My. Ocean-2 • FP 7 -SPACE-2011: Prototype Operational Continuity for the GMES Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Service • 59 participants from 28 different countries • 41, 2 M€ total cost (28 M€ EC contribution) • From April 2012 to September 2014 • Coordinator: Mercator Océan • http: //www. myocean. eu. org 6

Main building blocks • Thematic Assembly Centres • Marine Forecasting Centres 7

GMES: from research to operations Copernicus Timeline Operational service GMES Initial Operations Copernicus Marine Service GMES User Forum RTD IG Mer. Sea GMES User Forum Workshop My. Ocean 2011 My. Ocean -II 2014 2019 2020 8

Programmatic base Ø Regulation GMES & its initial operations (GIO) Ø Communication COM(2011)831 Ø New EU Financial Regulation Funding Ø Commission (EC) proposes GMES to be funded outside the MFF Ø European Parliament (EP) recommends it inside the MFF Ø No consensus position in the Council Ø Next EU summit on MFF expected on February 2013 9

Next steps Ø Decision on the budget (MFF) Ø Debates + adoption by EP and Council in codecision Ø Delegation Agreements to be concluded (and procurement) Ø Start of the operations in Summer 2014 Ø It changed its name to Copernicus today 10