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

2. 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

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

4. 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 FP7 research project MyOcean-2
FP7-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

6. Main building blocks Thematic Assembly Centres
Marine Forecasting Centres

7. Copernicus Marine Service
GMES: from research to operations
Copernicus Timeline
Operational service
GMES
Initial Operations
Copernicus Marine Service
GMES User Forum
RTD
GMES User Forum
Workshop IG
MerSea
MyOcean
MyOcean -II
2011
2014
2019
2020

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

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