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Proceeding contribution from Owen Paterson (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 2 July 2007. It occurred during Debate on European Global Navigation Satellite System.


European Global Navigation Satellite System

That is a ludicrous misinterpretation of what I said. I clearly explained a vision of linking EGNOS with GPS and giving Europe the best and most defined service—down to a metre. Let me address the idea that we are against business. I visited Trafficmaster last week and it now employs 300 people. The jobs are downstream in areas such as e-Call rather than to do with the actual creation of the satellite systems. It supplies 100,000 vehicles and its jobs are downstream and have been created on the back of GPS. The entire Satellic system in Germany is also based on GPS, and it is worth €250 million a month.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
462 c775 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
EU action Navigation Galileo system Global navigation satellite systems Satellite communications
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk