19.11.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 309/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES) by establishing registration and licensing conditions for GMES users and defining criteria for restricting access to GMES dedicated data and GMES service information (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, ments (*) adopted in the context of the Commission Communication of 26 August 2010 entitled ‘A Digital Agenda for Europe’ (°). Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, (3)  Registration and licensing conditions for GMES users should be established and criteria for restricting access to GMES dedicated data and GMES service information Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 of the should be defined. The access conditions of other data European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September and information uﬁed as inputs to GMES services should 2010 on the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES) be defined by their providers. and its initial operations (2011 to 2013) (!), and in particular Article 9(2) thereof, (4 The Commission, in its Communication of 28 October 2009 entitled ‘Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES): Challenges and Next Steps for the Space Whereas: Component’ (%), indicated its intention to pursue the implementation of a free and open access policy for the Sentinels. (1)  GMES data and information policy should be consistent With other relf;vant Qnion policies, inst-rumen'.[s and (5)  Access to Sentinel data should be free, full and open, in actions. In part1culf1r, It should be compliant with the line with the Joint Principles for a Sentinel Data Policy () requirements of Directive 2007/2/EC of the European adopted by the Programme Board for Earth Observation Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 estab- (PB-EO) of the European Space Agency. lishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) (). This policy should respect the rights and principles recognized in the (6)  Third countries or international  organisations Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, in particular contributing to the operations of GMES under Article 7 the right for private life, the protection of personal data, of Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 should have access to the right to intellectual property, the freedom of arts and GMES dedicated data and GMES service information science and the freedom to conduct business. under the same conditions which apply to Member States. () GMES data and information policy should strongly (7)  As indicated in recital 28 of Regulation (EU) No contribute to the open data policy promoted by the 911/2010, GMES should be considered as a European Union, initiated by Directive 2003/98/EC of the contribution to building the Global Earth Observation European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November System of Systems (GEOSS). Therefore, the GMES open 2003 on the re-use of public sector information (°) and dissemination should be fully compatible with GEOSS reinforced by Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of data sharing principles. 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission docu- 276, 20.10.2010, p. 1. () oL () () OJ L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1. ©) OJ L 345, 31.12.2003, p. 90. 0) OM(2010) 245 final/2 of 26 August 2010. OM(2009) 589 final. ESA/PB-EO(2009)98, rev. 1.