Division 4.1 General

‘Copernicus Contributing Missions’ (CCM) shall mean space-based Earth observation missions providing data to Copernicus complementing data from the dedicated missions.

Data from CCMs shall be obtained by Copernicus to fulfil the data requirements as described in section 1, whenever these cannot be met by the Sentinels.

Data from CCMs could be either free of charge or could be procured under specific licensing conditions.

For datasets under restrictive dissemination conditions by the CCMs, the following user categories shall be applied:

1. (a)

   Copernicus Services;

2. (b)

   Institutions and bodies of the Union;

3. (c)

   Participants to a research project financed under the Union research programmes;

4. (d)

   Public authorities of EU Member States and Copernicus Participating States;

5. (e)

   International Organisations and international NGOs;

6. (f)

   The general Public.