{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-621/annex/division-4/division-4.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-621/annex/division-4/division-4.3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/621",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/621 of 20 April 2018 on the technical specifications for the Copernicus space component pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 377/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-621",
  "path": "annex/division/4/division/4.3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.3",
  "heading": "Procurement of data from Copernicus Contributing Missions",
  "text": "Licensing conditions for data shall be negotiated with contributing mission data providers for data that needs to be procured. These licensing conditions could depart from the open data policy.\nData procurement activities shall be under the responsibility of ESA and shall focus on providing Earth Observation data from national or international missions, both private and institutional. CORE Datasets shall be procured on the basis of pre-defined specifications while ADDITIONAL datasets shall be procured through a quota mechanism and bulk agreements with data providers for the provision of data within a financial envelope.\nProcurement activities shall include:\n(a) analysis of the requirements, derivation of specifications for data procurement and the selection of the relevant providers;\n(b) procurement of the actual data on the basis of licenses or resource buy;\n(c) integration/de-integration of Contributing Missions into the Copernicus Space Component ground infrastructure;\n(d) harmonisation and homogenous provision of data even in cases of large collections of data from different missions.\nProcured datasets may include data from the following contributing missions (non-exhaustive lists, full list available for http://spacedata.copernicus.eu): Pleiades 1 A/B, Deimos-2, Worldview-1/2, Radarsat-2, TerraSAR-X, COSMO-Skymed (1/2/3/4), RISAT-1, Proba-V, GeoEye-1, SPOT-5/6/7 etc.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/621/annex/division/4/division/4.3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:07.904759+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}