Article II: Purpose
The purpose of
the Agency shall be to provide for and to promote, for exclusively peaceful
purposes, co-operation among European States in space research and technology
and their space applications, with a view to their being used for scientific
purposes and for operational space applications systems,
(a)
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by
elaborating and implementing a long-term European space policy, by
recommending space objectives to the Member States, and by concerning the
policies of the Member States with respect to other national and
international organisations and institutions;
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(b)
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by
elaborating and implementing activities and programmes in the space field;
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(c)
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by
coordinating the European space programme and national programmes, and by
integrating the latter progressively and as completely as possible into the
European space programme, in particular as regards the development of
applications satellites;
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(d)
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by
elaborating and implementing the industrial policy appropriate to its
programme and by recommending a coherent industrial policy to the Member
States.
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