Back to square one? Maybe not, but EU governments’ critical assessment to force a thorough remake of the EU Space Act

by Peter B. de Selding

WASHINGTON — European Union governments told the European Commission to make a thorough rewrite of its proposed EU Space Act to make it less complicated, with clearer lines of authority between the Commission and individual governments’ own space laws, and to remove what look like unnecessarily costly requirements on builders and operators of space systems.

Sensing the drift of opinion among the EU’s 27 governments, the Danish government, whose six-month EU presidency ends Dec. 31, furnished a 166-page “compromise text” that attempted to address some . . .

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