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RECOGNISING Switzerland’s interest in all GNSS services, as provided by EGNOS and Galileo, including the Public Regulated Service (hereinafter referred to as "PRS"),

CONSIDERING the Agreement of 25 June 2007 on scientific and technological cooperation between the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the Swiss Confederation, of the other part,

RECOGNISING the Agreement of 28 April 2008 between the Swiss Confederation and the European Union on the security procedures for the exchange of classified information (hereinafter referred to as "Security Agreement "),

CONSIDERING the benefits of an equivalent level of protection of the European GNSS and their services in the territories of the Parties,

RECOGNISING the obligations of the Parties under international law, in particular the obligations of Switzerland as a permanent neutral State,

RECOGNIZING that Regulation (EC) No 683/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on the further implementation of the European satellite navigation programmes (EGNOS and Galileo)¹ states that the European Community shall be the owner of all tangible and intangible asset created or developed under the European GNSS programmes as defined in that Regulation,

¹OJEC L 196, 24.7.2008, p. 1.

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