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Eutelsat

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Eutelsat is a global satellite operator providing broadcasting, broadband, and connectivity services through a combined fleet of geostationary and low Earth orbit satellites.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Erica Gerretsen (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and SES S.A. and HISPASAT, S.A.

28 Jan 2026 · Presentation of Global Gateway Investment Hub and opportunities for the European private sector

Meeting with François Kalfon (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

11 Dec 2025 · Mobilité militaire et IRIS2

Meeting with András Gyürk (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Amazon Europe Core SARL and 4iG Plc.

4 Dec 2025 · Third Budapest Conference on Space Law

Meeting with François Kalfon (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Nov 2025 · Actualité spatiale et visite du centre de contrôle

Meeting with Elena Donazzan (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Leonardo S.p.A. and

13 Nov 2025 · Parliamentary Hearing on the European Space Act

Meeting with András Gyürk (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Leonardo S.p.A. and

13 Nov 2025 · Parliamentary Hearing on the European Space Act

Meeting with Elena Donazzan (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

13 Oct 2025 · Incontro e scambio di vedute su Space Act

Meeting with François Kalfon (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur for opinion)

2 Oct 2025 · EU Space Act

Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and HISPASAT, S.A. and Unknown Organization

9 Sept 2025 · Satellite connectivity in Greenland

Meeting with François Kalfon (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Jul 2025 · Space act

Meeting with Felix Fernandez-Shaw (Director Directorate-General for International Partnerships) and HISPASAT, S.A.

15 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on the opportunities and challenges for satellite connectivity in Greenland

Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

26 Jun 2025 · Compétitivité; relations USE-UE, CSRD/CS3D, Simplification

Meeting with Pierre-Romain Thionnet (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Jun 2025 · Industries aéronautiques et spatiales

Meeting with Andrius Kubilius (Commissioner) and

19 Jun 2025 · Visit of EUTELSAT premises.

Meeting with Piotr Serafin (Commissioner) and

10 Jun 2025 · Presentation of EUTELSAT and its operations

Meeting with Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Jun 2025 · Space communication

Meeting with Marion Maréchal (Member of the European Parliament)

9 Apr 2025 · Politiques spatiales

Meeting with Christophe Grudler (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Feb 2025 · Connectivité par satellite

Meeting with Christophe Grudler (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Sept 2024 · Mise en œuvre du programme de connectivité sécurisée

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

22 Mar 2023 · Space policy

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

6 Mar 2023 · Space Policy

Response to Space Strategy for security and defence

10 Feb 2023

Eutelsat shares the Commission's analysis of the increasing importance of space-based capabilities for the European society and economy. Along with the recommendations of the Strategic Compass, Eutelsat considers that the conception, development, launch, operation and exploitation of space-based capabilities and services (encompassing Telecommunications, Observation and Navigation) is a strategic enabler for the European security and defence. This calls for strengthening the security and defence dimension of space, for which a coherent policy for the space sector is needed. Both public and private European actors must act to maintain the European leadership and autonomy with improved capabilities and operational superiority, which will also enable the European space actors to keep competing on the global markets. In this respect, Eutelsat welcomes the Commission's initiative for a EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence and would like to draw the Commission's attention to the points raised in the attached file, which could be addressed to improve the contribution of space to European security and defence on the one side, and enhance the overall security, robustness, availability, resilience, quality and sustainability of space assets and services for Europe on the other.
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Meeting with Timo Pesonen (Director-General Defence Industry and Space)

16 Jan 2023 · Meeting to discuss on secure connectivity and Eutelsat's potential contributions to the IRIS2 initiative.

Meeting with Marie Frenay (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)

1 Dec 2022 · European Media Freedom Act, media sanctions

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner) and

30 Sept 2022 · Space

Meeting with Christophe Grudler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

29 Sept 2022 · Secure Connectivity

Meeting with Kim Jorgensen (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Pierre-Arnaud Proux (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

25 May 2022 · EU space policy.

Meeting with Niklas Nienass (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

18 May 2022 · Secure Connectivity

Response to EU Space-based secure connectivity

12 May 2022

Eutelsat welcomes the issuance by the European Commission of the Proposal for a Regulation establishing the Union Secure Connectivity Programme for the period 2023-2027 (hereinafter the Regulation) and is pleased to hereafter provide its views in the attached document.
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Response to European Media Freedom Act

24 Mar 2022

Veuillez trouver ci-joint la réponse d'Eutelsat à l’appel à contribution « Préserver la liberté des médias dans l'UE - nouvelles règles ».
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Meeting with Franc Bogovič (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Mar 2022 · Meeting on EU Strategic Autonomy

Meeting with Christophe Grudler (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

25 Feb 2022 · Secure Connectivity

Meeting with Niklas Nienass (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Feb 2022 · Strategic Autonomy in Space

Response to EU Space-based secure connectivity

23 Sept 2021

Eutelsat welcomes the issuance of the Inception Impact Assessments on the EU Space-based Global Secure Connectivity System (hereinafter the System) and is pleased to hereafter provide its views. We strongly believe that the future EU autonomous and secure infrastructure for connectivity will be an accelerator of the EU digital transformation and a booster for competitiveness. Our feedback focuses on 4 aspects. 1. Defining an appropriate level of strategic autonomy There is a consensus that EU strategic autonomy in space is desirable. However, how to effectively deliver it requires further refinement. While the concept of EU open strategic autonomy should be a key driver of the System, we consider it should be applied flexibly rather than as a fixed and permanently defined notion, i.e. some differentiation should apply when assessing technologies, assets, operations, services or investments. This requires weighing up the criticality of key elements with respect to the objective of autonomy and selecting the appropriate level that complies with the requirements of each and every usage (governmental or commercial). 2. Possible indicative policy options We consider there is a need for additional EU action beyond what is currently foreseen in the Space Regulation; therefore "Opt.0. Baseline" is to be excluded. Connectivity is a different type of service and belongs to a different market than NAV and EO, especially given the large role of the private sector of which Eutelsat is a leading representative. A proper functioning of this existing market and fair competition practices should be preserved. As a consequence, we do not support "Opt.1. EU owned infrastructure". All other options deserve further analysis to carefully weigh the pros and cons of each. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive, as different options can be adopted in different phases of the deployment and the exploitation of the System (e.g. with a gradient from Opt.3a to 3b if and when this makes sense). "Opt.3b PPP–Availability " is the closest model to the mission of Eutelsat since its creation in 1977: conceive, deploy and operate a telecom satellite system. "Opt.4 Minority stake in non-EU constellations " is worth considering if the EU would want to fast-track its access to the future of satcoms and enjoy the distinctive advantages that some of those constellations can offer, including being holders of priority ITU filings. Building upon existing or soon-to-be deployed constellations brings the positive impact that the immediate availability of services might have, as well as the opportunity to have an operational framework to test new and innovative technological developments. Openness of non-EU constellations to integrate EU-dedicated features in future deployments would be an important factor to consider. More generally, relying on non-EU satcom assets in which EU companies have industrial/capital interests and play a substantial role would help the EU to control the level of external dependency, and manage the associated risks. 3. Indicative planning There is a high risk that the EU lose the constellation race. Given this sense of urgency, the EU should not only focus on the long-term perspective, meant to lower dependencies and address technology gaps, but should also meet short-term objectives, to keep up with the rapid growth and evolution of user needs. The EU can count on the full support of its satcom private industry. In turn, the EU should also support industry’s efforts and its ability to act and compete in a global marketplace by providing a reasonable level of predictability of the initiative for the establishment of the System (calendar and budgets), as the industry would need to engage in this initiative large, valuable human and financial resources, and this for a long time. 4. Other matters The System being developed will have to pay close attention to the quality of the satellite filing for the radio frequencies the System will use.
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Meeting with Marian-Jean Marinescu (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Jul 2021 · Current and future contributions to the EU’s space, industrial and digital objectives in Europe

Meeting with Nele Eichhorn (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

4 Dec 2020 · New competition challenges facing the satellite industry, the importance of European strategic autonomy, and Eutelsat’s current and future contributions to the EU’s space, industrial and digital objectives

Meeting with Timo Pesonen (Director-General Defence Industry and Space)

20 Oct 2020 · Videoconference to exchange views on the European space priorities.

Meeting with Thierry Breton (Commissioner)

9 Jun 2020 · One Web

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology) and Airbus

24 Apr 2020 · Follow-up to the 9 April 2020 call

Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President)

22 Jan 2020 · Economic situation of the EU space sector

Response to Union Position for the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference 2019

19 Nov 2018

EUTELSAT FEEDBACK ON THE ROADMAP OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO DEFINE AN EU POSITION FOR THE 2019 WORLD RADIOCOMMUNICATION CONFERENCE Eutelsat is satisfied with the general summary presented in the Roadmap, considering this document clearly refers to the RSPG final opinion on the ITU-R WRC 2019 as the main basis underpinning the future Commission Proposal. Indeed, the RSPG recalls several times along its final opinion (point 3, point 4.1 and point 4.9.3) its strong opposition to any consideration of the 27.5-29.5GHz band under Agenda item 1.13, in line with the European position when agreeing this Agenda item at WRC-15. This position is strongly supported by Eutelsat. 1. Nevertheless, Eutelsat would like to contribute to an improvement of the Roadmap itself in the part called “Problem the initiative aims to tackle”, in a goal to make the sentence better reflect the reality of the radio spectrum usage. Eutelsat would suggest to complete the second sentence of this part as follows: “It underpins not only television and radio distribution, mobile communications, and data connectivity including broadband, but also increasingly our transport systems and our smart communities and industries.” Radio spectrum has been increasingly used in the past ten years to provide data communications and broadband access to all kind of populations over the world, including to the ones in the most remote areas. According to Eutelsat, this service definitely needs to be mentioned here as it takes an increasing place amongst the spectrum user applications. 2. For the sake of clarity, Eutelsat would also suggest, in part B “What does the initiative aim to achieve”, to align the proposed text with the exact wording of the Agenda Item 1.13 of the Conference, and replace the beginning of the sentence : “The Commission proposal for a Decision will, once adopted by the Council, provide a clear steer on some of the main policy items that are subject to EU competence: - 5G bands (at 26 GHz and above); (…)” by: “The Commission proposal for a Decision will, once adopted by the Council, provide a clear steer on some of the main policy items that are subject to EU competence: - 5G bands in the frequency range between 24 GHz and 86 GHz (specifically the bands listed in the agenda item: 24.25-27.5 GHz, 31.8-33.4 GHz, 37-43.5 GHz, 45.5-50.2 GHz, 50.4-52.6 GHz, 66-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz); (…)”
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Meeting with Eric Peters (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

23 Mar 2018 · rôle du satellite dans le déploiement de la 5G, fréquences satellites pour la prochaine Conférence Mondiale des Radiocommunications (2019), future mise en œuvre de la directive Services de Médias Audiovisuels

Meeting with Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)

19 Sept 2017 · On Spectrum / broadband / AVMSD /

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

10 Jul 2017 · Connectivity, spectrum, 5G

Meeting with Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

17 Mar 2017 · Satellite and connectivity, telecom review

Meeting with Christian Linder (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

10 Nov 2016 · Space Strategy

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner) and Airbus and

22 Mar 2016 · DSM

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President) and Airbus and

13 Jan 2016 · Space Strategy for Europe

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

11 Dec 2015 · Govsatcom