New user services have been developed.

4. Where a contracting authority/entity makes use of the option of referring to the specifications mentioned in paragraph 3(a), it can not reject a tender on the grounds that the products and services tendered for do not comply with the specifications to which it has referred, once the tenderer proves in its tender to the satisfaction of the contracting authority/entity, by whatever appropriate means, that the solutions which it proposes satisfy in an equivalent manner the requirements defined by the technical specifications.

4. Where a contracting entity makes use of the option of referring to the specifications mentioned in paragraph 3(a), it cannot reject a tender on the ground that the products and services tendered for do not comply with the specifications to which it has referred, once the tenderer proves in his tender to the satisfaction of the contracting entity, by whatever appropriate means, that the solutions which he proposes satisfy in an equivalent manner the requirements defined by the technical specifications.

The best approach to ensure that the services provided by EGNOS are fully coordinated with the future Galileo services would be to place EGNOS under the control of the Galileo Joint Undertaking, created for a duration of four years by Council Regulation (EC) No 876/2002 of 21 May 2002 [19].

The range of Galileo services is designed to meet practical objectives and expectations, from improving the coverage of open-access services in urban environments (to cover 95% of urban districts compared with the 50% currently covered by GPS alone) which will benefit the 160 million private vehicles in Europe, or enabling the use of satellite navigation applications "indoors", in buildings and even in tunnels, or indeed mobile telephone services based on identifying the caller's position.

6. Stresses that the ultimate goal of any spectrum policy should be to provide the citizens with high quality services and to secure the societal interest. It therefore opposes a purely market-driven approach to such policy.The commercial interest must be duly taken into account as this will guarantee a good use of scarce resources. Market pricing has an important part to play in securing the efficient use of spectrum and encouraging further technological developments. The economic and social value of the use of frequencies must however not only be assessed in the light of the opportunities for the respective user groups to make profits ...[+++]but is highly dependent on the significance of the services which the user group offers, the number of users of these services and the amount of time during which use is made of them. Therefore there must be a balance between commercial interests and the interests of society, such as research