Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1053 of 30 May 2023 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2023/588 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards operational requirements for governmental services provided under Union Secure Connectivity Programme and its service portfolio

1 The system implementing the Union Secure Connectivity Programme shall be designed to provide or enable the following satellite communications services: (a) the following services offered to governmental users based on the governmental infrastructure: (i) Service #1: Robust Worldwide Low-latency Service; (ii) Service #2: Space Data Relay; (b) the following services offered to governmental users based on the commercial infrastructure: (i) Service #3: Assured Worldwide Low-latency Service; (ii) Service #4: Assured Worldwide Narrowband Service. The services referred to in the first subparagraph shall comply with the requirements for the predefined profiles for those services set out in the Annex.

2 The service portfolio of the system implementing the Union Secure Connectivity programme shall be tailored for each service and delivered to the end-users in conformity with the following procurement schemes: (a) end-to-end service scheme, where the service is provided from the router/switch on the anchor station side, to the router/switch on the user terminal side, including the possibility of providing the external network on the anchor station side; (b) managed services scheme, where the provision of the service is guaranteed with the exclusion of the terminal.

The following rules and operational requirements shall apply for the provision of governmental services: (1) In terms of resources and participants’ shares: (a) the resources of the system implementing the Union Secure Connectivity Programme aimed to the provision of the Service #1, Service #2, Service #3, Service #4 defined in the Annex shall extend the Common Union pool defined in Article 2 of the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055 . They form an ‘Extended Union Pool’. (b) the Commission shall set the additional number of tokens (‘SC tokens’) to be added to the GOVSATCOM tokens as defined in Article 2 of the Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055. (c) the repartition of ‘SC tokens’ among Programme participants shall follow the rules defined in Article 5 of the Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055. However, the repartition of the ‘SC tokens’ between Member States, EU institutions and the crisis margin defined in Article 5(2) may vary. (2) In terms of allocation of services: (a) the provision of the services provided by the system implementing the Union Secure Connectivity Programme to the participants shall follow the fixed and dynamic schemes as defined in the Articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055. (b) the allocation of the fixed and dynamic part of Service #1 and Service #2 defined in the Annex shall follow the approach defined in Articles 6(1), (3) and (4), Article 7(1), (5), (6), (7) and (8) and Article 8 of the Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055. (c) the allocation of the fixed and dynamic part of Service #3 and Service #4 defined in the Annex shall follow the approach defined in Articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055. (d) the services provided by the system implementing the Union Secure Connectivity Programme shall be compensated using tokens. The compensation value in tokens for each service option shall be included in the service proposal made to the Competent GOVSATCOM Authority. (3) In terms of service profiles, requests and prioritisation: (a) the service profiles are defined by their primary attributes’ values. The predefined service profiles are set in the Annex. (b) the users may issue service requests as defined in Article 9 of the Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055. (c) the requests for services shall follow the rules as defined in Article 9 of the Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055. The GOVSATCOM Hub shall assign the request to the Extended Union pool, which includes the capacity provided by the Union Secure Connectivity Programme. (d) any conflict associated to the service request, including the need for pre-emption of the services, shall follow the rules defined in Article 11 of the Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1055. (4) In terms of deployment logic: (a) the system implementing the Union Secure Connectivity Programme shall be conceived as modular and scalable, progressively expanding the space segment according to the evolution of the demand of the services over the service life. (b) the modularity and scalability of the system implementing the Union Secure Connectivity Programme may include investment from the private sector in accordance with market demand variations. (c) any replenishment activity at Space or Ground Segment level shall not affect the continuity of the operational services.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.