Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1882 of 10 July 2024 amending Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/224 setting out the technical and operational specifications allowing the commercial service offered by the system established under the Galileo programme to fulfil the function referred to in Article 2(4)(c) of Regulation (EU) No 1285/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the free provision of a signal authentication service

The Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/224 is amended as follows: (1) in the row ‘Components of the signals used’, subcolumn ‘Specifications specific to the CS: authentication using encrypted codes’, the text is replaced by the following: ‘E6, E6-C component encrypted (pilot)’; (2) in the row ‘Specifications of the user segment’, subcolumn ‘Specifications specific to the CS: authentication using encrypted codes’, the text is replaced by the following: ‘Verification of the authenticity of the signals by decrypting E6 codes re-encrypted with an OS data authentication key’; (3) in the row ‘System architecture’, subcolumn ‘Specifications specific to the CS: authentication using encrypted codes’, the text is replaced by the following: ‘Encryption of the E6 signal codes by the Galileo satellites, transmission of the private keys generated by the ground segment to the GNSS Service Centre (GSC), and publication of re-encrypted portions of the E6 signal codes with a future OS data authentication key’; (4) in the row ‘Access to the service’, column ‘CS authentication’, the text is replaced by the following: ‘Free access’; (5) in the row ‘Deployment of the service’, subcolumn ‘Specifications specific to the CS: authentication using encrypted codes’, the two indents are replaced by the following: ‘— Initial signals supply phase by 2024, — Service supply phase from 2026’; (6) in the row ‘Use of EU classified information’, subcolumn ‘Specifications specific to the CS: authentication using encrypted codes’, the text is replaced by the following: ‘No use of EUCI by the end user’.

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