GMES definition

GMES means Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, a programme of the European Union (to be known as "Copernicus" from 2014).
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Examples of GMES in a sentence

  • The overall objective of the GMES initiative is to support Europe’s goals regarding sustainable development and global governance of the environment by providing timely and quality data, information, services and knowledge.

  • Supervisor Approval Date Budget Code: 0100-27-2000-Building Code Exhibit B It is agreed that members of the District CURRICULUM COMMITTEE will receive the following stipend: Member* $400 Chair* $250 (Additional) It is agreed that members of the CURRICULUM STUDY COMMITTEE will receive the following stipend: Member* $400 Chair* $250 (Additional) Grade Level/Leadership Each building will receive $3500 for educational leadership positions as determined by building site-based teams (RPS, GMES, RMS, RHS).

  • A proposal was also made for a local component focusing on riparian areas which is part of the 2013 GMES Work Programme (to be adopted in 2012).

  • Access to all Copernicus (previously known as GMES or Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) Information and Data is regulated under Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2013 on the European Earth monitoring programme, under the ECMWF Agreement and under the European Commission’s Terms and Conditions.

  • The ‘Global Monitoring for the Environment and Security’ (GMES) serves as the European capacity for earth-observation-based environmental services, in which water is a component.

  • Mapping all EU large irrigated areas via the GMES initiative and matching these areas with water abstraction permits can help Member States enforce them and tackle illegal abstraction.

  • Within the GMES programme, some initiatives contributing to sustainable water management are already on-going.

  • All these initiatives, in brief, can help demonstrate the potential of GMES in supporting sustainable water management and tackling current problems such as illegal water abstraction.

  • Firstly, GMES is an EU-level activity itself and, therefore, only EU-level action is appropriate.

  • Alternatively, the Contractor undertakes to grant the same rights directly to the EC, or any relevant entity designated to develop the subsequent GMES elements, and their Contractors, should the Agency instruct it to do so.

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