Article 25

Electronic certificate (e-certificate)

1. Upon completion of the registration in URSO, the Agency shall issue and deliver an electronic certificate (‘e-certificate’) to the space service providers except the collision avoidance space services providers.

2. The e-certificate referred to in paragraph 1 shall identify the space mission(s) and space object(s) having generated the space-based data or having enabled the provision of space services and shall attest the conformity of such space objects with the requirements laid down in this Regulation.

3. Contracts of space services providers referred to in Article 2(1), points (a), (c) and (d), for the provision of space-based data and space services in the Union shall be accompanied by the e-certificate referred to in paragraph 1.

4. The following information shall be transmitted by the competent authorities, as regards Union space operators, pursuant to Article 7(7), and directly by third country space operators and international organisations, to allow the Agency to issue and generate the e-certificate referred to in paragraph 1:

(a) details regarding the space services provider concerned, such as the name, physical address, internet address, the Member State or, as applicable, the third country of establishment and authorisation, the name and address of the competent authority or, as applicable, the relevant third country supervisory authority;

(b) details regarding the type of space services carried out, indicating the Member State(s) or the third countries where these are being carried out;

(c) technical details regarding the space object that is operated or launched and the respective space mission.

5. For the purposes of the request for standards referred to in Article 104, the e-certificate referred to in paragraph 1 shall comply with the following requirements:

(a) the e-certificate shall determine that a given space-based data is generated through the use of a clearly identified space mission and space object;

(b) for observation data, the e-certificate shall allow the tracking of the flow of space-based data, from its generation by a given space object, to incorporation into the first space service making use of that space-based data;

(c) the e-certificate shall be based on algorithms to ascertain the integrity of space-based data across its incorporation into subsequent services.

6. For the purposes of generating the e-certificate referred to in paragraph 1 the Agency may request, as appropriate, technical assistance from the competent authorities and the qualified technical bodies for space activities regarding any of the elements referred to in paragraph 5.

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