By Duncan Roberts | Luxembourg Times
The EU Space Act unveiled by the European Commission on Wednesday is likely to have a significant impact on players in the sector, a lawyer and a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in the matter have said.
Naomi Pryde, partner and global co-chair for space exploration and innovation at DLA Piper, said that the Space Act “is effectively the orbital equivalent of GDPR.” She called it a “sweeping extra-territorial legal regime that is seeking to set the global standard and make access to the EU market conditional on compliance with European values: safety; resilience and sustainability.”
The leader of Rose Law Group’s Space Law Practice, Shruti Gurudanti, tells RLGR:
“This Act is a major step forward for Space law, providing much-needed clarity on the legal framework within which companies need to operate.”
