Latvia signs accession agreement with EUMETSAT
Latvia today signed the accession agreement to become a full Member State of EUMETSAT
31 March 2022
17 December 2008
The agreement was signed by Mr. Raimonds Vējonis, Latvian Minister of the Environment, and Dr. Lars Prahm, Director-General of EUMETSAT.
Dr. Prahm welcomed the accession of Latvia in 2009, one year earlier than envisaged when it became a Cooperating State in July 2004.
As a Member State, Latvia will participate fully in EUMETSAT’s decision-making process, will have unlimited access to all EUMETSAT data and products for official duty use, and its industry will be able to bid for contracts. Latvia will participate in all EUMETSAT mandatory programmes as well as the Jason-2 optional programme.
Minister Vējonis stated, "I am very proud that my country was able to cover in relatively short time the distance between becoming a new independent state in Europe and a Member State of EUMETSAT. Joining the EUMETSAT organisation with full Member State status is one of the steps towards closer integration in this highly developed European society. Joining EUMETSAT underlines that the Meteorological Service in our country is open to cooperate in a very wide international environment."
The Latvian delegation, which included Mrs. Inita Stikute, Deputy Director of the Latvian Environment, Geological and Meteorological Agency, received presentations on EUMETSAT, its programmes and applications. It also toured the EUMETSAT Control Centre.