ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the reflections presented at the Contracting for Space Workshop held in Bremen on 27-28 November 2009. For more than three decades the European Space Agency (ESA) has been elaborating and implementing a long-term European space policy for space research, technology and their space applications. For a decade the European Union (EU) has made major efforts to become the driver for a coherent approach to a European space policy. Until the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the former European Union was based on a structure of three pillars: European Communities, Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Police and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters (PJCCM). The Treaty of Lisbon integrated the pillar structure into one Union. The EU could easily rely on the non-commercial space sector's three decades of ESA experience were the EU to differentiate and adapt its industrial policy.
