Through the 24 actions points listed in its space application action plan, the Commission is set to co-ordinate activities in this domain. This process has led to focusing the action plan, for the period up to 2013, on the following domains in particular to take advantage of the improved accuracy of EGNOS: applications for individual handsets and mobile phones, road transport, aviation, maritime transport and fisheries, precision agriculture and environmental protection, civil protection and surveillance.

Among other things, the European Commission will allocate €38 million worth of FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development) funding to a broad spectrum of research proposals on GNSS application in 2011; seek certification of EGNOS for aviation including Safety of Life; in conjunction with Eurocontrol target aircraft manufacturers, general aviation and small airports; investigate possibilities for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)and seek certification of Galileo for Intelligent Transport Systems while also targeting the road transport community; promote Galileo and EGNOS-enabled chips and handsets; establish an international EGNOS & Galileo application forum where users, developers, infrastructure managers and systems providers can exchange views so as to guide the development of the European GNSS project.