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A PROPOSAL FOR A GNSS FAILURE LEGAL LIABILITIES SCHEME

The proper scheme of legal liability for the management of legal consequences of a GNSS failure has become an important GNSS utilisation issue for some time. As the GNSS has become both the enabling and the underlying foundation to a growing number of systems and services, the quest of legal liability emerges as an important component of the establishment of the GNSS business environment. Considering the current state of the art, the GNSS should be considered a component of the national infrastructure, along with the systems such as those for power distribution or the national airspace. Here we present a proposal for a legal liability scheme in the case of the GNSS failure, which is based on the spatial, technology and business environment shared liability. Reflecting the GNSS utilisation from the service provision perspective, this proposal requests the GNSS risks assessment, and mitigation plan to be prepared by the GNSS business environment stakeholders. Under the proposed scheme, the national regulatory agency and the service providers should take a portion of legal responsibility for provision of the guaranteed level of the GNSS positioning and timing service, thus allowing for sustained provision of the GNSS performance and the quality of GNSS-based services.

GNSS failure; liability scheme; GNSS-based services; legal framework

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