La Commission propose des alternatives pour mettre en oeuvre Galiléo[en][de] 

"The public-private partnership set up to implement Galileo needs to be reprofiled to enable Galileo to be operational and in service by 2012," said Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot representing, on 16 May 2007, a Commission Communication on the state of play of the Galileo satellite navigation programme. 

A Commission staff Working Paper accompanying  the Communication gives a brief overview of the history of the Galileo, the concession contract negotiations and the reasons for its failure, which is said to have resulted from disagreement with regards to the location of major Galileo installations, the roles of the respective industries, the internal repartition of work shares and the principle of geographical and/or equity returns as well as "a misjudgement that market-risk could be transferred to the private sector, the technical complexity of the programme, and insufficiently strong or clear public governance". 

The two documents also table six different scenarios, identified by the Commission, on the way forward with regard the Galileo project. The alternative scenarios range from the current status quo to stopping Galileo and give an assessment of the costs, risks and affordability of each of the options. 

The option favoured by the Commission consists of full public-sector financing of the construction of the Galileo satellite infrastructure by 2012, after which the exploitation of the operational satellite system could be done in a public-private-partnership. 

This would imply annulment of the Galileo concession contract call for proposal issued in 2005 and issuing, by the European Space Agency (ESA), of new calls for proposals for the construction and launch of the 30 satellites. A new call for a concession contract to appoint those in charge of the maintenance and deployment of the structure would be organised around 2012.  

Moneywise, this option would imply that the heading 1A of the financial perspectives 2007-2013 would need to be changed, and more money allocated to Galileo. Currently, heading 1A foresees €1 billion for the Galileo project. If the whole infrastructure was to be built with public money, as the Commission proposes, an extra €2.4 billion would have to be found, as the total cost of building the satellite installation is estimated at €3.4 billion. Intergovernmental funding, asking member states to give Galileo the €2.4 billion, is also an option to finance this scenario.

The EU-27 ministers of transport will decide on the way forward in their meeting on 7-8 June 2007.