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<p>The UK remains absolutely committed to European security. However, security-critical
military applications require the greatest level of assurance that they will work
as needed. The stance taken by the EU does not meet our security needs, and since
January 2018 they have excluded UK companies from participating in the security elements
of the programme, pre-empting and prejudicing negotiations and limiting the possibility
of retaining the necessary level of assurance. This leaves us no alternative but to
rule out military and critical national infrastructure use of the secure aspects of
Galileo. We have asked the UK’s world-leading space and cryptography industries to
develop plans for a UK system which fully meets our security requirements.</p>
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