All Related Apply Refine results Type Article News Categories Satellites Organisation Meteosat Tags Corporate Cooperation Press Release Date 2012 Date February November SHOW ALL 2 results News 16 November 2012 Council approves EPS-SG Preparatory Programme and extends Indian Ocean service EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 77th Council meeting in Darmstadt, Germany, on 15 November. News 1 February 2012 Special EUMETSAT Council achieves progress with EPS-SG The special EUMETSAT Council meeting on 30-31 January recorded progress in the approval process for the EUMETSAT Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) Preparatory Programme, with the sum of contributions increasing from nearly 55 per cent to 83 per cent and 18 of the 27 EUMETSAT Member States having firmly committed themselves to the programme.