Member and Cooperating States
Coordinates: 49°51′54″N 8°37′37″E / 49.865°N 8.62694°E / 49.865; 8.62694 The national mandatory contributions of member states are proportional to their gross national income. However, the cooperating countries contribute only half of the fee they would pay for full membership. The contribution level are those published at end of 2006, for the mandatory programs.
Additionally, some member states may be approved to extend their level of contributions, to compensate for operational deficits. When such contributions are approved by the EUMETSAT council, or if the member states participate to the optional Jason-2 Altimetry program, they get additional voting coefficient rights (most members participate to the optional Jason-2 program, with the current exception of Austria and Poland).
Full member states of the organization have free full access to the images, data and other information produced by EUMETSAT. Cooperating states benefit from reduced fees for accessing the same data, but may get free full access in case of emergency or threats of meteorological disasters. Exceptionally, some non-member states, participating to the WMO, may get access to some data for the same reason.
Many poor non-member states around the world also get free access to Meteosat data, when their yearly gross national income does not exceed 3500 USD per capita, based on World bank statistics reports.
| State | Status | Since (signing of convention) | Funding contribution |
Representative organization from national meteorological services (official national names, links point to names for official use in English) |
Official web site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | Member | March 1986 | 19.20% | Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) | |
| United Kingdom | Member | May 1985 | 15.62% | Met Office | |
| France | Member | February 1985 | 14.70% | Météo-France | |
| Italy | Member | June 1986 | 12.04% | Ufficio Generale Spazio Aereo e Meteorologia (USAM) - Reparto Meteorologia | |
| Spain | Member | February 1985 | 7.56% | Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Ministerio de Medio ambiente | |
| Netherlands | Member | March 1984 | 4.38% | Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI) | |
| Switzerland | Member | July 1985 | 2.75% | MeteoSchweiz / MétéoSuisse / MeteoSvizzera | |
| Belgium | Member | October 1985 | 2.57% | Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique (IRM) / Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut van België (KMI) | |
| Sweden | Member | January 1984 | 2.53% | Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut (SMHI) | |
| Turkey | Member | August 1984 | 2.27% | Remote Sensing Division, Devlet Meteoroloji İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü (DMİGM) | |
| Austria | Member | December 1993 | 2.05% | Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG) | |
| Norway | Member | April 1985 | 2.03% | Meteorologisk institutt (met.no) | |
| Poland | Member | June 2009 | 1.95% | Instytut Meteorologii i Gospodarki Wodnej (IMGW) | |
| Denmark | Member | January 1984 | 1.78% | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (DMI) | |
| Greece | Member | June 1988 | 1.65% | Εθνική Μετεωρολογική Υπηρεσία (HNMS) | |
| Finland | Member | December 1984 | 1.35% | Ilmatieteen laitos / Meteorologiska institutet (FMI) | |
| Portugal | Member | May 1989 | 1.23% | Instituto de Meteorologia (IM) | |
| Ireland | Member | June 1985 | 1.17% | Met Éireann | |
| Czech Republic | Member | 12 May 2010 | 0.80% | Český hydrometeorologický ústav (CHMI), Družicové Oddělení | |
| Hungary | Member | October 2008 | 0.69% | Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat (OMSZ) | |
| Romania | Member | November 2010 | 0.57% | National Meteorological Administration of Romania | |
| Slovakia | Member | January 2006 | 0.32% | Slovenský hydrometeorologický ústav (SHMU) | |
| Croatia | Member | December 2006 | 0.25% | Državni hidrometeorološki zavod (DHMZ) | |
| Slovenia | Member | February 2008 | 0.23% | Agencija Republike Slovenije za Okolje (ARSO) | |
| Luxembourg | Member | July 2002 | 0.21% | Administration de la navigation aérienne | |
| Latvia | Member | May 2009 | 0.10% | Latvijas Vides, ģeoloģijas un meteoroloģijas aģentūra (LVGMA) | |
| Bulgaria | Cooperating | May 2005 | 0.18% | Национален институт по метеорология и хидрология (INMH) | |
| Lithuania | Cooperating | November 2005 | 0.16% | Lietuvos hidrometeorologijos tarnyba (LHS), prie Aplinkos ministerijos | |
| Iceland | Cooperating | April 2006 | 0.10% | Veðurstofa Íslands | |
| Estonia | Cooperating | December 2006 | 0.09% | Eesti Meteoroloogia ja Hüdroloogia Instituut (EMHI) | |
| Serbia | Cooperating | November 2009 | 0.18% | Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia | |
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