U.S. slams ‘discriminatory’ draft EU space law as imperiling NATO cooperation

The U.S. has come out swinging against a draft law by the European Union that Washington claims would establish restrictive market barriers, impose costly environmental protection requirements, and create regulatory hurdles for US commercial firms — thus undermining bilateral, as well as NATO-wide, cooperation.

The US “expresses deep concern regarding measures in the proposed Act that would impose unacceptable regulatory burdens on U.S. providers of space services to European customers,” the State Department charges in a document submitted to the EU on Tuesday.

The draft EU Space Act, publicized in June, has three key pillars, according to a fact sheet by the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch

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