The Council adopted conclusions on the progress of the Galileo programme, dawn up on the basis of the Commission communication "Taking stock of the Galileo programme": the Council encourages the full establishment of the European GNSS Supervisory Authority, the Community Agency that manages the public interests relating to EGNOS and GALILEO; it welcomes the Commission's legislative proposals aiming to transfer during 2006 to that Authority the remaining activities of the Galileo Joint Undertaking, which will be wound-up; and aims to reach an agreement on the proposals before the end of 2006.