For each Fast Track Service, a user workshop was organised to kick-start work by identifying service requirements and implementation roadmap. After the workshops, Implementation Groups have been established with the objective to:

• Supervise and validate the implementation of the "fast track" services, in particular by organising regular progress reviews during the development period and to report on its progress to the GMES management structure;
• Help organising workshops and conferences where appropriate during the implementation period in order to improve user awareness of the "fast track" services and consolidate and enlarge their user base, with a specific emphasis on regional issues.

Implementation Groups delivered in February 2007 Strategic Implementation Plans for the "fast track" services:

• Land Monitoring Core Service (report, Annexes)
• Marine Core Service (report)
• Emergency Response Core Service (report, Annexes A-D, Annexes E-H)

Based on the work of the Groups, the first version of the three "fast track" services will be developed via the projects under the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7)