Sorry Dear Lucio, I don't want to cause more headache on you, keep calm.
I want to emphasis that I would say exactly the same if it would have been a German company violating the rules, no doubt..
Yes, you are right.. every national country have the power to grant a license, even if it's not according to CEPT or ITU rules. This does not make the world better though. We all know that there exists Banana Republics with basically no rules, just money or nuts. Several European companies, Universities, even from Germany have licensed satellites in those countries. However, it is our right to protect our amateur radio bands, complain and caught attention to ITU and our national regulator. We did that in Germany too! Yes, there is a "gray zone", but we already see improvements.. just being quite and accepting that can not be the answer...
We might also get support from a completely different side. Other companies may now rub their eyes and feel economically disadvantaged because they have to pay for commercial frequencies and have other disadvantages.
I can tell you that we have been approached by European startup companies asking if we could help them to license a satellite in Germany, which was already denied by their national administration after IARU denied the coordination due to incompatibility with the amateur satelliteservice. After consulting IARU and DARC we also could not support this proposal. Finally they found an amateur satellite group of another country which gave them an alibi...
However, an Amateur Radio Satellite is not justified or qualified by being built by amateurs, universities or organizations like AMSAT. A satellite working in the Amateur Satellite Service is clearly defined by it's purpose and usage, not who build and payed for it!! Even a commercial company is allowed to build and operate amateur radio satellites, as long as they fulfill the definition given by ITU as partly described above.. Otherwise QO-100 would not exist!
Universities often work closely with commercial companies. You will remember that even Pacsats were sold in some form of Kit.
Very good example actually !!
All those PACSAT's where completely transparent and open. All modulation formats and protocols were published in public. And in fact I can't think about any other company which did it better job than SSTL in UK to include and not exclude radio amateurs!! They even involved amateurs to participate, apart from downloading camera images, they gave us a wonderful Store&Forward packet radio communication tool for world wide communication and they provide the software for free! They actively involved radio amateurs in communication and education. I personally had a lot of fun with them, analyzing the telemetry, downloading camera images etc.. In addition, later UoSAT's, like KITSAT and POSAT were using amateur and commercial frequencies completely separated from each other to conform with the rules, because they were getting more and more into the commercial business. Nowadays they do not include amateur radio anymore because of commercial business on frequencies outside of the amateur bands..
For sure, these satellites were "demonstrators" with full participation of radio amateurs to exploit the feasibility for later commercial missions (on commercial frequencies).. Nothing against that, it's actually the purpose of amateur radio.. education and development of new technologies, which does not exclude later industrialization.
I can't see anything of that with ION-SVC (ION mk01), built by D-Orbit. Nothing is published, nothing to learn from it, the satellite even does not identify himself.. everything in the dark.. this has nothing to do with "educational" purposed and "studies", "experimental licenses" etc.. After all, we are now dealing with legal studies, so we are learning... Hey!! - so it's in fact an educational satellite
But as I said.. I don't want to cause more headache and ill stop here..
Enjoy amateur radio and the satellites, have a nice weekend..
73s Peter