The Results Of The UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee Working Group On “practice Of States And International Organizations In Registering Space Objects“ 2005-2007
- Paper number
IAC-07-E6.5.12
- Author
Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl, European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), Austria
- Coauthor
Mr. Niklas Hedman, Austria
- Year
2007
- Abstract
From 2005 to 2007 the Legal Subcommittee (LSC) of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) debated the issue of "Practice of States and international organizations in registering space objects". The purpose of this work plan was to strengthen the adherence to the Registration Convention. States identified this as necessary since the registration practice had been rather unsatisfactory during the preceding years and new problems had arisen with the application of the Convention. Such problems had already been touched upon during the deliberations of the legal concept of the "launching State", which led to the adoption of the respective General Assembly Resolution in 2004. The working group dealt with the subject under a multi-year work plan. In 2004, States and international organizations reported on their practice of registering space objects. In 2005, the Working Group started its work with the examination of these reports and turned in 2006 to the identification of common practices and started to draft recommendations for enhancing the adherence to the Registration Convention. In 2007 the work of the Working Group was finalized. This paper will describe the work of the Working Group and assess its achievements. The co-authors have been chairman (Kai-Uwe Schrogl, 2006-2007) and chairman/secretary (Niklas Hedman, 2005/2006-2007) respectively of this working group.
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