Activities of the ILA: Doc .A/AC.105.C.2/100

MAUREEN WILLIAMS

Viena

Conferencia; Fifty-First Session of the Legal Subcommittee of COPUOS; 2012

Naciones Unidas

Abstract The ILA Space Law Committee will be submitting a fifth and final report to the 75th ILA Conference, to be held in Sofia from 26 to 30 August 2012. Under the heading “Legal aspects of the privatization and commercialization of space activities”, two main topics are addressed as follows. Remote sensing: ranging from an evaluation of the 1986 United Nations Principles Relating to Remote Sensing of the Earth from Outer Space and their validity today in the light of State practice and technological developments, and the use of this technology to monitor the compliance with international agreements, to the specific problems arising from the use of satellite imagery as evidence in court with special reference to recent case law and suggestions from the doctrine. National space legislation: the final text of a draft model law will be submitted for adoption at the 75th ILA Conference. The unedited version of the draft model law will be made available as a conference room paper at the fifty-first session of the Legal Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Following the session of the Legal Subcommittee, the draft model law, as part of the full ILA report, will be circulated to ILA Space Law Committee members for final suggestions, and the fifth report of the ILA Space Law Committee is expected to be posted on the ILA website by next June.