Report on the activities of international governmental and non governmental organisationorganisations relating to space law

MAUREEN WILLIAMS

Viena

Congreso; 52nd Session of the Legal Subcommittee of Copuos; 2013

Naciones Unidas (COPUOS)

A traditional practice of the Space Law Committee of the ILA is to liaise with other committees and study groups of the Association dealing with questions of common interest in the field of international law. Likewise, the ILA regular practice includes cooperation with the activities of international intergovernmental organizations, inter alia, the following: (a) The International Law Commission of the United Nations, with which the ILA Study Group on Responsibility of International Organisations worked closely in the period 2006-2012.2 (b) The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA): ILA Space Law Committee members were invited to form part of an advisory group of experts entrusted with the elaboration of Optional Rules for Arbitration of Disputes relating to Outer Space Activities (hereafter referred to as the ?PCA Outer Space Rules?).3 The Rules became effective on 6 December 2011 following their approval by the PCA Administrative Council. They were introduced to the Legal Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space at its fifty-first session by Fausto Pocar, Chair of the PCA Advisory Group and made available to the Subcommittee in a conference room paper, and were the object of comments by the Chair of the ILA Space Law Committee on that occasion (see A/AC.105/C.2/100).