Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS)

The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) was set up by the General Assembly in 1959 to govern the exploration and use of space. It deals with all matters related to the development of peaceful uses of outer space and has a current membership of 67 States.

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) Documents

UN COPUOS Documents in General

• COPUOS Report: UN General Assembly 63rd Session and the National Legislation and Practice Relating to the Definition and Delimitation of Outer Space, February 2, 2009
• 5:3 Towards a UN Space Policy: An Initiative of the Chairman of UNCOPUOS, June 3, 2009
• National Legislation and Practice Relating to Definition and
  Delimitation of Outer Space, UN General Assembly, January 27, 2006
• Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Fifty third
  session, 9-18 June 2010

UN COPUOS Legal Subcommittee Documents

• Review of existing national space legislation illustrating how States
  are implementing, as appropriate, their responsibilities to
  authorize and provide continuing supervision of non-governmental
  entities in outer space: Note by the Secretariat (Apr. 2-12, 2001)
• Draft Convention of the International Institute for the Unification
  of Private Law on international interests in mobile equipment and
  the preliminary draft protocol thereto on matters specific to space
  property: Report of the Secretariat and the Secretariat of the
  International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Apr. 2-12, 2001)
• Practice of States and international organizations in registering
  space objects, Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space,
  January 19, 2006
• Report of the Legal Subcommittee on its forty-seventh session, held
  in Vienna from 31 March to 11 April 2008, 18 April 2008
• Schematic overview of National Regulatory Frameworks for Space
  Activities, Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, March 24, 2010
• General exchange of information on national legislation relevant to
  the peaceful exploration and use of outer space, Committee on the
  Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, March 29, 2010
• Draft report of the Chair of the Working Group on National
  Legislation Relevant to the Peaceful Exploration and Use of Outer
  Space, Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, March 31, 2010
• Revised draft set of conclusions of the Working Group on National
  Legislation Relevant to the Peaceful Exploration and Use of Outer
  Space: Working paper submitted by the Chair of the Working Group (Feb. 28, 2012)
• Status of International Agreements relating to activities in outer
  space as at 1 January 2012 (Mar. 19-30, 2012)
• Draft report of the Working Group on the Definition and
  Delimitation of Outer Space (Mar. 19-30, 2012)
• Draft report of the Chair of the Working Group on National
  Legislation Relevant to the Peaceful Exploration and Use of Outer Space (Mar. 19-30, 2012)
• Report of the Legal Subcommittee on its Fifty-First Session, Vienna (Mar. 19-30, 2012)
• Report of the Legal Subcommittee on its forty-ninth session, held in
  Vienna from 22 March to 1 April, 2010

UN COPUOS SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE Documents

• Technical Report on Space Debris, 1999
• Space debris mitigation guidelines of the Scientific and Technical
  Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, 2010
• Terms of Reference for the IADC, October 4, 2006

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on committee on the peaceful uses of outer space explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

Resources

Further Reading

• The entry “committee on the peaceful uses of outer space” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press