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Space Law Documents
Basic National Documents in relation with Space Law Laws and Policies
ARGENTINA-DOCUMENTS
- National Decree No. 125/95: Establishment of the National Registry
of Objects Launched into Outer Space, Buenos Aires, July 19, 1995 - National Decree No. 995/91: Creation of the National Commission
on Space Activities, Buenos Aires, May 28, 1991
AUSTRALIA-DOCUMENTS
- Australia Space Activities Act 1998, No. 123
- Australia Space Activities Regulations 2001; Statutory Rules No.
186, April 30, 2004 - Space activities (approved scientific or educational organizations)
guidelines 2004, February 3, 2004 - CASA: unmanned aircraft and rockets: rockets AC 101-2(0), July 2002
- Australian Civil Aviation Safety Regulations, 1998 (CASR)
- Maximum probable loss methodology, second edition, Department
of Industry, Tourism and Resources, July 2002
AUSTRIA-DOCUMENTS
- Austrian Federal Law on the Authorization of Space Activities
and the Establishment of a National Space Registry (Austrian
Outer Space Act; adopted by the National Council on Dec. 6,
2011, entered into force on Dec. 28, 2011)
BELGIUM-DOCUMENTS
- Law on the activities of launching, flight operations or guidance of
space objects
BRAZIL-DOCUMENTS
- Administrative Edict No. 27 of June 20, 2001; Brazilian Space
Agency: Regulation on Procedures and on Definition of Necessary
Requirements for the Request, Evaluation, Issuance, Follow-Up
and Supervision of Licenses for Carrying Out Launching Space
Activities on Brazilian Territory
CANADA-DOCUMENTS
- Aeronautics Act, Chapter A-2, an act to authorize the control of
aeronautics - Civil International Space Station Agreement Implementation Act,
1999, c. 35 - Canadian Space Agency Act, 1990, c. 13, an act to establish the
Canadian Space Agency and to provide for other matters in relation to space - Canada’s claim against the U.S.S.R. arising out of the Cosmos 954 incident and the claim’s settlement: statement of claim, January 23, 1979; settlement of claim, April 2, 1981; protocol between the government of Canada and the government of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics - Spar Aerospace Ltd. v. American Mobile Satellite Corp., [2002] 4 S.C.R. 205; June 11, 2002
- Statutes of Canada, Chapter 38: Telecommunications Act
- Regulation of space launch activities in Canada
- The International COSPAS-SARSAT Programme Agreement
- Canada-International COSPAS-SARSAT Programme Privileges and Immunities Order
CHILE-DOCUMENTS
- Establishment of a Presidential Advisory Committee Known as the
Chilean Space Agency, Supreme Decree No. 338, Santiago, July 17, 2001
PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA-DOCUMENTS
- China’s space activities, 2003-2006
- Regulations governing export control of military goods, October 22, 1997
- Chinese Law: Registration, Launching and Licensing Space Objects, February 8, 2001
- Measures for the Administration of Import and Export License for
Dual-Use Items and Technologies, January 1, 2006 - The Missiles and Missile-related Items and Technologies Export Control List, Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Export Control of Missiles and Missile-related Items and
Technologies, China’s Space Activities in 2006 (China’s Space White Paper 2006)
EUROPEAN UNION- DOCUMENTS
- European Space Policy: Green Paper; 2003
- European Space Policy: White Paper, November 2003
- Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament: European Space Policy; April 26, 2007
- European Space Policy, February 13, 2008
- Space Council Resolution on the European Space Policy; May 22, 2007
- Council Conclusions and Draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities, December 3, 2008
- Charter of the European Interparliamentary Space Conference (EISC)
- EU Statement on “PAROS” and Draft Code of Conduct
- Council Regulation (EC) No 428/2009: Setting up a Community
Regime for the Control of Exports, Transfer, Brokering, and Transit of Dual-use Items, May 5, 2009 - European Union Export Controls
FRANCE-DOCUMENTS
- Research Institution in Air and Space Matters and Law No. 61- 1382: Statute of the Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
GERMANY-DOCUMENTS
- Law governing the transfer of responsibilities in space activities, German Space Agency
- German Remote Sensing Law, November 23, 2007
HONG KONG-DOCUMENTS
- Hong Kong Outer Space Ordinance
INDIA-DOCUMENTS
- Remote Data Sensing Policy 2001
- National space policy overview
- SatCom policy
- Space activities legal framework of India
IRELAND-DOCUMENTS
- Irish Aviation Authority (rockets and small aircraft) Order 2000
ITALY-DOCUMENTS
- Law 23, 25 January 1983 (in the Official Gazette 35, 5 February, 1983): Norms for the implementation for the Convention on International Liability for Damage caused by Space Objects, March 29, 1972
JAPAN-DOCUMENTS
- Law Concerning the National Space Development Agency of Japan, Law No. 50 of June 23, 1969, as Amended
- Law Concerning Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Law Number 161 of December 13, 2002
- Policies and Procedures Regarding Satellite R&D/Procurement, June 15, 1990
- Space Activities Commission: Fundamental Policy of Japan’s Space Activities, January 24, 1996
- Basic Plan for Space Policy (June 2, 2009)
KOREA-DOCUMENTS
- Space Exploitation Promotion Act, Law No. 7538
- Space Liability Act, Law No. 8852 (Dec. 21, 2007)
NETHERLANDS-DOCUMENTS
- Rules concerning space activities and the establishment of a registry of space objects (Space Activities Act) (2006)
NIGERIA-DOCUMENTS
- National space policy and programmes
NORWAY-DOCUMENTS
- Act on Launching Objects from Norwegian Territory etc. into Outer Space, No. 38, June 13, 1969
- The Electronic Communications Act, As Amended January 15, 2008 Act No. 127 Relating to Broadcasting, As Amended June 2005
- Reg. 2009-06-02 No. 580: Regulations Concerning General Authorisations for the Use of Radio Frequencies, June 2, 2009
RUSSIA-DOCUMENTS
- Edict of the President of Russian Federation about the structure of management of space activity in the Russian Federation, February 25, 1992
- Government of Russian Federation Resolution of May 15, 1995, N 468
- No 104-Statute on licensing space operations, February 2, 1996
- Decree No 422 “on measures to fulfil the Russian Federal Space Program and International Space Agreements” , government of the Russian Federation, April 12, 1996
- Law of the Russian Federation “about space activity” , Decree No. 5663-1 of the Russian House of Soviets
- Federal law on commercial space activity, April, 1997
- Edict of the President of the Russian Federation No. 54 “on implementation of state policy in the field of rocket and space industry” , January 20, 1998
- Statement of the Supreme Soviet of Russian Federation “on the priorities of space policy of Russian Federation” , resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation No. 4879-1, April 27, 1993
- Russian Presidential Edict No 2005: “on the organization of the further utilization of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the interests of the Russian Federation’s Space Activity” (signed 24 October 1994)
- Adoption of Regulation on Federal Space Agency, June 26, 2004
- Russian Federation export controls
SOUTH AFRICA-DOCUMENTS
- Space Affairs Act No. 84 of 1993, Assented to June 23, 1993
- Space Affairs Amendment Act, 1995
- Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act, 2007
- South Africa National Space Agency Act 2008
- National Space Policy, December 2008
- South African Space Policy: The Domestic and International Regulatory and Strategic Frameworks for Space Activities
SPAIN-DOCUMENTS
- Royal Decree No. 278/1995, February 24, 1995
SWEDEN-DOCUMENTS
- Act on Space Activities (1982:963)
- Decree on Space Activities (1982:1069)
UKRAINE-DOCUMENTS
- Ordinance of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine, on space activity, November 15, 1996
- Ukrainian space activities regulations, 1998
UNITED KINGDOM- DOCUMENTS
- Outer Space Act, 1986 Chapter 38, July 18, 1986
- British Outer Space Act license application and guidelines
- British Space Policy 2007
United States Documents
For public laws and other documents about space law.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Documents
INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS ON SPACE DEBRIS
- Towards Long-term Sustainability of Space Activities: Overcoming the Challenges of Space Debris
- Report of the Third Space Debris Congress
V. SPACE CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAS
- Santiago Declaration, Punta del Este Declaration
VI. PAROS (PREVENTION OF AN ARMS RACE IN OUTER SPACE)
- Conference on Disarmament: Paper by Chinese and Russian Delegations
ICAO (INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION) DOCUMENTS
- Concept of Sub-Orbital Flights Working Paper, International Civil Aviation Organization Council, 175th Session, May 30, 2005 (C-WP/12436)
INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION
- Second Draft of a Model Law for National Space Legislation (2012)
European Space Agency (ESA) Documents
- Towards a Space Agency for the European Union
- European Space Policy
- Communication from the Commission to the Council and the
European Parliament
PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION
- Optional Rules for Arbitration Disputes Relating to Outer Space Activities (effective Dec. 6, 2011)
Resources
See Also
- Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
- Space Law Treaties
- Space Law Resolutions
- Air, Space, and Communications legal resources
- Space Law
- Aviation Law In Space Law
- Atmosphere and Space conventions
- Air law and law of outer space
- Outer Space Treaty