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Space Law Documents

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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)

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