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Lawyers Find New Growth In Space
 Vienna - August 1, 1999 - A five day workshop on Space Law at the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) issued 12 recommendations following extensive legal and ethical debate.

  1. UN Space Treaties are a solid legal framework for further legislation made necessary by rapid technological development.

  2. Private enterprise should be integrated into the legislative process.

  3. If space activities are to be for the benefit of all humankind then international cooperation and technology transfer have to be strengthened.

  4. International Institute of Space Law (IISL) should draft a "Magna Charta" as a general compendium of all space law.

  5. Commercial interest and national security considerations should be harmonized.

  6. Radio frequencies should be allocated more effectively to a wider user community.

  7. Users of international communication resources should create an international telecommunications fund to help developing countries.

  8. Public interest has to be defined in the light of the privatization of former space-related public companies.

  9. United Nations Principles on Remote Sensing should be elaborated on and renewed.

  10. For scientific and research purposes a data archive, based on the "Principle of Openness", should be established and maintained for at least a hundred years.

  11. Development of global navigation systems have led to a need to investigate issues of liability, reliability, quality and access.

  12. Due to explosive growth in space activities there is a need for an adequate international regulatory framework.

Workshop on Regulatory and Conflict Resolution Issues

  1. The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) strengthen their coordination with other relevant international organizations.

  2. That COPUOS and OOSA provide the means for input from private industry and its relevant international institutions such as the International Chamber of Commerce.

  3. That COPUOS and OOSA start considering the elaboration of, and efficient machinery for, the settlement of legal disputes arising in relation to space commercialization.

Space Law and Maintaining the Space Environment

  1. When planning space missions the "principle of preserving the astronomical sky" should be taken into account.

  2. The need for a definition of "space object" and other terms.

  3. The need to encourage technical solutions for the de-orbiting of spacecraft as it is in the best interest of all users of operational orbits.

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