United NationsOffice for Outer Space Affairs

Legal Subcommittee: 2024

Sixty-third session (15-26 April 2024)

WEBCAST (LSC PLENARY SESSIONS)

Statements

• List of Speakers

Digital Recordings of LSC 2024

Session Documents

Daily Journals

Technical Presentations

• List of technical presentations

International Conference on Space Resources

The International Conference on Space Resources will be held in Vienna on 15 April 2024, 3-6 p.m., at the Vienna International Center, in the Conference room M-Plenary. Click here for the Programme. The Conference will be webcast in all 6 languages of the United Nations. Click here for webcast.

Indicative schedule of work

• Provisional agenda
• Indicative schedule of work [ pdf]
• Unofficial estimated distribution of agenda items [ pdf]

Schedule of informal meetings of LSC Working Groups

Working Group on the Status and Application of the Five United Nations Treaties on Outer Space

• Informal meetings may be organized, as necessary. At present, no informal meetings have been scheduled

Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities

• 17 April 13:15-15:00, Meeting room M2
• 18 April 13:15-15:00, Meeting room M2
• 22 April 14:00-15:00, Meeting room M2

Schedule of informal consultations

Informal consultations by the delegation of Romania on the establishment of an action team to study a potential consultative mechanism for lunar activities within the framework of the Committee.

• 18 April 9:00-10:00, Meeting room M3
• 23 April 9:00-10:00, Meeting room M3

Informal consultations by the delegations of Argentina, Germany and Japan, entitled "Possible ways forward on urgent topics" on topics related to space traffic management and space debris. 

• 23 April 14:00-15:00, Meeting room M2 

APPLICATIONS TO ATTEND THE 63rd SESSION OF LSC AS AD HOC OBSERVER

• Honduras
• Principality of Liechtenstein
• Nepal
• League of Arab States
• Space Data Association (SDA)
• Space Renaissance International (SRI) ( received on 4 March 2024 and updated on 2 April 2024).

Side event information

• Reception hosted by the Chair of LSC, 15 April 2024, starting 1:00 p.m., Vienna time (CEST), Mozart Room at the VIC.
• "Space Sustainability Open Forum: Active Debris Removal", side event organized by the Office for Outer Space Affairs, 15 April 2024, starting 1:00 p.m., Vienna time (CEST, room M2 at the VIC. Click here to join the meeting virtually via Microsoft Teams.
• "Outer Space in the Zero Draft of the Pact of the Future: Perspectives and Next Steps", joint side event co-organized by the German UN Mission Vienna and the Office for Outer Space Affairs in kind cooperation with the German Space Agency at DLR, 16 April 2024, starting 1:15 p.m. Vienna time (CEST), room M3 at the VIC, hybrid format.
• "From WRC-23 to the next cycle: How to Make Everyone Happy? (Hint: You Can't)", side event organized by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), 16 April 2024, starting at 6:30 p.m. Vienna time (CEST), at the ESPI premises, Schwarzenbergplatz 16, TOP 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
• " Management and Sustainability of Outer Space Conference" briefing by Portugal, 16 April 2024, starting at 1:15 p.m. Vienna Time (CEST), room M4 at the VIC.
• "Space Law for New Space Actors", side event organized by the Office for Outer Space Affairs, 17 April 2024, starting 2:00 p.m. Vienna time (CEST), room M3 at the VIC, hybrid format.
• "The Registration Project: Supporting Implementation of Treaty Obligations related to the Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space. Phase One Study Findings and Next Steps", joint side event co-organized by the UK Space Agency and the Office for Outer Space Affairs, 18 April 2024, 2:15-2:45 p.m. Vienna time (CEST), room M3 at the VIC, hybrid format.  Click here to join the meeting virtually via Microsoft Teams.

Exhibition information

• "Astronomas", exhibition organized by the Permanent Mission of Spain, exhibition area M0E (M building of the Vienna International Centre, ground floor)

LSC 2023 Session Page

VIRTUAL BRIEFING TO THE PERMANENT MISSIONS ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE UPCOMING SESSION, TUESDAY, 19 MARCH, 2.00 p.m.

Click here for the briefing presentation

Session Documents

Procedural report of the Legal Subcommittee on its sixty-third session (A/AC.105/1311)

A/AC.105/1311

Final Report of the COPUOS 67th session (A/79/20)

A/79/20

Draft Report of the 63rd session (A/AC.105/C.2/L.329 & Addenda)

A/AC.105/C.2/L.329

Report of the Chair of the Working Group on the Status and Application of the Five United Nations Treaties on
Outer Space (A/AC.105/C.2/2024/TRE/L.1)

A/AC.105/C.2/2024/TRE/L.1

Report of the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities (A/AC.105/C.2/2024/SRA/L.1)

A/AC.105/C.2/2024/SRA/L.1

List of Participants (A/AC.105/C.2/2024/INF/55 & A/AC.105/C.2/2024/CRP.2)

PARTLIST

Conference Room Papers (A/AC.105/C.2/2024/CRP.)

CRP

Non-Papers

General exchange of views on potential legal models for activities in the exploration, exploitation and utilization of space resources

• Non-paper submitted by Luxembourg and Belgium: Expert meeting collecting preliminary inputs for consideration at the international conference in Vienna in 2024, held on 26 March 2024 in Luxembourg

Status and application of the five United Nations treaties on outer space, and ways and means, including capacity-building, to promote their implementation

• Non-Paper by the Chair of the Working Group:  Draft workplan on the exchange of views on the implementation of article XI of the Outer Space Treaty

Future role and method of work of the Committee

• Non-paper submitted by Portugal: Management and Sustainability of Outer Space Conference - Draft Lisbon Space Manifesto
• Non-paper submitted by the Secretariat:  Management of printed documents at sessions of the Committee and its subcommittees
• Non-paper submitted by the Delegation of Romania: Draft mandate, terms of reference and methods of work for an Action Team on Lunar Activities Consultation (ATLAC)

General exchange of information and views on legal mechanisms relating to space debris mitigation and remediation measures, taking into account the work of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee Committee

• Non-paper submitted by the Delegation of Japan:  Japan's view on the way forward to advancing the discussion on possible normative mechanisms on space debris mitigation and remediation measures under the framework of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Annotated Provisional Agenda (including indicative schedule of work) (A/AC.105/C.2/L.326)

A/AC.105/C.2/L.326

Series: A/AC.105/C.2/L.

A/AC.105/C.2/L.

Series: A/AC.105/

A/AC.105/

Series: A/AC.105/C.2/

A/AC.105/C.2/

Series: A/AC.105/2023/CRP.

A/AC.105/2023/CRP

Information for Participants (A/AC.105/C.2/2024/CRP.1)

CRP.1

Final Report of the 62nd session (A/AC.105/1285)

A/AC.105/1285

Final Report of the COPUOS 66th session (A/78/20)

A/78/20

General Assembly resolution: International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (A/RES/78/72)

A/RES/78/72

LSC Reports

LSC Reports

COPUOS Reports

COPUOS Reports

STSC Reports

STSC Reports

United Nations Treaties and Principles on Outer Space, including related General Assembly resolutions and other documents (ST/SPACE/61)

ST/SPACE/61