Legal Subcommittee: 2025

Sixty-fourth session (5-16 May 2025)

Webcast

Morning Meeting Afternoon Meeting
5 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1074 meeting
5 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1075 meeting
6 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1076 meeting 6 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1077 meeting
7 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1078 meeting 7 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1079 meeting
8 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1080 meeting 8 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1081 meeting
9 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1082 meeting 9 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1083 meeting
12 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1084 meeting 12 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1085 meeting
13 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1086 meeting 13 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1087 meeting
14 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1088 meeting 14 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1089 meeting
15 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1090 meeting 15 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1091 meeting
16 May 2025 a.m. LSC 1092 meeting 16 May 2025 p.m. LSC 1093 meeting

Session Documents

Statements

Meeting Guidelines

Daily Journals

Technical Presentations

SYMPOSIUM

Digital Recordings

Annotated Provisional Agenda and Indicative Schedule of Work

Schedule of Informal Meetings of LSC Working Groups

Working Group on the Status and Application of the Five United Nations Treaties on Outer Space
  • No informal meetings are currently planned. Updates, if any, will be shared in due course.
Working Group on the Definition and Delimitation of Outer Space
  • No informal meetings are currently planned. Updates, if any, will be shared in due course.
Working Group on Legal Aspects of Space Resource Activities
  • 7 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 pm. Vienna time/CEST in room M3 of the VIC (MS Teams hybrid connection available to WG members)
  • 8 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 pm. Vienna time/CEST in room M3 of the VIC (MS Teams hybrid connection available to WG members)
  • 9 May 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 am, Vienna time/CEST in room M3 of the VIC (MS Teams hybrid connection available to WG members)
  • 13 May 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 am, Vienna time/CEST in room M3 of the VIC (MS Teams hybrid connection available to WG members)

Schedule of other meetings

Schedule of informal consultations

On UNISPACE IV (hybrid, link provided to States members of the Committee)
  • 6 May 2025, 13:30 - 14:45, Vienna time/CEST, room M3 of the VIC
  • 8 May 2025, 09.00 - 10.00, Vienna time/CEST, room M3 of the VIC
  • 12 May 2025, 09.00 - 10.00, Vienna time/CEST, room M3 of the VIC
On ATLAC (hybrid, link provided to States members of the Committee)
  • 9 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00, Vienna time/CEST, room M3 of the VIC
  • 12 May 2025, 14:00 - 15.00, Vienna time/CEST, room M3 of the VIC
  • 13 May 2025, 14:00-15:00, Vienna time/CEST, room M3 of the VIC

Side event information (information will continue to be updated as details are confirmed)

Date Side Event Information
Monday
05.05.2025
Commercial Perspectives on Space Situational Awareness
A side event organized by the Office for Outer Space Affairs
From 13:30 to 14:30 Vienna Vienna Time (CEST), Room M3 at the Vienna International Centre and via virtual connection
This event will be followed by a coffee break sponsored by Luxembourg in coffee area MO1 from 14:30 Vienna Time (CEST)
Tuesday
06.05.2025
Space traffic: managing vs coordinating - what's the difference and why it matters
A joint side event co-organized by the European Union and the Office for Outer Space Affairs
From 9:00 to 9:45 Vienna Time (CEST), Room M3 at the Vienna International Centre and via virtual connection
Wednesday
07.05.2025
Enabling active debris removal and in-orbit servicing missions - perspectives from the UK, New Zealand, and Japan
A joint side event co-organized by the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan, and the Office for Outer Space Affairs
From 14:00 to 15:00 Vienna Time (CEST), Press Room at the Vienna International Centre and via virtual connection

Who Owns Space Innovation? Between Sovereignty and International Cooperation
A side event organized by the European Space Policy Institute
Starting 18:30 Vienna Time (CEST), at the European Space Policy Institute Premises in Vienna
Thursday
08.05.2025
The Global Space Law Project: supporting space nations through law and policy
A side event organized by the Office for Outer Space Affairs
From 13:15 to 14:00 Vienna Time (CEST), Press Room at the Vienna International Centre and via virtual connection
Wednesday
14.05.2025
Book Launch Side Event of "Si Tala at ang Kanyang Lakbay Kalawakan (Tala and Her Journey to Space)"
A side event organized by the Philippines
From 13:00 to 13:45 Vienna Time (CEST), Room M5 at the Vienna International Centre

LSC 2024 Session Page

VIRTUAL BRIEFING TO THE PERMANENT MISSIONS ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE UPCOMING SESSION

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, in its capacity as the secretariat of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Subcommittees, has the pleasure to invite Member States of the United Nations and permanent observers of the Committee to a briefing in preparation for the upcoming session of the Subcommittee.

The Briefing, scheduled for Thursday, 10 April 2025, starting at 14:00 CET (2.00 p.m. Vienna time), will take place in CR-3 of the Vienna International Centre and on MS Teams.

You can access (i) the briefing presentation here and (ii) the presentation for Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities Information Repository here.

Session Documents

Annotated Provisional Agenda (including indicative schedule of work) (A/AC.105/C.2/L.334)

A/AC.105/C.2/L.334

 

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

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

  

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

A/AC.105/C.2/

 

Series: A/AC.105/

A/AC.105/

 

General Assembly Resolution: International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (A/RES/79/87)

A/RES/79/87

 

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

 

  

LSC Reports

LSC Reports

 

COPUOS Reports

COPUOS Reports

 

 

Documents relating to the national legislation and practice relating to definition and delimitation of outer space (A/AC.105/865 and Addenda)

A/AC.105/865 & Addenda

 

Documents relating to the definition and delimitation of outer space: views of States members and permanent observers of the Committee (A/AC.105/1112 and Addenda)

A/AC.105/1112 & Addenda

  

Documents on Information relating to any practical case known that would warrant the definition and delimitation of outer space (A/AC.105/1226 and Addenda)

A/AC.105/1226 & Addenda

 

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

ST/SPACE/61

 

 

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