Legal Subcommittee: 2025
Sixty-fourth session (5-16 May 2025)
Webcast
Meeting Guidelines
SYMPOSIUM
Digital Recordings
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
On the Proposal for a Study Group on Legal and Policy Aspects of Space Traffic by Germany and other delegations
- 7 May 2025, 09:00 - 10:00, Vienna time/CEST, room M3 of the VIC
- 9 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00, Vienna time/CEST, room M3 of the VIC
- 12 May 2025 12:00 - 13:00, 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 |
APPLICATIONS TO ATTEND THE 64TH SESSION OF LSC AS AD HOC OBSERVER
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
A/AC.105/C.2/L.335
A/AC.105/C.2/2025/TRE/L.1
A/AC.105/C.2/2025/DEF/L.1
A/AC.105/C.2/2025/SRA/L.1
PARTLIST
A/AC.105/C.2/L.334
CRP
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General exchange of views on the legal aspects of space traffic management
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Non-paper by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania and the United Arab Emirates:
Proposal for a Study Group on Legal and Policy Aspects of Space Traffic (rev1)
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Status and application of the five United Nations treaties on outer space, and ways and means, including capacity-building, to promote their implementation
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Discussions on organizational matters led by India:
Non-paper
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Informal Consultations on UNISPACE IV
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Non-paper on UNISPACE IV presented at the informal on 8 May 2025 (
PDF)
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Non-paper on UNISPACE IV presented at the informal on 8 May 2025 (
.docx)
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Non-paper on draft report language regarding UNISPACE IV presented at the informal on 12 May 2025 (
PDF)
A/AC.105/C.2/L.
A/AC.105/C.2/
A/AC.105/
A/RES/79/87
A/AC.105/1311
A/79/20
LSC Reports
COPUOS Reports
A/AC.105/865 & Addenda
A/AC.105/1112 & Addenda
A/AC.105/1226 & Addenda
ST/SPACE/61