10. Authorisation Of Space Activities After The Entry Into Force Of The EU Reform Treaty

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This chapter describes the main contents of the European Union (EU) Draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities, Space Debris and Liability Convention. It is necessary and desirable for us to legislate more concretely the abovementioned draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities so as to mitigate or remove space debris. In December 2008, the EU adopted a Draft Code of Conduct (EU Draft CoC) for outer space activities. On September 2010, the EU revised a second draft of the EU Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities. The draft of the International Code of Conduct (the Code), dated March 31, 2014, was intended to be the subject of negotiations at the United Nations in New York from July 27-31, 2015. The code, a politically and not legally binding document, aims to establish some rules of good conduct for outer space activities. The author proposes the establishment of a new Asian-Pacific International and Environmental Monitoring Organization (tentative title) for prevention and mitigation of space debris.


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Sacha Garben

For a long time, space policy was pursued outside the EU framework either by MS individually or through independent cooperation structures, such as the European Space Agency (ESA). The intergovernmental ESA Convention was signed in Paris on 30 May 1975 by Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK and entered into force on 30 October 1980. While the EU’s involvement in space activities had been developing already since the 1980s, with the establishment of the Galileo and Copernicus space programmes at the turn of the millennium, these activities were only given a firm footing in the EU primary law by the ToL’s introduction of Article 189 TFEU.


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Özgün Erler Bayır ◽  
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Kevser Mermer Akmaz ◽  
Özgür Aktaş

Throughout the years, the identity and institutional capacity of the European Union (EU) has changed. As a global actor in international politics, the EU has perceived the need for developing a comprehensive space policy perspective. This perspective has evolved by the changing dynamics of the space ecosystem i.e., “New Space”, and it is a phenomenon that consists of new business models, new technologies, new markets, new value chains, and new actors. New actors in space activities have drastically altered the dynamics of space activities. This paper aims to examine the new actors in the context of European space governance, and scrutinise the tendencies of space companies so as to develop a better understanding of the European space system. The article concludes that, being aware of the undeniable importance of space applications and the security of space systems, the EU attaches importance to catching the “New Space” trend in its governance structure and encouraging appropriate changes in the sector.


2013 ◽  
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Rinus van Schendelen
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2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-224 ◽  
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Bernhard Wilpert

The paper presents an inside evaluation of the EuroPsyT project, funded by the EU Leonardo Program in 1999-2001. While standard research usually neglects to reflect on the internal and external constraints and opportunities under which research results are achieved, the paper stresses exactly those aspects: starting from a brief description of the overall objectives of the 11 countries project, the paper proceeds to describe the macro-context and the internal strengths and weaknesses of the project team, the internal procedures of cooperation,. and obstacles encountered during the research process. It winds up in noting some of the project's achievements and with a look towards future research.


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