Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space ( English Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space , COPUOS ), the Committee United Nations for regulations in the space . This standing committee was established by the UN General Assembly on December 12, 1959 through Resolution 1472 as an instrument for the development of space law . In 1959 the committee had 24 members, in 2019 there are 92 members
COPUOS consists of three committees that meet once a year:
- a main committee and two sub-committees :
- the scientific-technical sub-committee WTUA (chairman: Ulrich Huth) and
- the Legal Subcommittee (RUA).
The task of the committee secretariat is taken over by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna .
See also
Web links
- COPUOS website
- COPUOS information from the Federal Foreign Office
- Race for space, magazine for the United Nations and its specialized agencies, issue 4/2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/copuos/history.html
- ↑ http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/members/index.html accessed on July 10, 2019
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