International cooperation

In the field of international cooperation, the effectiveness of activities of stakeholders will be considerably enhanced by surveying and analysing relevant existing frameworks for, and modes of cooperation. In addition, support is often necessary in the building of new institutional cooperative frameworks for regulatory or policy purposes, coupling maximum efficiency with minimum effort and minimum disturbance of existing frameworks and laws. Is a new international bureaucracy indeed necessary or desirable? What legal and policy instruments are most appropriate for the particular cooperation envisaged? What needs to be done to make them work? Which precedents would be available?

Many projects in the portfolio of Black Holes’ experience testify to the ability of providing the necessary support in these matters, and the importance the specific rules and policies dealing with international cooperation have for the further development of space activities, but a number of those projects were essentially dedicated to issue of international cooperation at all levels, public and private.

Furthermore, a series of United Nations Workshops on Space Law Capacity Building, focusing on various forms of international cooperation. Those Workshops took place in The Hague (2002 ), Daejon (2003), Rio de Janeiro (2004), Abuja (2005), and Kyiv (2006).