The European Commission’s work on EU space law continues to centre on safety, resilience and sustainability pillars
The Commission’s targeted consultation outlines a prospective framework addressing collision avoidance and debris mitigation, protection of critical space infrastructure against physical and cyber threats, and life-cycle environmental assessment of space activities. EU and non-EU satellite operators planning to access the EU market should expect mandatory operational standards building on existing space traffic management initiatives and broader security and critical-entity legislation.
https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/newsroom/targeted-consultation-eu-space-law_en
Forthcoming EU-level space legislation is likely to exert extraterritorial effects on third-country operators
Academic and policy analysis of the anticipated EU Space Act suggests that common EU authorisation and operational rules, particularly on space traffic management and resilience, would apply to non-EU service providers offering space-based services into the EU, in some cases via a centralised EU authorising authority. U.S. and other third-country operators should therefore treat the emerging EU framework as a potential de facto global benchmark and begin mapping overlaps and tensions with their domestic licensing regimes.
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/anticipating-new-european-union-space-law
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