Project 2001: recommendations and results concerning the process of Privatisation and issue of economic law

摘要

During the term of the Project 2001 a number of general legal as well as factual developments took place concerning the privatization of space activities, which were discussed and handled in the Working Group on Privatization. In contrast to the technical Working Groups which were reviewing detail problems, focus in the Working Group Privatization rather was placed on the identification of development trends, model structures and action requirements for the development of a general legal framework for space activities. One of the general developments as defined above covers the privatization of the International Governmental Organisations (IGO's) in the field of telecommunications. At UNISPACE III, special attention was given to the interaction between public, semi-public and private actors in the space business. This is exactly the point where the current discussions about Public Private Partnership (PPP) concepts start from. In particular in hybrid forms of public/private cooperation and item requiring special attention is the safeguarding of the public interest, irrespective of any private economic structures.