On 11 April, the Economic, Air and Space Law Department of the Faculty of Law held an International Scientific and Practical Round Table on "Legal Support of the Aerospace Industry".
"Ensuring space and aviation security is a pressing issue for Ukraine and other countries. The multi-vector nature and complexity of this problem requires the development of specific approaches to its solution, including legal ones. I would like to express my gratitude to the participants - domestic and foreign scholars and practitioners who specialise in the legal field of aviation and space relations and who have expressed a desire to share their experience in this area to develop certain mechanisms aimed at improving aviation and space security," said Volodymyr Nikitin, Dean of the Faculty of Law, in his opening remarks.
Participants at the event focused on the current state of the international space security system and the effectiveness of international space agreements, Ukraine's cooperation with space-faring nations for national security purposes, and the role of the UN in addressing new security threats and risks in the use of outer space.
Natalia Malysheva, Deputy Director of the International Space Law Centre, and Stefan Hobe, Director of the Institute of Aviation, Space and Cyber Law (Germany), focused on the benefits of a collective space security system and new types of threats, including cyber threats. Yevhen Rokytskyi and Dmytro Nikon spoke about the prospects of space activities and their importance for national security. Head of the Economic, Air and Space Law Department, Liubov Netska, noted the contradictory development of national space legislation in some countries, which lays down destructive trends for the international space security system.
The problems of legal support for aviation security and the measures taken to address them were highlighted in their speeches by Deputy Chairman of the State Aviation Administration of Ukraine Igor Zelinsky, Director of the ICAO Regional Training Centre Tetiana Zagniy, and Professor Dmytro Bezzubov.
During the discussion of the opinions expressed by experts, practising lawyers, and scientists, the roundtable participants developed a number of important conclusions and recommendations, the implementation of which will help to improve aviation and space security, and embodied them in a joint resolution, which was also supported by the students and postgraduates present.