A/RES/58/89 (iii) Information on the activities of international organizations relating to space law; (iv) Matters relating to: (b) a. The definition and delimitation of outer space; b. The character and utilization of the geostationary orbit, including consideration of ways and means to ensure the rational and equitable use of the geostationary orbit without prejudice to the role of the International Telecommunication Union; Consider the following single issues/items for discussion: (i) Review and possible revision of the Principles Relevant to the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space; 8 (ii) Examination of the preliminary draft protocol on matters specific to space assets to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, opened for signature at Cape Town, South Africa, on 16 November 2001: a. Considerations relating to the possibility of the United Nations serving as supervisory authority under the preliminary draft protocol; b. Considerations relating to the relationship between the terms of the preliminary draft protocol and the rights and obligations of States under the legal regime applicable to outer space; (iii) Contributions by the Legal Subcommittee to the Committee for the preparation of its report to the General Assembly for its review of the progress made in the implementation of the recommendations of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III); (c) Consider the practice of States and international organizations in registering space objects in accordance with the work plan adopted by the Committee; 9 5. Notes that the Legal Subcommittee, at its forty-third session, will submit its proposals to the Committee for new items to be considered by the Subcommittee at its forty-fourth session, in 2005; Notes also that, in the context of paragraph 4 (a) (ii) above, the Legal 6. Subcommittee will reconvene its Working Group with the terms of reference as agreed upon by the Legal Subcommittee, 10 to meet for three years, from 2002 to 2004; 7. Notes further that, in the context of paragraph 4 (a) (iii) above, the Group of Experts on the Ethics of Outer Space, invited by the Committee at its forty-fourth session to identify which aspects of the report of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization might need to be studied by the Committee and _______________ 8 See resolution 47/68. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/58/20), para. 199. 10 See A/AC.105/763 and Corr.1, para. 118, and A/AC.105/787, para.138. 9 3