Shaping a legal framework for China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System

As the service provision to Asia-Pacific region and the construction of global constellation are being pushed forward step by step, the lack of soft power on the governance and management over BDS, including institutional, policy and legal arrangements, is clipping the wings of the deployment, development, exploration and application of BDS, and constraining its further popularization at both the domestic and global level. Therefore, it is necessary to propose a comprehensive legal framework for BDS to keep the sustainable development of BDS and to balance the interests of all stakeholders in the value chain of BDS. Bearing that in mind, this paper offers the whole thinking of shaping that legal framework based on the specific analysis on the legal regimes on the supervision mechanism, certification system, mandatory application, ownership, operation, cost of recovery, sovereign rights, liability regime, data and privacy protection as well as other legal issues in the context of BDS.