Aviation law

Aviation law, including aviation law and air law, refers to the area of ​​law that deals with laws, regulations and other legal matters relating to aviation (specifically Wysk, in:. Grave sir / Reidt / Wysk, aviation law, Introduction para 1 et seq.)

When it comes to the concerns of a State, such as air superiority, first national law applies. In Germany there is to it a number of pieces of legislation and regulations: The Aviation Act ( LuftVG ) regulates, among other things, the use of airspace by aircraft, the Aviation Security Act ( Aviation Security ) security and the Air Accident Investigation Law ( FlUUG ) the investigation of accidents and incidents the operation of civil aircraft.

In Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, the Aviation Act (LFG ) is the central national rules.

In addition, international agreements apply when several states are concerned, for example, when using foreign airspace or landing rights: On the 1944 Chicago Convention setting up the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO goes back. The Warsaw Convention on International Carriage by air traffic dealt with transportation rules and liability issues in international aviation. It has now been replaced by the Montreal Convention of 1999.

Air services between countries is largely regulated, moreover, on the basis of bilateral air services agreements. In these agreements, the Parties and certain of accurately defined traffic rights shall grant one another ( freedoms of the air), which are left to each of them designated air carriers of commercial application.