Warsaw Convention

The Warsaw Convention on International Carriage by Air ( Warsaw Convention also short ) is an international treaty to simplify the rules on the transport of the International Air Transport, which has now been replaced for many countries by the Montreal Convention.

Nature

The agreement was signed in Warsaw on 12 October 1929 and ratified in 1933 for Germany. The agreement covers both international carriage by air of passengers, as well as the transport of air cargo. Is a prerequisite for the applicability of the Agreement that either the State of departure and the airport of destination have ratified this Agreement or that the applicability of the specific air transport agreement is expressly agreed.

Contents of the contract are

• Regulations on the ticket and the flight baggage check
• Regulations on the air waybill
• Questions of liability for a breach of tort and contract law type
• Special features of combined carriage
• The international law enforcement

The Warsaw Convention has been repeatedly amended and supplemented, so by the Hague Protocol of 1955, the Montreal Interim Agreement of 1966 and the four Montreal Protocols of 1975 in the aftermath. Compared Germany to most of the other signatory States the Warsaw Convention was recently in the amended by the Hague Protocol, which was ratified in 1958.

In the Warsaw Convention and its successor agreements is a fragmentary legal framework, which no longer corresponds in many respects with the requirements of today. In particular, the low liability limits are criticized. It has since been replaced in many countries by the Montreal Convention, signed in 1999; the Warsaw Convention, however, is definitely still in force in some states. Which countries are members of the Warsaw Convention, an international agreement or a result of the Montreal Convention, at the International Civil Aviation Organization may (ICAO ) are in demand.