COMMITTEE ON RULES AND REGULATIONS S. F. N. GIE (Union of South Africa), Chairman BRIGADIER GENERAL RAFAEL SÁENZ (Chile) AIR VICE MARSHAL KAREL JANOUŠEK (Czechoslovakia) WALTER F. WALKER (Liberia) On November 30, 1944, the Coordinating Committee was appointed by the Executive Committee, with the following membership: COORDINATING COMMITTEE JOHN MARTIN (Union of South Africa), Chairman of Committee I EDMUNDO PENna Barbosa dA SILVA (Brazil), Alternate for Chairman of ESCOTT REID (Canada) LUIS MACHADO (Cuba) W. C. G. CRIBBETT (United Kingdom) The Conference was divided into four Technical Committees. The officers of these Committees, as elected by the Conference, and officers of the Subcommittees established by the Committees, are listed below: COMMITTEE I MULTILATERAL AVIATION CONVENTION AND INTERNATIONAL AERONAUTICAL BODY Chairman: JOHN MARTIN (Union of South Africa) Secretary: PAUL T. DAVID Assistant Secretary: VIRGINIA C. LITTLE Subcommittee 1 International Organization Chairman: VISCOUNT ALAIN DU PARC (Belgium) Secretary: PAUL T. DAVID Subcommittee 2 Air Navigation Principles Chairman: L. WELCH POGUE (United States of America) Subcommittee 3 Air Transportation Principles Chairman: H. J. SYMINGTON (Canada) Secretary: MELVIN A. BRENNER COMMITTEE II TECHNICAL STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES Chairman: M. P. L. STEENBERGHE (Netherlands) Vice Chairman: A. D. McLEAN (Canada) Reporting Delegate: EDWARD WARNER (United States of America) Assistant Secretary: ALFRED HAND Subcommittee 1 Communications Procedures; Airways Systems Chairman: STANISLAW KRZYCZKOWSKI (Poland) Subcommittee 2 Rules of the Air; Air Traffic Control Practices Chairman: GUILLERMO GONZÁLEZ (Mexico) Vice Chairman: TIMOTHY J. O'DRISCOLL (Íreland) Secretary: KENNETH MATUCHA Subcommittee 3 Standards Governing the Licensing of Operating and Mechanical Personnel; Log Books Chairman: MAJOR ALF HEUM (Norway) Vice Chairman: GENERAL ARMANDO REVOREDO (Peru) Subcommittee 4 Airworthiness of Aircraft Chairman: AIR VICE MARSHAL A. FERRIER (Canada) Vice Chairman: WING COMMANDER J. M. BUCKERIDGE (New Zealand) Secretary: OMER WELLING Subcommittee 5 Registration and Identification of Aircraft Chairman: COLONEL CHING-YEE LIU (China) Vice Chairman: CAPTAIN E. C. JOHNSTON (Australia) Secretary: JOHN T. MORGAN Subcommittee 6 Collection and Dissemination of Meteorological Information Chairman: J. PATTERSON (Canada) Vice Chairman: MAJOR JORGE MARCANO (Venezuela) Secretary: DELBERT M. LITTLE Subcommittee 7 Aeronautical Maps and Charts Chairman: PAUL A. SMITH (United States of America) Vice Chairman: F. H. PETERS (Canada) Reporting Member: LIEUTENANT COLONEL J. C. T. WILLIS (United Kingdom) Secretary: JEREMIAH S. MORTON Subcommittee 8 Customs Procedures; Manifests Chairman: VERNON G. CRUDGE (United Kingdom) Subcommittee 9 Accident Investigation, Including Search and Salvage Chairman: AIR COMMODORE VERNON-BROWN (United Kingdom) Secretary: CLAUDE M. STERLING Subcommittee 10 Publications and Forms Chairman: CAPTAIN E. C. JOHNSTON (Australia) Secretary: FLOYD B. BRINKLEY COMMITTEE III PROVISIONAL AIR ROUTES Chairman: ADOLF A. BERLE, JR. (United States of America) Secretary: HOWARD B. RAILEY Assistant Secretary: HARRY A. BOWEN Subcommittee 1 Standard Form of Provisional Route Agreements Chairman: WILHELM MUNTHE DE MORGENSTIERNE (Norway) Secretary: HoWARD B. RAILEY COMMITTEE IV INTERIM COUNCIL Chairman: HAHNEMANN GUIMARÃES (Brazil) Vice Chairman: KIA-NGAU CHANG (China) Secretary: GEORGE C. NEAL Assistant Secretary: ERWIN R. MARLIN Subcommittee 1 Composition and Organization of the Interim Council Chairman: S. F. N. GIE (Union of South Africa) Secretary: ERWIN R. MARLIN Subcommittee 2 Powers and Duties of the Interim Council Chairman: GENERAL ARMANDO REVOREDO (Peru) Secretary: GEORGE C. NEAL The Final Plenary Session was held on December 7, 1944. As a result of the deliberations of the Conference, as recorded in the minutes and reports of the respective Committees and Subcommittees and of the Plenary Sessions, the following instruments were formulated: INTERIM AGREEMENT ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION Interim Agreement on International Civil Aviation, which is attached hereto as Appendix I.1 1 Post, p. 44.-EDITOR. CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION Convention on International Civil Aviation, which is attached hereto as Appendix II.2 INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES TRANSIT AGREEMENT International Air Services Transit Agreement, which is attached hereto as Appendix III.3 INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT AGREEMENT International Air Transport Agreement, which is attached hereto as Appendix IV.^ The following resolutions and recommendations were adopted: RESOLVES: I PREPARATION OF THE FINAL ACT The International Civil Aviation Conference That the Secretariat be authorized to prepare the Final Act in accordance with the suggestions proposed by the Secretary General in Journal No. 34, December 4, 1944, and that the Coordinating Committee review the text; That the Final Act contain the definitive texts of the instruments formulated by the Conference in plenary session, and that no changes be made therein at the Final Plenary Session. WHEREAS: II DRAFT TECHNICAL ANNEXES The largest possible degree of international standardization of practice in many matters is important to safe, expeditious, and easy air navigation; and WHEREAS: These matters typically involve problems of great variety and complexity, and require that much new ground be explored; and WHEREAS: Considerable progress has been made, during the discussions of the present Conference, in the development of codes of practice agreed upon as proper by the technicians participating in the discussions, but the time has been too limited, and the number of personnel able 2 Post, p. 59.-EDITOR. 3 Post, p. 87.-EDITOR. Post, p. 91.-EDITOR. to participate directly too small, to permit carrying the discussions to final conviction of the adequacy or correctness of certain of the determinations here made; RESOLVES: The International Civil Aviation Conference That the drafts of annexes for an international civil aviation convention, which are attached hereto as Appendix V, be accepted by the Conference, upon the bases that: (a) The drafts as now presented shall be accepted by the participating States for immediate and continuing study; (b) They shall be accepted as constituting models of the desirable scope and arrangement of the several annexes; (c) The participating States undertake to forward to the Government of the United States (or to the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization if it shall in the meantime have been established), by May 1, 1945, any recommendations which they may have for necessary additions, deletions, or amendments; (d) The Government of the United States (or the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization) will transmit such suggestions to the other participating States in anticipation of meetings of the technical committees to be established by the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization for dealing with the subject matter of the various documents, such meetings to be held as soon as practicable thereafter for the purpose of ultimate acceptance of the annexes in final form for attachment to a convention. (e) Meanwhile, in so far as the Technical Subcommittees have been able to agree on recommended practices, the States of the world, bearing in mind their present international obligations, are urged to accept these practices as ones toward which the national practices of the several States should be directed as far and as rapidly as may prove practicable. WHEREAS: III TECHNICAL PERSONNEL The development and maintenance of suitable international standards in matters relating to international air navigation will require constant analysis, by technically qualified personnel, of the development of the pertinent arts and of the various practices existing with respect thereto; RESOLVES: The International Civil Aviation Conference That the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization, as soon as possible after its organization, should employ in its Secretariat a suitable body of personnel, expert in the fields of aeronautical science and practice in which continuing study will be particularly needed; and that such technically qualified members of the Secretariat should be charged to analyze and report to the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization on problems relating to the drafting of international standards and recommended practices and to conduct and report on such other studies as will promote the safe and efficient conduct of international air transportation. |