International Aviation Law & Policy - Comprehensive
Course content
DAY 1
Part I The Chicago Convention System
a. The Chicago Convention of 1944:
- Background & rationale
- Main purposes & principles
- System & overview of important provisions (incl. main Annexes)
b. ICAO – today’s tasks & responsibilities:
- Safety incl. Liability (Warsaw/Montreal system and Rome +) Conventions
- Security
- Environment
- Other
c. Economic regulation of international air transport:
- Chicago Convention provisions
- Multilateral Transit Agreement
- Multilateral ‘Five Freedoms’ Agreement
- The bilateral system
Part II Bilateral air transport agreements – commercial, political & ‘technical’ aspects
- Bermuda I Agreement – background & rationale
- Standard bilateral - Review of main provisions
- Special issue: National ownership & control
- Consequences of bilateral system (competition/trade/M&A)
DAY 2
Part III EU (economic) regulation of air transport
- Origin/background – ECAC – JAA - EASA
- Eurocontrol
- EU regulatory system (Treaty of Rome +)
- Intra-EU liberalization
- EU competition law: application to state aid, mergers & acquisitions
- Passenger rights, price transparency, ‘blacklisting’
DAY 3
PART III EU (economic) regulation of air transport (cont’d)
- Airport package (slots, ground handling, charges)
- Emission trading system (ETS) & aviation (time-permitting)
Part IV US deregulation
- Open Skies 1992
- International alliances & antitrust law
- Standard Open Skies agreement – review of main provisions
- Recent developments (e.g. MALIAT, M&A, ’metal neutrality’)
DAY 4
Part V EU aviation relations with 3rd countries
- 2002 Open Skies judgment of the European Court & Commission follow-up
- EU – US 1st stage Air Transport Agreement 2007 + Protocol 2010 – review of main provisions
- Horizontal agreements
- EU and member States – coordination of external relations/negotiations
- Other EU ‘comprehensive agreements’
- ECAA, Euromed & other (groups of) countries – promotion/adoption of EU ‘aviation acquis’
(optional) test/exam
Course prerequisites
(Some) practical experience in the field of international aviation and/or knowledge of international law/relations is desirable but not essential.
Participants are kindly requested to bring a laptop to the course to access course material which will only be provided in electronic format.
Scheduled dates
None, request by mail
