The document discusses international conventions and agreements related to civil aviation and air law. It outlines different theories of airspace sovereignty and rights of overflight. The Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation established rules for airspace, aircraft registration and safety. It defines rights for signatories related to international air travel and exempts commercial jet fuel from taxes. The convention established the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which became a UN specialized agency responsible for international aviation standards.

1. CHICAGO CONVENTION ON
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION

2. Theories As To Air Space
• Air Space Is Entirely Free And Open To All
• Lower Zone Of Territorial Space Belongs To The
Subjacent State While Higher Zone Of Air Space Is Fre
• Air Space- An Unlimited Height Lies Within The
Domain Of The Subjacent State
• Air Space Within Sovereignty Of The Subjacent State
Subject To Servitude Of Innocent Passage For Foreign
Civil Aircraft But Not Military Aircraft

3. AIR LAW
AERIAL NAVIGATION AIRCRAFT HIJACKING
PARIS CONVENTION OF AERIAL
NAVIGATION,1919
TOKYO CONVENTION,1963
HAVANA CONVENTION, 1928 HAGUE CONVENTION, 1970
WARSAW CONVENTION, 1929 MONTREAL CONVENTION, 1971
CHICAGO CONVENTION ON
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION, 1944
THE SUPPRESSION OF UNLAWFUL ACTS
AGAINST SAFETY OF CIVIL AVIATION ACT,

4. Chicago Convention on International
Civil Aviation
• the right to fly over a foreign country without
landing
• the right to refuel or carry out maintenance in
a foreign country without embarking or
disembarking passengers or cargo

5. • the right to fly from one's own country to
another and from another country to own
country
• the right to fly between two foreign countries
on a flight originating or ending in one's own
country
• the right to fly inside a foreign country, with
and without continuing to one's own country

6. • The Convention establishes rules of airspace,
aircraft registration and safety, and details the
rights of the signatories in relation to air travel
• The Convention also exempts commercial air
fuels from tax.
• on April 4, 1947 ICAO came into being. In
October of the same year, ICAO became a
specialized agency of the United Nations
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

7. • As of 2013, the Chicago Convention has 191
state parties, which includes all member
states of the United Nations—except
Dominica, Liechtenstein, and Tuvalu—plus the
Cook Islands