Communications and transit > Air transport co-operation committee : minutes of the first session : held at Geneva from July 8th to 12th, 1930

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FOURTH MEETING
Held on Wednesday, July gth, 1930, at 3.30 p.m.
Chairman : M. de Brouckere.
Present : All those present at the preceding meeting.
IX. Draft Resolutions.
The Chairman, opening the discussion on the draft resolutions, stated that he had before him
the Rapporteurs’ drafts and the amendments of other members of the Committee. He proposed
that the Committee should first consider the Rapporteurs’ proposals and should then pass on to the
amendments.
He pointed out that the discussion was in the nature of a first reading, and opened it with
M. Bouche’s proposals (Annex 2).
(a) Proposals by M. Bouche.
M. Bouche stated that he had been under a misapprehension as to the nature of the draft
resolutions requested by the Chairman. The document he had drawn up did not contain all his
conclusions. He apologised for having to read several supplementary draft resolutions, but he
could not allow it to be thought that the conclusions to which he attached chief importance were
included in his proposals.
The Chairman stated that all the supplementary proposals would of course be taken equally
into consideration, as the final draft of the resolutions was reserved for the second reading.
M. Fisch observed that several draft resolutions might refer to the same subject. It might
therefore be inconvenient to discuss all the proposals separately-
The Chairman considered that that remark was very apt. He therefore proposed the following
procedure : the Committee would discuss the Rapporteurs’ drafts ; during the discussion, the
authors of amendments could submit their remarks, which would be considered at the same time.
At the end of the Committee’s work, the final drafts could be suitably classified.
M. Bouche read new proposals (Annex 3) following that contained in Annex 2.
The Chairman observed that M. Bouche’s proposal consisted of two parts, an introduction,
and a number of practical suggestions. He asked the Committee to adopt the introduction.
M. Bouche proposed that, in his introduction, the word “considers should be replaced by
“suggests”.
M. Romein ventured to ask to whom, in that case, the Committee made the suggestion.
M. Chaumie replied that the suggestion would be made to the Committee for Communications
and Transit.
The Chairman stated that the Committee would then be abandoning the question altogether
and such did not appear to be M. Bouche’s intention, as he provided that the Committee, at its
future sessions, would be responsible for the organisation. Would it not be possible to word the
introduction as follows :
“ The Committee considers that, in order to take due account of the international character
of air transport and of its still precarious position, a programme of co-operation must be drawn
up . . .” '
He would like to ask M. Bouche for an explanation. He had followed the Committee’s work
with great interest, and he had observed that it had unanimously concluded that services rendered
by air traffic would be particularly important over long distances. Why, therefore, should
M. Bouche’s proposal include the phrase : “at any rate, in the European area” ?
M. Bouche stated that, in his view, the meaning of that phrase was: “in the area of European
activities”.
The introduction was adopted with the above amendment.
Paragraph 1.—Expansion and systematising of 11 combined transport”.
M. Fisch considered that the Committee’s task was to allocate the work. There were already
two organisations, the International Air Traffic Association, and the International Chamber of
Commerce, dealing with the question. Was it therefore advisable to introduce a third ? - -