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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ANNEX 9.
PROPOSAL BY M. PITTARD.
[C.C.T. /A.C. /6.]
The Committee,
Considering that air insurance constitutes an important factor of financial stability and
security ;
That air insurance is daily assuming a more and more compulsory character ;
That in the present state of national laws on insurance, unification in this respect can more
easily be achieved in the economic sphere :
Approves the study of this question on the basis of an international mutual insurance company
to which all the air undertakings would belong.
ANNEX 10.
PROPOSALS BY M. DE VEER.
[C.C.T. /A.C. /12.]
Any commercial transport of passengers, goods or mail across the territory of each of the
contracting States shall be subject to a special authorisation by the competent administration, and
may be subject to special regulations.
This authorisation, which must be requested through the competent authorities of the State
in which the air navigation undertaking has its headquarters, may only be refused in the following
cases :
(a) In the case of commercial transport between two points within the territory of the
State in question ;
(b) In the case of a regular commercial transport service, and if there are reasonable
grounds for such refusal.
4 In the event of the refusal referred to in paragraph (b) above, the competent authorities shall
make further endeavours to reach an agreement. In the absence of such agreement, the party
whose application has been refused may submit the dispute to the decision of an arbitral tribunal.
Unless the contracting parties agree to submit the dispute to a single arbitrator, the arbitral
tribunal shall consist of three arbitrators ; each of the States shall appoint one arbitrator and these
arbitrators shall jointly appoint an umpire. Failing the nomination of an arbitrator by one of the
parties, the other party may request the President of the Permanent Court of International Justice
to appoint this arbitrator. The award of the arbitral tribunal or of the arbitrator shall be final.
In so far as the contracting parties have not agreed concerning the rules of procedure, the Plague
Convention of 1907 concerning the pacific settlement of international disputes shall be applicable.
ANNEX 11.
PROPOSALS BY M. ALLARD.
[C.C.T./A.C./14.]
The Committee considers that it is necessary to undertake immediately the study of the
question of European postal air transport.
Without expressing an opinion on the question of the creation of a single operating company,
or of co-operation between national companies, the Committee decides upon the appointment of a
Sub-Committee which will be instructed :
(1) To prepare a map of the air lines to be established between the capitals of the Euro¬
pean countries and the points of importance to postal traffic in these countries ; for this purpose,
it will get into touch with the competent authorities in the different countries ;
(2) To study the question of the surtax ;
(3) To make all the necessary arrangements with the postal services concerned regarding,
in particular, the handing over of mail to the aeroplane, the distribution of mail, etc. ;
(4) To indicate the technical conditions for the normal marking out of routes by night ;
(5) To propose suitable means for increasing the efficiency of aircraft responsible for
ensuring the service in misty weather ;
(6) To draw up specifications of the performances and qualities required of one or more
postal aeroplanes to be utilised on the lines under consideration, account being taken of the
estimated freight and of local meteorological conditions ;
(7) To study the advantages and drawbacks of a single international company and of
co-operation between companies.
In both cases, a complete study should be made of the system contemplated. If the
Sub-Committee decides in favour of co-operation, it should fix, in agreement with the different
countries concerned, the sectors to be operated by each of them.