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 12.
PROPOSAL BY COLONEL ISLER AND M. PITTARD.
[C.C.T./A.C./s.]
1 he Committee,
Considering that it is essential for economic organisation, operation and legislation to be kept
in constant harmony with the progress of aeronautical technique ;
That, outside the sphere of activity assigned to the International Air Navigation Commission,
problems will constantly arise, differing either in their special character or by reason of regional or
local interests ;
That, to obtain this desired harmon}/, it is essential to work according to a single plan, a single
method, and a uniform documentation, and with the speed demanded by the solution of continually
recurring questions :
Votes the following resolution :
“The Committee is invited to study the advisability of setting up a permanent organ
responsible for co-ordinating the work of the different investigating bodies already in existence,
and for creating any new centres of study that may be necessary.”
ANNEX 13.
DRAFT REPORT.
[C.C.T./A.C./15.]
The Air Transport Co-operation Committee met from July 8th to 12th, 1930, on the convocation
of the Chairman of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, in
accordance with the following resolution of the latter Committee :
“The Committee considers it desirable to entrust to a special Committee of Enquiry the
question of the action to be taken on the resolution of the last Assembly concerning economic
co-operation between air-navigation undertakings, in conformity with the recommendation
unanimously adopted by the Committee of Experts on Civil Aviation of the Preparatory
Commission for the Disarmament Conference.
“The composition of this Committee will be fixed by the Chairman of the Advisory and
Technical Committee, who is empowered to take all the necessary steps to promote co-oper¬
ation between the Governments concerned.
“The Committee of Enquiry thus constituted will also have to study the questions of
international organisation in air navigation raised at the Third General Conference on Commu¬
nications and Transit and of making any suggestions to promote their settlement, if it considers
it possible and desirable to do so.”
The composition of the Committee was as follows :
The Committee took cognisance of the enquiries into the economic, administrative and legal
situation of international air navigation carried out at the request of the Chairman of the Advisory
and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit (see document C. 339. M. 139.1930. VIII).
It proceeded to an exchange of views on the questions raised in these various enquiries. It
considered that, owing to the complexity of the problems before it, its main task at this first session
should be to draw up a definite programme of study, in order to be able to reach the greatest possible
number of practical conclusions at a later session.
The Committee feels called upon, at the outset of the present report, to record its view that
the present economic situation of civil aviation, despite the progress achieved, is not as satisfactory
as the state of technical development should permit, and that it is only by means of increasingly
close international co-operation that this situation can be improved.
I. Relations between Civil and Military Aeronautics.
The Committee did not feel called upon to discuss the relations between civil and military
aeronautics, a question in the province of the Disarmament Commission and the Disarmament
Conference. The Committee thought that its duty consisted only in investigating the measures
to be taken and the progress to be anticipated from enhanced international co-operation with a
view to enabling civil air transport to render the economic services to the community of which it is
capable and hence freeing it as far as possible from all other preoccupations.
II. Unification of Public International Law on Air Navigation.
The Committee regards as particularly desirable the application of common rules of public
international law in regard to air navigation in every country, or at least in the greatest possible
number of countries. It noted the negotiations in progress between the contracting parties to