Treaty (14 June 1954)

June 14, 1954

PROTOCOL RELATING TO AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION

Note: The Philippine instrument of ratification was deposited with the ICAO, August 13, 1956. The Agreement entered into force. May 16, 1958, and with respect to the Philippines, on the same date. Reference: This Agreement is also published in 320 UNTS, p. 209. The Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization, HAVING MET in its Eighth Session, at Montreal, on the first day of June, 1954, and HAVING CONSIDERED it desirable to amend the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December, 1944, APPROVED, on the fourteenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, in accordance with the provisions of Article 94 (a) of the Convention aforesaid, the following proposed amendment to the said Convention: At the end of Article 45 of the Convention, the full stop shall be substituted by a comma, and the following shall be added, namely: "and otherwise than temporarily by decision of the Assembly, such decision to be taken by the number of votes specified by the Assembly. The number of votes so specified will not be less than three-fifths of the total number of contracting States.", SPECIFIED, pursuant to the provisions of the said Article 94 (a) of the said Convention, forty-two as the number o£ contracting States upon whose ratification the proposed amendment aforesaid shall come into force, and RESOLVED that the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization draw up a Protocol, in the English, French and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity, embodying the proposed amendment above mentioned and the matters hereinafter appearing. CONSEQUENTLY, pursuant to the aforesaid action of the Assembly, This Protocol shall be signed by the President of the Assembly and its Secretary General; This Protocol shall be open to ratification by any State which has ratified or adhered to the said Convention on International Civil Aviation; The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the International Civil Aviation Organization;This Protocol shall come into force among the States which have ratified it on the date on which the forty-second instrument of ratification is so deposited; The Secretary General shall immediately notify all contracting States of the deposit of each ratification of this Protocol; The Secretary General shall immediately notify all States parties or signatories to the said Convention of the date on which this Protocol comes into force; With respect to any contracting State ratifying this Protocol after the date aforesaid, the Protocol shall come into force upon deposit of its instrument of ratification with the International Civil Aviation Organization. IN FAITH WHEREOF, the President and the Secretary General of the Eighth Session of the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization being authorized thereto by the Assembly, sign this Protocol. DONE at Montreal on the fourteenth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four in a single document in the English, French and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity. This Protocol shall remain deposited in the archives of the International Civil Aviation Organization; and certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by the Secretary General of the Organization to all States parties or signatories to the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December, 1944.

WALTER BINAGHI

President of the Assembly CARL LJUNGBERG Secretary General of the Assembly Parties to the Agreement as of December 31, 1965 Afghanistan Jamaica Algeria Japan Argentina Jordan Australia Kenya Austria Korea Belgium Kuwait Bolivia Laos Brazil Lebanon Burma Liberia Cambodia Libya Cameroon Luxembourg Canada Madagascar Central African Republic Malawi Ceylon Malaysia Chad Mali Chile NigerChina Nigeria Colombia Norway Congo (Brazzaville) Pakistan Congo (Leopoldville) Panama Costa Rica Paraguay Cuba Peru Cyprus Philippines Czechoslovakia Poland Dahomey Portugal Denmark Rwadan Dominican Republic Saudi Arabia Ecuador Senegal El Salvador Sierra Leone Ethiopia Somali Republic Finland South Africa France Spain Gabon Sudan Federal Republic of Germany Sweden Ghana Iceland Greece Indonesia Guatemala Tanzania Guinea Thailand Haiti Togo Honduras Trinidad and Tobago Iran Tunisia Iraq Turkey Ireland United Arab Republic Israel United Kingdom Italy Switzerland Ivory Coast Syrian Arab Republic United States of America Viet-nam Upper Volta Yemen Arab Republic Uruguay Yugoslavia Venezuela Zambia