Paris Convention
Convention Relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation Signed at Paris, October 13, 1919
(Paris Convention)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BELGIUM, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CHINA,
CUBA, ECUADOR, FRANCE, GREECE, GUATEMALA, HAITI, THE HEDJAZ, HONDURAS, ITALY, JAPAN,
LIBERIA, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, PERU, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROUMANIA, THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE
STATE, SIAM, CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND URUGUAY,
Recognising the progress of aerial navigation, and that the establishment of regulations of universal application will be to the interest of all;
Appreciating the necessity of an early agreement upon certain principles and rules calculated to prevent controversy;
Desiring to encourage the peaceful intercourse of nations by means of aerial communications;
Have determined for these purposes to conclude a convention, and have appointed as their
Plenipotentiariesthe following, reserving the right of substituting others to sign the same convention:
Who have agreed as follows:
CHAPTER I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
Article 1.
The High Contracting Parties recognise that every Power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory.
For the purpose of the present Convention, the territory of a State shall be understood as including the national territory, both that of the mother country and of the colonies, and the territorial waters adjacent thereto.
Article 2.
Each contracting State undertakes in time of peace to accord freedom of innocent passage above its territory to the aircraft of the other contracting States, provided that the conditions laid down in the present Convention are observed.
Regulations made by a contracting State as to the admission over its territory of the aircraft of the other contracting States shall be applied without distinction of nationality.
Article 3.
Each contracting State is entitled for military reasons or in the interest of public safety to prohibit the aircraft of the other
(Paris Convention)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BELGIUM, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CHINA,
CUBA, ECUADOR, FRANCE, GREECE, GUATEMALA, HAITI, THE HEDJAZ, HONDURAS, ITALY, JAPAN,
LIBERIA, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, PERU, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROUMANIA, THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE
STATE, SIAM, CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND URUGUAY,
Recognising the progress of aerial navigation, and that the establishment of regulations of universal application will be to the interest of all;
Appreciating the necessity of an early agreement upon certain principles and rules calculated to prevent controversy;
Desiring to encourage the peaceful intercourse of nations by means of aerial communications;
Have determined for these purposes to conclude a convention, and have appointed as their
Plenipotentiariesthe following, reserving the right of substituting others to sign the same convention:
Who have agreed as follows:
CHAPTER I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
Article 1.
The High Contracting Parties recognise that every Power has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the air space above its territory.
For the purpose of the present Convention, the territory of a State shall be understood as including the national territory, both that of the mother country and of the colonies, and the territorial waters adjacent thereto.
Article 2.
Each contracting State undertakes in time of peace to accord freedom of innocent passage above its territory to the aircraft of the other contracting States, provided that the conditions laid down in the present Convention are observed.
Regulations made by a contracting State as to the admission over its territory of the aircraft of the other contracting States shall be applied without distinction of nationality.
Article 3.
Each contracting State is entitled for military reasons or in the interest of public safety to prohibit the aircraft of the other