“Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air Convention (1929)”

(Convention on the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, 1929) referred to as the “Warsaw Convention” (Warsaw Convention), is October 12, 1929 set in Poland, Warsaw Convention on international air transport. February 13, 1933 entered into force. The Convention for the adjustment of international air transport between the basic system established contractual relationships. Its main contents are: 1. Application. Apply to all aircraft carrying passengers, baggage or cargo and pay in the international transportation, and air transport enterprises to apply for free transport aircraft. But not for the International Postal Convention in accordance with the provisions for the transport. 2. The carrier’s responsibility. For visitors from death, injury or physical damage and delays in transit of any other damages arising from loss if the accident causing such loss occurred in the aircraft or in the process of down aircraft, the carrier should be responsible; For any registered baggage or cargo through the destruction, loss or damage arising from losses if such losses of the incident in the process of air transport, the carrier should be responsible, but to prove that the carrier in order to avoid losses, has been take all necessary measures or not taking such measures to be irresponsible; in the transportation of goods or baggage, if the carrier proves that the loss was caused by driving on the operation or navigation of aircraft fault, and in all other aspects of the carrier and his agents have taken all necessary measures to avoid losses, to be irresponsible. 3, the transport document: the carriage of passengers the carrier must issue a ticket, the passenger checked baggage must be a baggage check, require the shipper to submit air waybill. Provisions of the Convention, the air waybill is a contract, to accept the conditions of carriage of goods and proof. 4. Carrier compensation limit of liability. Of passengers, each person is limited to 125,000 francs; of registered baggage and cargo transport, to 250 francs per kilogram is limited. Passenger or the shipper and the carrier can be entered into a special agreement to increase the amount of liability, but the Convention shall not enter into any lower limits of liability contract. 5, claims and time: the Convention provides that any damage to checked baggage or cargo, the recipient should immediately after the discovery of damage to the carrier to challenge; objections should be received within 3 days after the luggage, within 7 days of receipt of goods ; any delay, no later than the delivery of baggage or cargo in control of the recipient within 14 days from the date. The Convention also provides for prosecution of the time, litigation and the jurisdiction of several successive carriers for transport of the case, determining the respondent; litigation period of 2 years. 6, the provisions of the Joint Transportation: For the part of the transportation by air and partly by other means of transportation combined for the Convention applies only to air transportation. Most countries and regions participated in the Convention. China on July 20, 1958 to accede to the Convention, submitted a notice of 18 October the same year China began to take effect. Warsaw Convention and the subsequent related amendments to the Protocol, established by the Convention supplementary uniform rules of international air transport and the carrier system of general rules of accountability Warsaw system. But with the 1999 “unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air Conventions” (Montreal Convention) the increase in participating countries, the old Warsaw system will gradually withdraw from international air transport legal system.