International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)

HISTORY AND PRESENT STATUS

The primary aims of ICAO are to develop principles and techniques of international air navigation and to foster the planning and development of international air transport so as to ensure the safe and orderly growth of international civil aviation throughout the world.

South Africa became a member in 1947, having ratified the Chicago Convention of 1944, on 1 March 1947. Since 10 June 1994 South African has, once again, fully participated in ICAO following an executive committee decision to remove all restrictions on South Africa.

On 31 March 2003, during an extraordinary Assembly of ICAO, South Africa was elected to the ICAO Council. A Permanent Representative has been appointed by the Minister of Transport to represent South Africa on the ICAO Council and to establish a South African office at the ICAO headquarters in Montreal Canada.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND COOPERATING ORGANISATIONS

Department of Transport
South African Civil Aviation Authority

RELEVANT TREATIES/PROTOCOLS ETC

Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention, 1944)

International Air Services Transit Agreement (1944)

International Air Transport Agreement (1944)

Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft (Geneva Convention: 1948)

Convention on Damage Caused by Foreign Aircraft to Third Parties on the Surface (Rome Convention: 1952)

Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air (Warsaw Convention: 1929)

Convention, supplementary to the Warsaw Convention, Performed by a person other than the Contracting Carrier (Guadalajara Convention: 1961)

Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (Tokyo Convention: 1970)

Convention for the Suspension of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (Hague Convention: 1970)

Convention for the Suspension of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Montreal Convention: 1971)

Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purposes of Detection (MEX Convention: 1991)