3. Past and future

The Convention on International Civil Aviation, generally referred to as the Chicago Convention, the city where it was signed in 1944, provides the rules of international civil aviation applicable between signatory countries. It includes 19 annexes detailing these rules, on which national legal frameworks are based. The Chicago Convention created the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a United Nations agency responsible for coordinating and regulating international air transport. It replaces the 1919 Paris Convention...