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The Hague Protocol, officially the Protocol to Amend the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air, is a treaty signed on September 28, 1955, in The Hague. It serves to amend the Warsaw Convention. While officially the Hague Protocol is intended to become a single entity with the Warsaw Convention,[1] it has only been ratified by 137 of the original 152 parties to the Warsaw Convention.[2] The binding version of the treaty is written in French, but certified versions also exist in English and Spanish. The official depository of the treaty is the Government of Poland.[3]

Hague Protocol

Protocol to Amend the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air
Signed	28 September 1955
Location	The Hague
Effective	1 August 1963
Parties	137
Depositary	Government of Poland
Languages	French, English, Spanish

The Warsaw Convention

The Warsaw Convention was established to create a legal basis for commercial aviation, both cargo and passenger. Specifically, it allowed for the basis of liability to be assigned to air-carriers in the event of an accident.[4]

Purpose

There were multiple reasons as to why the Hague Protocol was added as a provision to the Warsaw Convention. Firstly, as the original Convention was written in 1929 and with the advance of technology and law the original treaty had to be updated.[5] Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the Hague Protocol limited the liability that commercial airliners would have to take on in the event of an accident.[6]

References

External links

• The text of the Hague Protocol (as presented to and ratified by the United States Senate)
• The parties to both the Warsaw Convention and the Hague Protocol, as reported to Poland and recorded by the ICAO

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