ETC. - United Nations Treaty Collection

340 Socidtd des Nations - Recuei des Traits. 1921
Each contracting Party shall select one or more aerodromes within its territory which must
be used by aircraft proceeding to or coming from the other country.
Each Party shall send to the other a list of the aerodromes selected in accordance with the
above. It may at any time amend or increase this list, provided that notification is given to the
other Party fifteen days beforehand.
Article 13.
Aircraft may not effect a landing before having touched at one of the aerodromes selected in
accordance with Article 12.
In cases of forced landing outside these aerodromes, the pilot must forthwith notify the nearest
local authorities and will be responsible that the crew and passengers do not leave, and that no
parts of the aircraft or its fittings or anything which it may be carrying are removed, until after
the arrival of such authorities.
Article 14.
All aircraft, crews and passengers and all air-traffic undertakings shall be subject to the legal
obligations entailed by the laws of the State in which they may be situated, in particular to customs,
revenue and public safety regulations. They shall also comply with all air navigation regulations
in force in the State in question.
Permits, certificates and licences, issued to aircraft and to the members of crews in respect of
air-navigation in one of the contracting States, shall have the same validity in the other State as
the equivalent documents issued for the same purposes by the latter.
Each of the contracting Parties shall be entitled to refuse to recognise as valid, for flight within
and over its own territory, flying certificates and licences issued to its nationals by the other contracting
Party.
Article 15.
Dropping of ballast other than fine sand or water from an aircraft in flight is prohibited.
Article 16.
Nothing whatever may be thrown or dropped from an aircraft in flight except ballast. There
shall be no exception to this rule except in cases where a special permit has been granted to this
effect.
As regards mails, the special provisions provided for in Article 8 remain reserved.
Article 17.
The contracting Parties will communicate reciprocally the rules and regulations governing
aerial navigation over their territory.
Article 18.
No military aircraft of either of the States may pass over the territory of the other without
special permission from the latter. Except as otherwise provided by such special permission, the
provisions of the present agreement shall be applicable.
Article 19.
The present agreement shall be ratified and the exchange of ratifications shal take place
at Berne as soon as possible. It shall co me in force from the da@ on which the exchange of ratifi.