Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
The first concrete step in effecting international regulation of air navigation was taken by the Aeronautical Commission of the Peace Conference in 1919 when it drew up the International Air Convention of October 13, 1919, instituting the International Commission for Air Navigation (which came into being in July, 1922) in order to provide rules for air traffic. Later modifications in the text of the Convention were authorized in June, 1929.
1 What The ICAN Is, International Commission for Air Navigation, Paris, September, 1944, p. 1–4.
2 Ibid., p. 11.
3 From information furnished by Dr. Albert Roper, Secretary-General of PICAO.