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Ebola and the airplane – securing mobility through regime interactions and legal adaptation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2019

Gearóid Ó Cuinn Open the ORCID record for Gearóid Ó Cuinn [Opens in a new window]  and
Stephanie Switzer Open the ORCID record for Stephanie Switzer [Opens in a new window]
Gearóid Ó Cuinn*
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Centre for International Law and Human Rights, Law School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK; Global Legal Action Network, Garden Court Chambers, 57–60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, UK
Stephanie Switzer
Affiliation:
Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance, Strathclyde Law School, Level 3 Lord Hope Building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Abstract

This article concentrates on a particular controversy during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa; the mass cancellation of flights to and from affected countries. This occurred despite authoritative advice against such restrictions from the World Health Organization (WHO). During a public health emergency such as Ebola, the airplane sits at a site of regulatory uncertainty as it falls within the scope of two specialist and overlapping domains of international law; the WHO International Health Regulations (2005) and the Convention on International Civil Aviation. We explore how legal technicalities and objects, by promoting functional interactions between these two specialized regimes of law, were utilized to deal with this uncertainty. We show how the form and function of these mundane tools had a significant impact; assimilating aviation further into the system of global health security as well as instrumentalizing the aircraft as a tool of disease surveillance. This encounter of regimes was law creating, resulting in new international protocols and standards designed to enable the resumption of flights in and out of countries affected by outbreaks. This article therefore offers significant and original insights into the hidden work performed by legal techniques and tools in dealing with regime overlap. Our findings contribute to the wider international law literature on fragmentation and enrich our understanding of the significance of relational regime interactions in international law.

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Ebolafragmentationlegal toolsregime interactionstechnicalities
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 71 - 89
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© Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2018 

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Footnotes

The authors would like to thank Professor Elizabeth Kirk, Professor Joseph McMahon, Professor Jane Scoular, Dr Padraig McAuliffe, Professor Barry Rodger, Professor Elisa Morgera and two anonymous reviewers for their invaluable support and comments on earlier drafts of this article. Any errors are the authors’ own.

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84 Pursuant to ICAO, supra note 34, the ICAO Council requested that action be taken to, ‘Review existing SARPs related to passenger and crew health and develop new SARPs where appropriate with due consideration of global health issues and recent developments in air transport operations.’ All contracting states should be urged ‘to ensure the implementation of existing SARPs related to the health of passengers and crews.’ Pandemic influenza would also play a part in the expansion of the ICAO’s role in mitigating the risk of infectious disease spread via air travel; see generally ICAO, ‘The Postal History of the ICAO – ICAO and the World Health Organization’, available at www.icao.int/secretariat/PostalHistory/icao_and_the_world_health_organization.htm.

85 Pursuant to Art. 37 of the Chicago Convention, the ICAO may adopt these measures for dealing with a range of issues including safety, regularity, and efficiency. These are known as SARPS and are found in the Annexes to the Chicago Convention.

86 See, for example, Chicago Convention, Ann. 9 Facilitation, Ch. 2.

87 Chicago Convention, Ann. 6 Operation of Aircraft; Ann. 9 Facilitation; Ann. 11 Air Traffic Services; Ann. 14 Aerodromes; Ann. 18 The Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air.

88 Indeed, revisions to the General Declaration Form were forwarded by the ICAO to the WHO with the latter considering the, ‘document as part of its revision of the International Health Regulations’; see ICAO ‘Working Paper – Assembly – 36th Session Executive Committee – Agenda Item 18: Passenger and crew health and the prevention of spread of communicable disease – Passenger and Crew Health and the Prevention of the Spread of Communicable Disease’, 5 July 2007, A36-WP/22; EX/2, available at www.icao.int/Meetings/AMC/MA/Assembly%2036th%20Session/wp022_en.pdf, at para. 2.1.3.1.

89 For example, Art. 23 (4)(h) of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, 1760 UNTS 79, which charged the Convention of Parties with ‘contact[ing], through the Secretariat, the executive bodies of Conventions dealing with matters covered by this Convention with a view to establishing appropriate forms of cooperation with them’.

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96 IATA, ‘Suspected Communicable Disease – Guidelines for Cabin Crew’ (December 2017), available at www.iata.org/whatwedo/safety/health/Documents/health-guidelines-cabin-crew.pdf, at para. 14.

97 In this vein see Dunoff, supra note 16, at 138.

98 Chicago Convention, Ann. 9, Appendix 13; Amendment 20 to Ann. 9 – Facilitation; for background on its introduction see www.icao.int/Meetings/AMC/MA/Assembly%2036th%20Session/wp022_en.pdf.

99 Ibid., Ann. 6.

100 Ibid., Ann. 9 which states: ‘It is suggested that States make available adequate stocks of the Passenger Locator Form, for use at their international airports and for distribution to aircraft operators, for completion by passengers and crew.’

101 Available at www.icao.int/Meetings/FALP/Documents/Falp7-2012/IP10/IP10.EN.pdf.

102 Chicago Convention, Ann. 6, Ch. 6.2.2.

103 Ibid., Ann. 6, Ch. 6.2.2; Attachment B, 2.2.

104 Ibid., Ann. 9.

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107 E.g., ‘Store soiled items (used tissues, face masks, oxygen mask and tubing, linen, pillows, blankets, seat pocket items, etc.) in a biohazard bag.’

108 IHR (2005), Art. 28.6.

109 IATA, ‘Suspected Communicable Disease – Guidelines for Cabin Crew (December 2015), available at www.iata.org/whatwedo/safety/health/Documents/health-guidelines-cabin-crew.pdf.

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113 AIRSAN, ‘Contact Tracing – Collaboration between the Public Health and the Aviation Sector’ (May 2015), available at at www.airsan.eu/Portals/0/docs/AIRSAN_Guidance%20Document_Contact%20Tracing_May2015.pdf, at 11.

114 Riles, supra note 19, at 986.

115 See generally Stephenson, supra note 43, at 627–8.

116 Ibid., at 630.

117 See generally Valverde, supra note 20, at 141.

118 Of practical import is that, in July 2014, the ICAO questioned why the WHO had not declared a PHEIC; ‘Concern was expressed that WHO has not yet established an Ebola IHR Emergency Committee and that it has not been designated a Public Health Emergency of International Concern ...’; CAPSCA, ‘Report on the Fifth Regional Meeting of the Collaborative Arrangement for the Prevention of Public Health Events in Civil Aviation (CAPSCA - Africa)’ (2014), para. 4.

119 Indeed, ‘Contracting States shall comply with the pertinent provisions of the current edition of the International Health Regulations of the World Health Organization’; Chicago Convention, Ann. 9, Provision 8.12.

120 Jordaan, supra, note 94.

121 B. Latour, Pandora’s Hope (1999), 193.

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125 WHO, ‘Statement of the 4th Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on the 2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa’, 21 January 2015, available at www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2015/ebola-4th-ihr-meeting/en/.

126 WHO, ‘Statement of the 3rd Meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee’, supra note 122.

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129 M. Leftly, ‘We owe it to Sierra Leone, and ourselves, to re-establish links’, Independent, 25 February 2015, available at www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/mark-leftly-we-owe-it-to-sierra-leone-and-ourselves-to-re-establish-links-10068356.html.

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131 H. Martin, ‘Emirates Airlines suspends flights to Guinea after Ebola outbreak’, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 2014, available at www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-emirates-flights-ebola-20140804-story.html.

132 Association of Flight Attendants, ‘Flight Attendant Union Issues Ebola Protection and Response Checklist’, available at www.afacwa.org/flight_attendant_union_issues_ebola_protection_and_response_checklist.

133 See generally Amankwah-Amoah, supra note 123.

134 EU/WHO, ‘Mission to Review the Exit Screening Measures at International Airports in Conakry, Freetown and Monrovia Summary Technical Report’, available at hygimia69.blogspot.com/2014/12/eu-who-mission-to-review-exit-screening.html.

135 B. Kennedy, ‘British Airways Suspends some flights due to Ebola Concerns’, CBC News, 5 August 2014, available at www.cbsnews.com/news/british-airways-suspends-some-flights-due-to-ebola-concerns/.

136 ICAO/WHO, ‘Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak – Aviation Action Plan’, October 2014, available at www.capsca.org/Documentation/Ebola/WHO-ICAOActionPlanEN.pdf.

137 ICAO, ‘ICAO and World Health Organization Collaboration on Ebola’, 30 July 2014, available at www.icao.int/Newsroom/Pages/ICAO-and-World-Health-Organization-collaboration-on-Ebola-outbreak.aspx.

138 WHO, supra note 5.

139 WHO, ‘WHO Interim Guidance for Ebola Event Management at Points of Entry’, September 2014, available at www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/268792/WHO-Interim-Guidance-for-Ebola-Event-Management-at-Points-of-Entry-Eng.pdf, at 7.

140 CAPSCA, ‘List of Conclusions of the 5th CAPSCA Global Coordination Meeting (Cairo, Egypt, 17 - 20 November 2014)’ (2014), available at www.icao.int/MID/Documents/2014/CAPSCA%20MID4/CAPSCAconclusionsRev5AE.pdf, at 2.

141 ‘Traveller Public Health Declaration’, available at www.capsca.org/Documentation/Ebola/TravelerHealthDeclarationForm21Oct2014.pdf.

142 Indeed, in the context of the 2014 EVD outbreak, it was noted by the WHO that the General Declaration of aircraft health form could be requested of all arriving aircraft ‘arriving from EVD-affected areas and for aircraft carrying ill travellers suspected of having EVD’ meaning the pilot would have to notify Air Traffic Control about any suspected cases of communicable disease on-board before arrival; see WHO, ‘Technical note for Ebola virus disease preparedness planning for entry screening at airports, ports and land crossings’ (December 2014), available at apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/144819/1/WHO_EVD_Guidance_PoE_14.3_eng.pdf, para 3.1.

143 IATA, ‘Suspected Communicable Disease – Script to be Read by Cabin Crew to Passengers Prior to Arrival’ (October 2014), available at www.iata.org/whatwedo/safety/health/Documents/health-guidelines-cabin-annoucement-scripts.pdf; and CAPSCA, supra note 140.

144 European Commission, Commission Staff Working Document {COM(2017) 29 final} (19.1. 2017) SWD(2017) 14 final, at 26.

145 See M. Holehouse, ‘David Cameron says Europe’s block on sharing passenger data is “frankly ridiculous”’, Telegraph, 18 December 2014, available at www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11302567/David-Cameron-says-Europes-block-on-sharing-passenger-data-is-frankly-ridiculous.html.

146 ICAO, ‘Guidelines on Passenger Name Record (PNR) Data’, Document 9944 (2010), available at www.iata.org/iata/passenger-data-toolkit/assets/doc_library/04-pnr/New%20Doc%209944%201st%20Edition%20PNR.pdf.

147 IATA, supra note 112, at 2.

148 See ibid.

149 Ibid., at 3.

150 Ibid. See also European Commission, supra note 144, at 25–6.

151 In this sense, the form is concerned with the ‘sins of the flesh’, in contrast to thermoscanning which desires to know the ‘sins by the flesh’; see discussion in Opitz, supra note 44, at 12.

152 See ICAO, ‘Guidelines on Passenger Name Record (PNR) Data, supra note 146.

153 Dunoff, supra note 16, at 138.

154 WHO, ‘Interim Guidance: Travel and Transport Risk Assessment’ (September 2014), available at apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/132168/1/WHO_EVD_Guidance_TravelTransportRisk_14.1_eng.pdf, at 6.

155 Valverde, supra note 20.

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158 See generally Riles, supra note 19, at 973.

159 Valverde, supra note 20, at 139.

160 Cloatre, supra note 21, at 97.

161 Barker, supra note 40, at 358.

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163 In this vein see Riles, supra note 16, at 986.

164 In this vein see Burchardt, supra note 65 and Dunoff, supra note 16.