What is Warsaw Convention?
''distinguish the [[Warsaw Pact]], which was a defence treaty between Eastern European nations'' The '''Warsaw Convention''' is an international convention which regulates {{broken wikt link|liability|liability}} for international carriage of persons, [[luggage]] or goods performed by [[aircraft]] for reward. It was signed in [[1929]] in [[Warsaw]], it was amended in [[1955]] at [[The Hague]] and in [[1975]] in [[Montreal, Quebec|Montreal]].<ref>[[United States]] courts have said that, at least for some purposes, the Warsaw Convention is a different instrument from the Warsaw Convention as Amended by the Hague Protocol.</ref> In particular, the Warsaw Convention has the following rules: *carriers issue passenger tickets; *carriers issue baggage checks for checked luggage; *there is a limitation period of 2 years within which a [[:wikt:claim|claim]] must be brought (Article 29); and *a carrier's liability is at least: ** 250,000 Francs or 16,600 [[Special Drawing Rights]] (SDR) for personal injury; ** 17 SDR per [[kilogram]] for checked luggage and cargo, ** 5,000 Francs or 332 SDR for the hand luggage of a traveller.<ref>The sums limiting liability were originally given in Francs (defined in terms of a particular quantity of gold by article 22 paragraph 5 of the convention). These sums were amended by the Montreal Additional Protocol No. 2 to substitute an expression given in terms of SDR's. These sums are valid in the absence of a differing agreement (on a higher sum) with the carrier. Agreements on ''lower'' sums are null and void.</ref> On [[April 1]], [[2007]], the exchange rate was 1.00 SDR = 1.135 [[Euro|EUR]] or 1.00 SDR = 1.51 [[United States dollar|USD]]. The [[Montreal Convention]], signed in [[1999]], will replace the Warsaw Convention system, once Montreal has been ratified by all states. ==Footnotes== <references/> == Other websites == *{{PDFlink|[http://dgca.nic.in/int_conv/Chap_VI.pdf Text of the Warsaw Convention]|92.9&nbsp;[[Kibibyte|KiB]]<!-- application/pdf, 95200 bytes -->}} . *[http: