If cargo is carried, a manifest and detailed declaration of the cargo — Page 32, Lesson 55

Let’s pick this up right where the cargo rules left off, because the next item is a specific restriction on what you may carry. Cargo restrictions. No munitions of war may be carried in or above the territory of a State without the permission of that State. So the moment you plan to carry weapons or ammunition over a foreign country, you need that country’s explicit permission first. There is no automatic right to carry them. Photographic apparatus. Each Contracting State may prohibit or regulate the use of photographic apparatus in an aircraft over its territory. So cameras and similar equipment can be banned or restricted by the State whose airspace you are overflying. You must respect those national rules. Now we move to the Duties of ICAO Member States, and this is a big one: Standards and Recommended Practices — SARPs. The stated aim of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, and subsequently the aims of ICAO, are to ensure safety, regularity and efficiency of international civil aviation operations. To achieve that, the Contracting States are required to comply with the SARPs. There are 18 annexes to the Convention. The SARPs are established after consultation with the Contracting States and interested international organizations, finalized by the ICAO Air Navigation Commission, and submitted to the Council, where a two-thirds majority is required for adoption. Now, the key point: the SARPs are considered binding on Contracting States. But if a State finds it impossible to implement them, it must inform ICAO under the terms of Article 38 of any differences that will exist on the applicability date of the amendment. Those differences are then detailed in the national aeronautical information publication — the AIP — and summarized in a supplement to each annex of the Chicago Convention. Then we have Customs Duty and Excise. ICAO has addressed taxation in the field of international aviation, and Member States are required to follow the resolutions and recommendations of the Council in this respect. States are asked to exempt fuel, lubricants, and other technical consumables taken on an aircraft in a State other than the State of… — and that sentence cuts off there in the source, so we stop at that point. Let me make sure you’ve got the essentials. Munitions of war need State permission. Photographic apparatus can be prohibited or regulated by the overflown State. SARPs are the binding standards and recommended practices, adopted by a two-thirds Council majority, with Article 38 requiring States to notify ICAO of any differences, which then go into the AIP and a supplement to the relevant annex. And on taxation, States are asked to exempt fuel, lubricants, and other technical consumables taken on board in a State other than the State of registration — that’s the principle we’re working toward. That’s the substance of this passage.