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Open Skies Treaty Texts

• OPEN SKIES: BASIC ELEMENTS Agreed by the North Atlantic Council Meeting in Ministerial Session at NATO Headquarters Brussels On 14th and 15th December 1989

  TREATY ON OPEN SKIES

  ARTICLES

  I. General Provisions
  II. Definitions
  III.Quotas
  IV. Sensors
  V. Aircraft Designation
  VI. Choice of Observation Aircraft, General Provisions for the Conduct of Observation Flights, and Requirements for Mission Planning
  VII. Transit Flights
  VIII. Prohibitions, Deviations from Flight Plans and Emergency Situations
  IX. Sensor Output from Observation Flights
  X. Open Skies Consultative Commission
  XI. Notifications and Reports
  XII. Liability
  XIII. Designation of Personnel and Privileges and Immunities
  XIV. Benelux
  XV. Duration and Withdrawal
  XVI. Amendments and Periodic Review
  XVII. Depositaries, Entry into Force and Accession
  XVIII. Provisional Application and Phasing of Implementation of the Treaty
  XIX. Authentic Texts
  

  ANNEXES

  ANNEX A -- Quotas and Maximum Flight Distances
  ANNEX B -- Information on Sensors
  APPENDIX 1 TO ANNEX B -- Annotation of Data Collected During and Observation Flight
  ANNEX C -- Information on Observation Aircraft
  ANNEX D -- Certification of Observation Aircraft Sensors
  APPENDIX 1 TO ANNEX D -- Methodologies for the Verification of the Performance of Sensors Installed on an Observation Aircraft
  ANNEX E -- Procedures for Arrivals and Departures
  ANNEX E APPENDIX 1 -- Designation of Sites
  ANNEX F -- Pre-Flight Inspections and Demonstration Flights
  ANNEX G -- Flight Monitors, Flight Representatives, and Representatives
  ANNEX H -- Co-ordination of Planned Observation Flights
  ANNEX I -- Information on Airspace and Flights in Hazardous Airspace
  ANNEX J -- Montreux Convention
  ANNEX K -- Information on Film Processors, Duplicators and Photographic Films, and Procedures for Monitoring the Processing of Photographic Film
  ANNEX L -- Open Skies Consultative Commission
  

• TREATY ARTICLE BY ARTICLE August 12,1992

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