Traduction de «Assurance-responsabilité du transporteur » (Français → Anglais) :

In the absence of any such applicable national legislation, the liability of the carrier or performing carrier shall be governed only by Article 3 of this Regulation.

The Regulation aims at introducing minimum insurance requirements for air carriers and aircraft operators flying within, into, out of, or over the territory of a Member State in respect of their liability for passengers, baggage, cargo and third parties.

The Commission outlined substantive issues, including the nature and extent of the carrier's liability and minimum requirements on insurance, which were insufficiently regulated in the previous version of the Athens Convention.

- the applicable limit for that flight on the carrier's liability in respect of destruction, loss of or damage to baggage and a warning that baggage greater in value than this figure should be brought to the airline's attention at check-in or fully insured by the passenger prior to travel.

He proposed that the Court reply as follows: 1. An action by which the consignee of goods found to be damaged on completion of a transport operation by sea and then by land, or by which his insurer who has been subrogated to his rights after compensating him, seeks redress for the damage suffered, relying on the bill of lading covering the maritime transport, not against the person who issued that document on his headed paper but against the person whom the plaintiff considered to be the actual maritime carrier, falls within the scope not of matters relating to a contract within the meaning of Article 5(1) of the Convention of 27 Septem ...[+++]ber 1968 on jurisdiction and the enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters, as amended by the Convention of 9 October 1978 on the Accession of the Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by the Convention of 25 October 1982 on the Accession of the Hellenic Republic and by the Convention of 26 May 1989 on the Accession of the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic, but of matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict within the meaning of Article 5(3) of that Convention.

After the attacks on the United States on 11 September 2001, insurance companies stopped offering air carriers liability insurance coverage for what are commonly called “war risks” in the insurance industry.2 These risks generally include war, hijacking and all related perils, including acts of terrorism.