The International Law of Satellite-Based Navigation Aids

Michael B. Jennison

Abstract:	From a legal standpoint, the implementation of CNS/ATM is going well indeed. ICAO's Air Navigation Bureau and expert panels are busily formulating the Standards and Recommended Practices for system performance that will be binding on member States as they are promulgated. The Council and several Assemblies have issued nonbinding policy pronouncements on the general terms under which implementation should proceed. Most important, CNS/ATM, like every previous technical development in world civil aviation, is well within the capacity of the current, very flexible legal framework governing air navigation—the Convention on International Civil Aviation (the Chicago Convention) and its Annexes—to make rules, monitor their implementation, and resolve disputes. Moreover, the ICAO Legal Committee, an expert panel of legal and technical experts, and—most recently—a legal issues study group convened by the ICAO Secretariat, are busily exploring whether there might be a deed for long-term legal changes to handle the long-term CNS/ATM. Most important, all of ICAO's efforts in the legal field are conditioned on the proviso that they will not be permitted to delay the actual technical implementation of the navigation regime of the 21st century.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 12th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1999) September 14 - 17, 1999 Nashville, TN
Pages:	989 - 1022
Cite this article:	Jennison, Michael B., "The International Law of Satellite-Based Navigation Aids," Proceedings of the 12th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1999), Nashville, TN, September 1999, pp. 989-1022.
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