Egypt is a party to several major aviation treaties, including:

• the Rome Convention on Damage Caused by Foreign Aircraft to Third Parties on the Surface (1933, as amended in 1952);

• the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation (1944);

• the Geneva Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft (1948); and

• the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment (the Cape Town Convention) and its Protocol on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (the Aircraft Protocol) (2001).

Other key conventions also include:

• the Warsaw Convention on the Unification of Certain Rules relating to International Carriage by Air (1929), and the Hague Protocol (1955) amending the same and the supplementary Guadalajara Convention (1961);

• the Montreal Additional Protocols Nos. 1 , 2 and 4 (1975); and