Qatar has ratified the following major air law treaties:

• The Chicago Convention of 1944 on International Civil Aviation - on 5 September 1971, which came into effect on 5 October 1971;

• the 1948 Geneva Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft - on 20 April 2007, which came into effect on 19 July 2007; and

• the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air - on 15 November 2004, which came into effect on 14 January 2005.

Qatar has not ratified the 1933 Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to the Precautionary Arrest of Aircraft (the Rome Convention) or the 2001 Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the associated Protocol on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment (the Cape Town Convention).