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5 DE SETEMBRO DE 1997

1398-(3)

PROPOSTA DE RESOLUÇÃO N.° 66/VII

APROVA, PARA RATIFICAÇÃO, 0 PROTOCOLO PARA A REPRESSÃO DE ACTOS ILÍCITOS DE VIOLÊNCIA NOS AEROPORTOS AO SERVIÇO DA AVIAÇÃO CIVIL INTERNACIONAL, COMPLEMENTAR À CONVENÇÃO PARA A REPRESSÃO DE ACTOS ILÍCITOS CONTRA A SEGURANÇA DA AVIAÇÃO CIVIL, ADOPTADO EM MONTREAL EM 24 DE FEVEREIRO DE 1988.

Nos termos da alínea d) do n.° 1 do artigo 200.° da Constituição da República Portuguesa, o Governo apresenta à Assembleia da República a seguinte proposta de resolução:

Artigo único

É aprovado, para ratificação, o Protocolo para a Repressão de Actos Ilícitos de Violência nos Aeroportos ao Serviço da Aviação Civil Internacional, complementar à Convenção para a Repressão de Actos Ilícitos contra a Segurança da Aviação Civil, adoptado em 24 de Fevereiro de 1988, em Montreal, cujo texto original em inglês e francês e respectiva tradução em português segue em anexo ao presente diploma.

Visto e aprovado em Conselho de Ministros de 14 de Agosto de 1997. — O Primeiro-Ministro, António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres. — O Ministro da Presidência, António Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino. — Pelo Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros, José Alberto Rebelo dos Reis Lamego, Secretário de Estado dos Negócios Estrangeiros e da Cooperação. — O Ministro do Equipamento, do Planeamento e da Administração do . Território, João Cardona Gomes Cravinho.

PROTOCOL FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF UNLAWFUL ACTS OF VIOLENCE AT AIRPORTS SERVING INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION, SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF UNLAWFUL ACTS AGAINST THE SAFETY OF CIVIL AVIATION, DONE AT MONTREAL ON 23 SEPTEMBER 1971.

The States Parties to this Protocol:

Considering that unlawful acts of violence which endanger or are likely to endanger the safety of persons at airports serving international civil aviation or which jeopardize the. safe operation of such airports undermine the confidence of the peoples of the world in safety at such airports and disturb the safe and orderly conduct of civil aviation for all States;

Considering that the occurrence of such acts is a matter of grave concern to the international community and that, for the purpose of deterring such acts, there is an urgent need to provide appropriate measures for punishment of offenders;

Considering that it is necessary to adopt provisions supplementary to those of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, done at Montreal on 23 September 1971, to deal with such unlawful acts of violence at airports serving international civil aviation;

have agreed as follows:

Article I

This Protocol supplements the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil

Aviation, done at Montreal on 23 September 1971 (hereinafter referred to as «the Convention»), and, as between the Parties to this Protocol, the Convention and the Protocol shall be read and interpreted together as one single instrument.

Article II

1 — In article 1 of the Convention, the following shall be added as new paragraph 1-bis:

«l-bis. Any person commits an offence if he unlawfully and intentionally, using any device, substance or weapon:

a) Performs an act of violence against a person at an airport serving international civil aviation which causes or is likely to cause serious injury or death; or

b) Destroys or seriously damages the facilities of an airport serving international civil aviation or aircraft not in service located thereon or disrupts the services of the airport;

if such an act endangers or is likely to endanger safety at that airport.»

2 — In paragraph 2, a), of article 1 of the Convention, the following words shall be inserted after the words «paragraph 1»: «or paragraph l-bis.»

Article III

In article 5 of the Convention, the following shall be added as paragraph 2-bis:

«2-bis. Each Contracting State shall likewise take such measures as may be necessary to establish its jurisdiction over the offences mentioned in article 1, paragraph 1-bis, and in article 1, paragraph 2, in so far as that paragraph relates to those offences, in the case where the alleged offender is present in its territory and it does not extradite him pursuant to article 8 to the State mentioned in paragraph 1, a), of this article.»

Article IV

This Protocol shall be open for signature at Montreal on 24 February 1988 by States participating in the International Conference on Air Law held at Montreal from 9 to 24 February 1988. After 1 March 1988, the Protocol shall be open for signature to all States in London, Moscow, Washington and Montreal, until it enters into force in accordance with article vi.

Article V

1—This Protocol shall be subject to ratification by the signatory States.

2 — Any State which is not a Contracting State to the Convention may ratify this Protocol if at the same time it ratifies or accedes to the Convention in accordance with article 15 thereof.

3 — Instruments of ratification shall be deposites with the Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of-America or with the International Civil Aviation Organization, which are hereby designated the Depositaries.

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