The Montreal Convention 1999 ("MC99") will come into force on 4 November 2003. Thereafter it will apply to all carriage between States Parties and round trip carriage starting and finishing in a State Party. The existing Warsaw Convention will continue to apply, as amended where appropriate by the Hague Protocol and the Montreal Additional Protocols, save as between states which have ratified MC99 where the new Convention will prevail.
Below we set out the main liability provisions in tabular form and the initial thirty one States Parties. Much of the structure is familiar, being based largely on Warsaw/Hague/MAP4 and Guadalajara. We also set out the main changes to the existing liability regime.
