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The Montreal Convention, formally the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, is a treaty adopted by a Diplomatic meeting of ICAO member states in 1999.

It amended important provisions of the Warsaw Convention's regime concerning compensation for the victims of air disasters.

The Convention re-establishes urgently needed uniformity and predictability of rules relating to the international carriage of passengers, baggage and cargo.

Whilst maintaining the core provisions which have successfully served the international air transport community for several decades ( i. e. the Warsaw regime ), the new convention achieves the required modernisation in a number of key areas.

It protects passengers by introducing a two-tier liability system and by facilitating the swift recovery of proven damages without the need for lengthy litigation.