AIR TRANSPORT AGREEMENTS SIGNED BETWEEN CAMEROON AND PARTNER STATES
At the international level, each Contracting State of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) grants to other Contracting States, in respect of scheduled international air services, the following air freedoms;
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- The right to fly over its territory without landing, – 1st Freedom;
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- The right to land for non-commercial reasons (technical stops), – 2nd Freedom;
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- The right to carry passengers or cargo from one’s own country to another, – 3rd Freedom;
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- The right to carry passengers or cargo from another country to one’s territory 4th Freedom;
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- The right to carry passengers, mail, and cargo from one’s own country to a second Contracting country and from that country to any other contracting country (and so on), – 5th Freedoms.
Since its adhesion to the Convention on international Civil Aviation on the 15th of January 1960, and the ratification on the 30of th March 1960 of the agreement relative to the Transit of International Air Services, Cameroon has undertaken to complete its multifaceted cooperation through the conclusion of bilateral agreements with third countries. These bilateral treaties establish the modalities of regulating the activity of air transport and rule on the aerial relationships between pairs of states.
To date, the portfolio of aviation agreements negotiated by the government of Cameroon contains about sixty-two (62) instruments. The movement of people and goods by air between Cameroon and foreign countries is governed by these Bilateral Air Service Agreements (BASAs) which vary in their degree of restrictiveness and intensity. As the custodian of Cameroon’s portfolio of bilateral air services agreements, the CCAA, in the context of air transport liberalization and to conform to the new government policy of competition, engaged in a process of modernization and expansion of these BASAs with trading partner states to encourage the development of new markets, new services, and greater competition.
Cameroon has sixty-two (62) BASAs negotiated with third countries, classified as follows:
40 BASAs with African states
11 BASAs with European states
01 BASAs with a South American state (Brazil)
01 BASA with a North American state (USA)
04 BASAs with Middle East states
05 BASAs with Asian states
Article by CHUO ANGABUA JUNIOR
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