AIR TRANSPORT AGREEMENT  
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (hereinafter, ‘the United States’),  
of the first part;  
THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM,  
THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA,  
THE CZECH REPUBLIC,  
THE KINGDOM OF DENMARK,  
THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,  
THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA,  
IRELAND,  
THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC,  
THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN,  
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC,  
THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC,  
THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS,  
THE REPUBLIC OF LATVIA,  
THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA,  
THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG,  
THE REPUBLIC OF HUNGARY,  
MALTA,  
THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS,  
THE REPUBLIC OF AUSTRIA,  
THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND,  
THE PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC,  
ROMANIA,  
THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA,  
THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC,EN 29.10.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 283/3
THE REPUBLIC OF FINLAND,  
THE KINGDOM OF SWEDEN,  
THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,  
being parties to the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and being 
Member States of the European Union (hereinafter, ‘the Member States’),  
and 
THE EUROPEAN UNION,  
of the second part;  
ICELAND,  
of the third part; and  
THE KINGDOM OF NORWAY (hereinafter, ‘Norway’),  
of the fourth part;  
DESIRING to promote an international aviation system based on competition among airlines in the marketplace with 
minimum government interference and regulation;  
DESIRING to facilitate the expansion of international air transport opportunities, including through the development of 
air transportation networks to meet the needs of passengers and shippers for convenient air transportation services;  
DESIRING to make it possible for airlines to offer the travelling and shipping public competitive prices and services in 
open markets;  
DESIRING to have all sectors of the air transport industry, including airline workers, benefit in a liberalised agreement;  
DESIRING to ensure the highest degree of safety and security in international air transport and reaffirming their grave 
concern about acts or threats against the security of aircraft, which jeopardise the safety of persons or property, adversely 
affect the operation of air transportation, and undermine public confidence in the safety of civil aviation;  
NOTING the Convention on International Civil Aviation, opened for signature at Chicago on December 7, 1944;  
RECOGNISING that government subsidies may adversely affect airline competition and may jeopardise the basic 
objectives of this Agreement;  
AFFIRMING the importance of protecting the environment in developing and implementing international aviation policy;  
NOTING the importance of protecting consumers, including the protections afforded by the Convention for the Unifi ­
cation of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, done at Montreal May 28, 1999;  
INTENDING to build upon the framework of existing agreements with the goal of opening access to markets and 
maximising benefits for consumers, airlines, labour, and communities on both sides of the Atlantic;EN L 283/4 Official Journal of the European Union 29.10.2011
RECOGNISING the importance of enhancing the access of their airlines to global capital markets in order to strengthen 
competition and promote the objectives of this Agreement;  
INTENDING to establish a precedent of global significance to promote the benefits of liberalisation in this crucial 
economic sector;  
RECOGNISING that the European Union replaced and succeeded the European Community as a consequence of the entry 
into force on December 1, 2009 of the Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty 
establishing the European Community, and that as of that date, all the rights and obligations of, and all the references to 
the European Community in the Air Transport Agreement signed by the United States of America and the European 
Community and its Member States on April 25 and 30, 2007, apply to the European Union;  
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:  
Article 1  
Definition  
‘Party’ means the United States, the European Union and its 
Member States, Iceland, or Norway.  
Article 2  
Application of the Air Transport Agreement as amended 
by the Protocol and the Annex to this Agreement  
The provisions of the Air Transport Agreement signed by the 
United States of America and the European Community and its 
Member States on April 25 and 30, 2007 (hereinafter, ‘the Air 
Transport Agreement’), as amended by the Protocol to Amend 
the Air Transport Agreement signed by the United States of 
America and the European Union and its Member States on 
June 24, 2010 (hereinafter, ‘the Protocol’), which are hereby 
incorporated by reference, shall apply to all Parties to this 
Agreement, subject to the Annex to this Agreement. The 
provisions of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by 
the Protocol, shall apply to Iceland and Norway as though 
they were Member States of the European Union, so that 
Iceland and Norway shall have all of the rights and obligations 
of Member States under that agreement. The provisions of the 
Annex to this Agreement form an integral part of this 
Agreement.  
Article 3  
Termination or cessation of provisional application  
1. Either the United States or the European Union and its 
Member States may, at any time, give notice in writing through 
diplomatic channels to the other three Parties of its decision to 
terminate this Agreement or to end this Agreement’s provi ­
sional application under Article 5.  
A copy of the notice shall be sent simultaneously to the Inter ­
national Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). This Agreement 
shall terminate, or provisional application of this Agreement 
shall end, at midnight GMT at the end of the International 
Air Transport Association (IATA) traffic season in effect one 
year following the date of the written notification, unless the 
notice is withdrawn by agreement of all of the Parties before the 
end of this period.  2. Either Iceland or Norway may, at any time, give notice in 
writing through diplomatic channels to the other Parties of its 
decision to withdraw from this Agreement or to end its provi ­
sional application of this Agreement under Article 5. A copy of 
the notice shall be sent simultaneously to ICAO. Such with ­
drawal or cessation of provisional application shall be 
effective at midnight GMT at the end of the IATA traffic 
season in effect one year following the date of written notifi ­
cation, unless the notice is withdrawn by agreement of the Party 
giving written notice, the United States, and the European 
Union and its Member States before the end of this period.  
3. Either the United States or the European Union and its 
Member States may, at any time, give notice in writing through 
diplomatic channels to Iceland or Norway of its decision to 
terminate this Agreement or to end this Agreement’s provi ­
sional application, with respect to Iceland or Norway. Copies 
of the notice shall be sent simultaneously to the other two 
Parties to this Agreement and to ICAO. Termination or 
cessation of provisional application with respect to Iceland or 
Norway shall be effective at midnight GMT at the end of the 
IATA traffic season in effect one year following the date of 
written notification, unless the notice is withdrawn by 
agreement of the United States, the European Union and its 
Member States, and the Party receiving the notice, before the 
end of this period.  
4. For purposes of the diplomatic notes contemplated by this 
Article, diplomatic notes to or from the European Union and its 
Member States shall be delivered to or from, as the case may be, 
the European Union.  
5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, if the 
Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, is 
terminated, this Agreement shall terminate simultaneously.  
Article 4  
Registration with ICAO  
This Agreement and all amendments thereto shall be registered 
with ICAO by the General Secretariat of the Council of the 
European Union.EN 29.10.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 283/5
Article 5  
Provisional Application  
Pending its entry into force, the Parties agree to provisionally 
apply this Agreement, to the extent permitted under applicable 
domestic law, from the date of signature. If the Air Transport 
Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, is terminated in 
accordance with Article 23 thereof, or its provisional appli ­
cation ceases in accordance with Article 25 of that agreement, 
or provisional application of the Protocol ceases in accordance 
with Article 9 of the Protocol, provisional application of this 
Agreement shall cease simultaneously.  
Article 6  
Entry into force  
This Agreement shall enter into force on the later of:  
1. the date of entry into force of the Air Transport Agreement;  
2. the date of entry into force of the Protocol; and  3. one month after the date of the last note of the exchanges of 
diplomatic notes among the Parties confirming that all 
necessary procedures for entry into force of this 
Agreement have been completed.  
For the purposes of this exchange of diplomatic notes, 
diplomatic notes to or from the European Union and its 
Member States shall be delivered to or from, as the case may 
be, the European Union. The diplomatic note or notes from the 
European Union and its Member States shall contain communi ­
cations from each Member State confirming that its necessary 
procedures for entry into force of this Agreement have been 
completed.  
IN WITNESS WHEREOF  the undersigned, being duly authorised, 
have signed this Agreement.  
Done at Luxembourg and Oslo, in quadruplicate, on the 
sixteenth and twenty-first of June 2011 respectively.EN L 283/6 Official Journal of the European Union 29.10.2011
For the United States of America  
За Европейския  съюз  
Por la Unión Europea  
Za Evropskou unii  
For Den Europæiske Union  
Für die Europäische Union  
Euroopa Liidu nimel  
Για την Ευρωπαϊκή  Ένωση  
For the European Union  
Pour l’Union européenne  
Per l’Unione europea  
Eiropas Savien ības v ārd ā – 
Europos S ąjungos vardu  
Az Európai Unió részér ől 
Għall-Unjoni Ewropea  
Voor de Europese Unie  
W imieniu Unii Europejskiej  
Pela União Europeia  
Pentru Uniunea European ă 
Za Európsku úniu  
Za Evropsko unijo  
Euroopan unionin puolesta  
För Europeiska unionen
  
Fyrir Ísland
  
For Kongeriket Norge
  
Voor het Koninkrijk België  
Pour le Royaume de Belgique  
Für das Königreich Belgien
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Deze handtekening verbindt eveneens het Vlaamse Gewest, het Waalse Gewest en het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.  
Cette signature engage également la Région wallonne, la Région flamande et la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.  
Diese Unterschrift bindet zugleich die Wallonische Region, die Flämische Region und die Region Brüssel-Hauptstadt.  
За Репyблика  Бълг aрия
 
Za Českou republiku
  
For Kongeriget Danmark
  
Für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
  
Eesti Vabariigi nimel
  
Thar cheann Na hÉireann  
For Ireland
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Για την Ελληνική  Δημοκρατία
  
Por el Reino de España
  
Pour la République française
  
Per la Repubblica italiana
  
Για την Κυπριακή  Δημοκρατία
  
Latvijas Republikas v ārd ā –
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Lietuvos Respublikos vardu
  
Pour le Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
  
A Magyar Köztársaság részér ől
 
Għal Malta
  
Voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden
  
Für die Republik Österreich
  
W imieniu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
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Pela República Portuguesa
  
Pentru România
  
Za Republiko Slovenijo
  
Za Slovenskú republiku
  
Suomen tasavallan puolesta  
För Republiken Finland
  
För Konungariket Sverige
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For the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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JOINT DECLARATION  
Representatives of the United States of America, the European Union and its Member States, Iceland, and 
the Kingdom of Norway confirmed that the text of the Air Transport Agreement between the United States 
of America, of the first part, the European Union and its Member States, of the second part, Iceland, of the 
third part, and the Kingdom of Norway, of the fourth part ( "the Agreement  ″), is to be authenticated in other 
languages, as provided either, before signature of the Agreement, by Exchanges of Letters or, after signature 
of the Agreement, by decision of the Joint Committee.  
This Joint Declaration is an integral part of the Agreement. 
For the United States of America
  For the European Union 
and its Member States
  
For Iceland
  For the Kingdom of Norway
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ANNEX  
Specific provisions with respect to Iceland and Norway  
The provisions of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, modified as follows, shall apply to all Parties 
to this Agreement. The provisions of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, shall apply to Iceland 
and Norway as though they were Member States of the European Union, so that Iceland and Norway shall have all of the 
rights and obligations of Member States under that agreement, subject to the following:  
1. Paragraph 9 of Article 1 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, shall read as follows:  
‘ “Territory” means, for the United States, the land areas (mainland and islands), internal waters and territorial sea under 
its sovereignty or jurisdiction, and, for the European Union and its Member States, the land areas (mainland and 
islands), internal waters and territorial sea in which the Agreement on the European Economic Area is applied and 
under the conditions laid down in that agreement and any successor instrument, with the exception of the land areas 
and internal waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the Principality of Liechtenstein; application of this 
Agreement to Gibraltar airport is understood to be without prejudice to the respective legal positions of the 
Kingdom of Spain and the United Kingdom with regard to the dispute over sovereignty over the territory in 
which the airport is situated, and to the continuing suspension of Gibraltar Airport from European Union aviation 
measures existing as at 18 September 2006 as between Member States, in accordance with the Ministerial statement 
on Gibraltar Airport agreed in Córdoba on 18 September 2006; and’.  
2. Articles 23 to 26 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, shall not apply to Iceland and Norway.  
3. Articles 9 and 10 of the Protocol shall not apply to Iceland and Norway.  
4. The following shall be added to Section 1 of Annex 1 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol:  
‘w. Iceland: Air Transport Agreement, signed at Washington June 14, 1995; amended March 1, 2002 by exchange of 
notes; amended August 14, 2006 and March 9, 2007 by exchange of notes.  
x. The Kingdom of Norway: Agreement relating to Air Transport Services effected by exchange of notes at 
Washington, October 6, 1945; amended August 6, 1954 by exchange of notes; amended June 16, 1995 by 
exchange of notes.’.  
5. The text of Section 2 of Annex 1 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, shall read as follows:  
‘Notwithstanding Section 1 of this Annex, for areas that are not encompassed within the definition of ‘territory’ in 
Article 1 of this Agreement, the agreements in paragraphs (e) (Denmark-United States), (g) (France-United States), (v) 
(United Kingdom-United States), and (x) (Norway-United States) of that section shall continue to apply, according to 
their terms.’.  
6. The text of Section 3 of Annex 1 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, shall read as follows:  
‘Notwithstanding Article 3 of this Agreement, U.S. airlines shall not have the right to provide all-cargo services, that 
are not part of a service that serves the United States, to or from points in the Member States, except to or from 
points in the Czech Republic, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Grand Duchy of 
Luxembourg, Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Portuguese Republic, the Slovak Republic, Iceland, and the 
Kingdom of Norway.’.  
7. The following sentence shall be added at the end of Article 3 of Annex 2 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended 
by the Protocol:  
‘For Iceland and Norway, this includes, but is not limited to, Articles 53, 54, and 55 of the Agreement on the 
European Economic Area and the European Union Regulations implementing Articles 101, 102 and 105 of the Treaty 
on the Functioning of the European Union as incorporated into the Agreement on the European Economic Area, as 
well as any amendments thereto.’.EN L 283/14 Official Journal of the European Union 29.10.2011
8. Paragraph 4 of Article 21 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol, shall apply to Iceland and 
Norway to the extent that the relevant laws and regulations of the European Union are incorporated into the 
Agreement on the European Economic Area, in accordance with any adaptations thereby stipulated. The rights 
provided for in subparagraphs 4(a) and 4(b) of Article 21 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the 
Protocol, shall only be available to Iceland or Norway if, with respect to the imposition of noise-based operating 
restrictions, Iceland or Norway, respectively, is subject, under the relevant laws and regulations of the European Union 
as incorporated into the Agreement on the European Economic Area, to oversight that is comparable to that provided 
for in paragraph 4 of Article 21 of the Air Transport Agreement, as amended by the Protocol.EN 29.10.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 283/15