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The
aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall have full liberty
of passage and landing over and in the territory and territorial
waters of Germany, and shall enjoy the same privileges as German
aircraft, particularly in case of distress by land or sea.
The
aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall, while in transit
to any foreign country whatever, enjoy the right of flying over the
territory and territorial waters of Germany without landing, subject
always to any regulations which may be made by Germany, and which
shall be applicable equally to the aircraft of Germany and to those
of the Allied and Associated countries.
All
aerodromes in Germany open to national public traffic shall be open
for the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers, and in any
such aerodrome such aircraft shall be treated on a footing of
equality with German aircraft as regards charges of every
description, including charges for landing and accommodation.
Subject
to the present provisions, the rights of passage, transit and
landing, provided for in Articles 313, 314 and 315, are subject to
the observance of such regulations as Germany may consider it
necessary to enact, but such regulations shall be applied without
distinction to German aircraft and to those of the Allied and
Associated countries.
Certificate
of nationality, airworthiness, or competency, and licences, issued
or recognised as valid by any of the Allied or Associated Powers,
shall be recognised in Germany as valid and as equivalent to the
certificates and licences issued by Germany.
As
regards internal commercial air traffic, the aircraft of the, Allied
and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Germany most favoured nation
treatment.
Germany
undertakes to enforce the necessary measures to ensure that all
German aircraft flying over her territory shall comply with the
Rules as to lights and signals, Rules of the Air and Rules for Air
Traffic on and in the neighbourhood of aerodromes, which have been
laid down in the Convention relative to Aerial Navigation concluded
between the Allied and Associated Powers.
The
obligations imposed by the preceding provisions shall remain in
force until January 1, 1923, unless before that date Germany shall
have been admitted into the League of Nations or shall have been
authorised, by consent of the Allied and Associated Powers, to
adhere to the Convention relative to Aerial Navigation concluded
between those Powers.
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