DECREE NO. 5,519, OF August 23, 2005.

Promuling the Protocol of Amendment to article 56 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, October 6, 1989.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignment that gives it the art. 84, inciso VIII, of the Constitution, and

Considering that the National Congress has approved the text of the Amendment Protocol to Article 56 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, by means of the Legislative Decree no 21, of May 8, 1992;

Considering that the Brazilian Government ratified the cited Protocol on July 22, 1992;

Considering that the Protocol entered into international force on April 18, 2005;

DECRETA:

Art. 1st The Amendment Protocol to Article 56 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, of October 6, 1989, aped by copy to the present Decree, will executed and fulfilled as entirely as it contains.

Art. 2nd subject to the approval of the National Congress any acts that may result in revision of the said Protocol or that carries charges or commitments engraved to the national heritage, pursuant to art. 49, inciso I, of the Constitution.

Art. 3rd This Decree comes into force on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, 23 from August 2005; 184th of the Independence and 117th of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim

This text does not replace the published in the DOU of 8/24/2005

PROTOCOL ON AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 56 OF THE CONVENTION

ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION

THE ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION

HAVING-SE REUNITED in its twenty-seventh session period, in Montreal, in six October 1989.

HAVING TAKEN NOTE of the general desire of the contracting States to increase the number of members of the Air Navigation Commission,

HAVING considered it convenient to elevate from fifteen to nineteen the number of members of that organ, and

HAVING Considered necessary to amend, to that end, the Convention on International Civil Aviation, made in Chicago, to seven from December 1944,

1. APPROVED, in accordance with the provisions of Article 94, (a) of the said Convention, the following proposal of Amendment to the Convention:

"In Article 56 of the Convention, replace the expression "fifteen members" by the expression "nineteen limbs".

2. FIXOU, in accordance with the provisions of Article 94, (a) of the mentioned Convention, in one hundred and eight the number of the Contracting States whose ratification is necessary for the entry into force of the proposed Amendment of Amendment, and

3. DECIDED, that the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization will redeem a Protocol in the Spanish, French, English and Russian languages, each of the four equally authentic, which will contain the proposed Amendment mentioned above, thus as the provisions set out below:

a) This Protocol shall be signed by the President of the Assembly and its Secretary-General.

b) The Protocol will be open to the ratification by any State which has ratified the Convention on International Civil Aviation, or acceded to it.

c) The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Aviation Organization International Civil.

d) This Protocol shall enter into force, with respect to the State which ratifying, on the date on which the hundredth eighteenth instrument of ratification is deposited.

e) The Secretary-General shall immediately communicate to all the contracting States to date of deposit of each of the instruments of ratification of this Protocol.

f) The Secretary-General shall immediately notify all States Parties to the mentioned Convention the date of entry into force of this Protocol.

g) This Protocol shall enter into force, with respect to each Contracting State that ratifies it after the date mentioned, from the moment it deposits its instrument of ratification to the International Civil Aviation Organization.

IN CONSEQUENCE, in accordance with the aforementioned decision of the Assembly, the present Protocol was drafted by the Secretary-General of the Organization.

IN TESTIMONY TO WHAT, the President and the Secretary-General of the mentioned twentieth seventh period of sessions of the International Civil Aviation Organization Assembly, duly authorized by the Assembly, sign the present Protocol.

FEITO in Montreal, on day six of October one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine, in a single copy drawn up in the Spanish, French, English and Russian languages, each being of the equally authentic texts. This Protocol shall be deposited in the archives of the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Secretary-General of the Organization shall transmit certified copies of the same to all States Parties to the International Civil Aviation Convention, made in Chicago on day seven of September 1944.

A. Joy

President of the 27º period of

Assemblée sessions

S.S. Sidhu

Secretary-General