(b)
Encourage the arts of aircraft design and operation for peaceful purposes
(c)
Encourage the developments of airways, airports, and air navigation facilities for international civil aviation
(d)
Meet the needs of the peoples of the world for safe, regular, ef.cient and economical air transport
(e)
Prevent economic waste caused by unreasonable competition
(f)
Insure that the rights of contracting States are fully respected and that every contracting State has a fair opportunity to operate international airlines
(g)
Avoid discrimination between contracting States
(h)
Promote safety of .ight in international air navigation
(i)
Promote generallythe development of all aspects of international aeronautics332
In addition to ICAO’s objectives, the modern traveler requires rapid processing through the different stages of air transport, whether it implicates the air carrier’s processes or those set forth by the border control agencies. In article 22, the Chicago Convention recognizes the importance of facilitating its formalities with respect to each passenger:
Each contracting State agrees to adopt all practicable measures, through the issuance of special regulations or otherwise, to facilitate and expedite navigation by aircraft between the territories of contracting States, and to prevent unnecessary delays to aircraft, crews, passengers and cargo, especially the administration of the laws relating to immigration, quarantine, customs and clearance.333
To achieve such conditions of travel, States have adopted ICAO’s recommenda-tions into nationallaws but have as well implemented some extraterritorial applica-tions to the existing legislations of legality. For example, the United States by
331Convention on international Civil Aviation,7December 1944, ICAO Doc. 7300/8 (entered into
force 4 April 1947) (hereinafter: Chicago Convention).
332Chicago Convention, Art. 44.
333Chicago Convention, Art. 22.
Enhanced Border Security and Visa Reform Act,334 which objectives are to reform the US Patriot Act335 by different new technologies of data capturing such as biometrics. In fact, the government acknowledges the need for expedited clearance of passengers at airports using machine readable travel documents (MRTDs) technology. This should be used in a secure environment in order to ensure that the proper border control authorities remain the only agency in possession of such data. Furthermore, these procedures have been standardized on a worldwide basis and are currently being developed with the initiative of ICAO and ISO with new biometric procedures:336 中国航空网 www.aero.cn 航空翻译 www.aviation.cn 本文链接地址:Aviation Security Law 航空安全法(100)