(1) Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft (1963) |
The Aircraft Convention authorizes the commander of an aircraft to impose reasonable measures on any person affecting in-flight safety: PDF |
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(2) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft (1970) |
The Unlawful Seizure Convention makes it an offence for any person onboard an aircraft to seize or exercise control of the aircraft, or to attempt to do so by force: PDF |
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2010 Protocol Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft |
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The Beijing Protocol 2010 expands the scope of the Unlawful Seizure Convention to cover different forms of aircraft hijackings, including through modern technological means: PDF |
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(3) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (1971) |
The Civil Aviation Convention makes it an offence for any person to place an explosive device on an aircraft, or to attempt such acts: PDF |
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(7) Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, Supplementary to the 1971 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (1988) |
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The Airport Protocol extends the provisions set forth in the Civil Aviation Convention to cover airports: PDF |
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(4) Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (1973) |
The Diplomatic Agents Convention requires states to make it punishable by appropriate penalties the murder, kidnapping, other attack on internationally protected persons (e.g. heads of state or government representatives): PDF |
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(5) International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages (1979) |
The Hostage Taking Convention makes it an offense for any person to commit or attempt to commit an act of “hostage-taking” in order to compel a third party to do or abstain from doing any act as a condition for the release of the hostage: PDF |
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(6) Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (1979) |
The Nuclear Materials Convention requires states to make it punishable by appropriate penalties the unlawful receipt, possession, use, transfer, alternation, disposal, or dispersal of nuclear materials: PDF |
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Amendments to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (2005) |
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The Amendments to the Nuclear Materials Convention strengthens the legal regime by making it binding for states to protect national nuclear facilities and nuclear material in peaceful domestic use: PDF |
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(8) Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (1988) |
The Maritime Convention (SUA 1988) makes it an offence for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship (any type of vessel not permanently attached to the sea-bed) by force or threat to use force: PDF |
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(9) Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (1988) |
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The Fixed Platform Protocol (SUA PROT 1988) extends the legal regime of the Maritime Convention to cover also fixed platforms: PDF |
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Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (2005) |
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This Protocol (SUA PROT 2005) criminalizes the use of a ship as a device to conduct an act of terrorism: PDF |
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Protocol to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf (2005) |
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This Protocol Adapts the changes introduced SUA PROT 2005 to cover also fixed platforms: PDF |
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(10) Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection (1991) |
The Plastic Explosives Convention controls and limits the use of plastic explosives: PDF |
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(11) International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (1997) |
The Terrorist Bombing Convention makes it an offence for any person to deliver, place, discharge, or detonate explosives into or against a place of public use: PDF |
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(12) International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (1999) |
The Terrorist Financing Convention makes it an offence for any person to provide or collect funds to be used in full or in part to carry out acts of terrorism: PDF |
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(13) International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (2005) |
The Nuclear Terrorism Convention makes it an offence for any person to unlawfully and intentionally possess radioactive materials: PDF |
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(14) Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation (2010) |
| The New Civil Aviation Convention criminalizes the act of using civil aircraft as a weapon to cause death, injury or damage: PDF |
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