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Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air Montreal, 28 May 1999 Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (Montreal, 28 May 1999) Chapter 1 - General Provisions Article 1 - Scope of application 10 1. This Convention applies to all international carriage of persons, baggage or cargo performed by aircraft for reward. It applies equally to gratuitous carriage by aircraft performed by an air transport undertaking. 11 2. For the purposes of this Convention, the expression international carriage means any carriage in which, according to the agreement between the parties, the place of departure and the place of destination, whether or not there be a break in the carriage or a transhipment, are situated either within the territories of two States Parties, or within the territory of a single State Party if there is an agreed stopping place within the territory of another State, even if that State is not a State Party. Carriage between two points within the territory of a single State Party without an agreed stopping place within the territory of another State is not international carriage for the purposes of this Convention. 12 3. Carriage to be performed by several successive carriers is deemed, for the purposes of this Convention, to be one undivided carriage if it has been regarded by the parties as a single operation, whether it had been agreed upon under the form of a single contract or of a series of contracts, and it does not lose its international character merely because one contract or a series of contracts is to be performed entirely within the territory of the same State. 13 4. This Convention applies also to carriage as set out in Chapter V, subject to the terms contained therein. Article 2 - Carriage performed by State and carriage of postal items 15 1. This Convention applies to carriage performed by the State or by legally constituted public bodies p