CROATIA, GERMANY INITIAL AGREEMENT ON AIR TRAFFIC

BONN, July 24 (Hina) - An agreement on air traffic between Germany and Croatia, regulating the rights and obligations of the two countries in planning, conducting, and providing safety in air traffic, was initialled in Bonn on Wednesday. On the basis of the new agreement, a previous agreement on air traffic, signed between Yugoslavia and Germany in 1957, becomes officially invalid. With the new agreement, Germany has for the first time signed with another country an article concerning safety in air traffic, in line with regulations of the European Organization for Air Transport (Croatia and Germany are both members), which call for the highest safety possible in air traffic. With their initials, the heads of the two delegations, Croatian Assistant Transport Minister Zvonimir Vedric, and the head of the German Department for Law in Air Transport, Horts Graumann, proved that a European Union member-country, Germany, and Croatia, a non-member country, can be a step ahead of the others. The Croatian delegation returned to Croatia on Thursday. (hina) ha 241254 MET jul 97