Subject: Purposes Of The Council

Governing Board Approval: June 11, 1993

The fundamental purposes of the International Business Aviation Council, Ltd. were set forth at the time of its incorporation in June 1981, and restated substantially in its By-Laws:

(a) To provide through the cooperation of the member organizations a pool of knowledge, experience and general information in all aspects of international business aircraft operations on which member organizations can draw for the benefit of their own members.

(b) To undertake all activities appropriate to ensure that the needs and interests of business aviation on an international scale are clearly presented to, and understood by, those national and international authorities and organizations whose responsibilities include any administration which may influence the safety, efficiency or economic use of business aircraft operating internationally.

(c) To attain through all appropriate means ever widening recognition of the fact that international operations conducted by business aircraft are of primary importance to the economy and well-being of the nations of the world.

(d) To bring operators of business aircraft into closer, mutually supportive personal and institutional relationships.

(e) To support the United Nations and its agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and to participate in the work of the latter.

(f) To defend the basic concepts set forth in the Preamble to the 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.

(g) To encourage the formation of independent national organizations where such do not exist for the purpose of representing the interests of companies owning or operating private category business aircraft.

(h) To receive and maintain a fund or funds of money or property, whether real or personal, and, subject to the restrictions and limitations stated below, to use and apply the whole or any part of such funds exclusively for the aforementioned purposes.

(i) To exercise all the powers conferred upon corporations organized under the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act in order to accomplish its purposes..."

Source of Policy: (1) Articles of Incorporation, Article Three, June 19, 1981

(2) By-Laws, Article II, Sections 1-5, September 14, 1981