The First International Conference on Private Air Law held at Paris in 1925 adopted a resolution providing for the creation of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts, usually referred to as CITEJA. This committee of experts acted on their own responsibility and their respective governments were free to approve or reject their conclusions at international conferences. The committee was organized and held its first sessions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Paris in May, 1926, with twenty-eight countries participating. Its initial working schedule covered the establishment of a program dealing with subjects pertaining to private air law to be studied by commissions of experts, preparation of texts of international conventions on legal subjects for consideration at periodic international conferences, and maintenance of the principle of the progressive elaboration of a single international code of private air law.