Sentient Companions Classified As Baggage - How Iberia Turned Dogs into Luggage
Lercier, Marine
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2025-11-03
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In Iberia (C-218/24), the Court of Justice held on 16 October 2025 that a passenger’s companion animal lost during international air carriage falls within “baggage” under Article 17(2) of the 1999 Montreal Convention. Accordingly, the liability cap under Article 22(2) applies. The ruling sidesteps both the ordinary-meaning consequence that “baggage” denotes objects and the EU legal context recognising animals as sentient beings. Finally, turning dogs into luggage neglects the social reality where the loss of companion animals foreseeably causes moral harm to their human guardians.
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Lercier, Marine
1999 Montreal Convention
Article 13 TFEU
CJEU
EU
EU
Iberia (C-218/24)
Sentient Companions
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
animal rights
EU
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