Legal matters

The International Conference on Salvage, 1989, was convened for the purpose of establishing uniform international rules regarding salvage operations and resulted in the adoption of the International Convention on Salvage, 1989. Included in this publication are:

• Final Act of the Conference
• International Convention on Salvage, (Salvage) 1989
• Resolution requesting the amendment of the York-Antwerp Rules, 1974
• Resolution on international co-operation for the implementation of the International Convention on Salvage, 1989

تتناول اتفاقية التدخل مسألة ضرورة حماية الدول الساحلية التي تتعرض لضرر أو تهديد مباشر من جراء حادث نقل بحري من شأنه أن يؤدي إلى تلوث البحر أو السواحل بالزيت. وتتضمن هذه الطبعة، فضلاً عن الاتفاقية، بروتوكول عام 1973 المتعلق بالتدخل في أعالي البحار في حالات التلوث بمواد غير الزيت. 

The purpose of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil pollution Damage, 1969 (CLC) is to provide uniform international rules and procedures for determining questions of liability and to ensure that adequate compensation is available to victims of Oil pollution by placing the liability for compensation upon the owner of the ship. The 1976 Protocol to Revise the Unit of Account Provisions of CLC is also included in this edition.

The purpose of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969 (CLC) is to provide uniform international rules and procedures for determining questions of liability and to ensure that adequate compensation is available to victims of Oil pollution by placing the liability for compensation upon the owner of the ship. The 1976 Protocol to Revise the Unit of Account Provisions of CLC is also included in this edition.

L'objet de la Convention internationale sur la responsabilité civile pour les dommages dus à la pollution par les hydrocarbures, 1969 est de fournir des règles et des procédures internationales uniformes pour déterminer les questions de responsabilité et de garantir une indemnisation adéquate aux victimes de la pollution par les hydrocarbures en mettant la responsabilité de l'indemnisation à la charge du propriétaire du navire. Le Protocole de 1976 visant à réviser les dispositions relatives à l'unité de compte de la Convention de Bruxelles est également inclus dans cette édition.

The Intervention Convention deals with the need to protect the interests of coastal States directly affected or threatened by the consequences of a maritime casualty which might result in pollution of the sea or coastlines by oil. This edition contains, in addition to the Convention, the Protocol relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances other than Oil, 1973.

This publication contains:

• Final Act of the Conference
• International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil pollution
• Damage (Fund), 1971
• Resolutions adopted by the Conference;
• Supplement containing the 1976 Protocol to Revise the Unit of Account Provisions of the 1971 Fund

Convention

This publication contains:

• −  Final Act of the Conference
• −  International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil pollution

Damage (Fund), 1971

• −  Resolutions adopted by the Conference;
• −  Supplement containing the 1976 Protocol to Revise the Unit of Account Provisions of the 1971 Fund

Convention