International Convention relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969 and Protocol relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances other than Oil, 1973

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.