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Protocol to Amend the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage of 1971

Date:1992
Description:The Protocol amends the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage of 1971 by providing for improved scope and enhance compensation; to arrange for the amended Convention to coexist with and be supplementary to the original Convention for a transitory period; and to continue for the economic consequences of pollution damage to be shared by the shipping industry and by the oil cargo interests.
Type:Conventions and treaties
URL:http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/imo.fund.compensation.oil.pollution.damage.protocol.1992/toc.html
Date entered:2002-02-17

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