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International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution 1969

Where there is no actual fault or privity of the owner in respect of the pollution or its cause, then he may limit his losses to the amounts set out below.

2,000 gold francs per limitation ton (Limitation tonnage in this case is the net tonnage plus the engine room space).

Maximum Liability of the Owner 210,000,000 gold francs.

Signatories

1992 Protocol (London) to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage

Limitation is not available where the damage resulted from the owner's personal act or omission, committed with intent to cause such damage, or recklessly and with knowledge that such damage would probably result.

The limits are 3,000,000 SDR for a ship not exceeding 5,000 units of tonnage, and for ships in excess thereof, an additional 420 SDR for each unit of tonnage in excess, up to an aggregate of 59,700,000 SDR. The ship's tonnage, for limitation purposes, is the gross tonnage (in accordance with the 1969 Convention on Tonnage Measurement).

Signatories

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