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OIL POLLUTION, BRAZIL
Despite of high media and public interest in this subject, to unveil the real polluter of heavy oil washed up at the northeast coastlines in Brazil, resulting in a most unprecedented incident and worst damages to the marine environment.
The International Tankers Owners pollution Federation -ITOPF is advisoring the Brazilian institutions, such IBAMA and Navy to handle this case. Bearing in mind of some tankers ships has been appointed as liable for the disaster, the international legal frameworks, comprise of several rules of civil liabailities.
Among these entangled regulations, we may highlight two main conventions to be applied at this case: International Convention on Civil Libilities for Oil Pollution Damage (1969 CLC) and International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation of oil pollution damages ( 1971 fund convention).
We are convinced that whereby detected liability of the owner of the polluting vessel, shall be charged and supplemented by additional compensation available from a fund, to the Brazilian government. Read more at....
http://www.itopf.org/news-events/news/article/240/
