it unanimously decides otherwise, shall conform with the provisions of Chapter III of The Hague Convention for the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes of 18 October 1907. 2. The parties shall be represented before the Conciliation Commission by agents whose duty shall be to act as intermediaries between the parties and the Commission. Each of the parties may seek also the assistance of advisers and experts nominated by it for this purpose and may request the hearing of all persons whose evidence the party considers useful. 3. The Commission shall have the right to request explanations from agents, advisers and experts of the parties as well as from any persons whom, with the consent of their governments, it may deem useful to call. ARTICLE 6 Provided the parties do not agree otherwise, decisions of the Conciliation Commission shall be taken by a majority vote and the Commission shall not pronounce on the substance of the controversy unless all its members are present. ARTICLE 7 The parties shall facilitate the work of the Conciliation Commission and in particular, in accordance with their legislation, and using all means at their disposal: (a) provide the Commission with the necessary documents and information; (b) enable the Commission to enter their territory, to hear witnesses or experts, and to visit the scene. ARTICLE 8 The task of the Conciliation Commission will be to clarify the matters under dispute, to assemble for this purpose all relevant information by means of examination or other means, and to endeavour to reconcile the parties. After examining the case, the Commission shall communicate to the parties a recommendation which appears to the Commission to be appropriate to the matter and shall fix a period of not more than 90 days within which the parties are called upon to state whether or not they accept the recommendation. ARTICLE 9 The recommendation shall be accompanied by a statement of reasons. If the recommendation does not represent in whole or in part the unanimous opinion of the Commission, any Conciliator shall be entitled to deliver a separate opinion. ARTICLE 10 A conciliation shall be deemed unsuccessful if, 90 days after the parties have been notified of the recommendation, either party shall not have notified the other party of its acceptance of the recommendation. Conciliation shall likewise be deemed unsuccessful if the Commission shall not have been established within the period prescribed in the third paragraph of Article 3 above, or provided the parties have not agreed otherwise, if the Commission shall not have issued its recom mendation within one year from the date on which the Chairman of the Commission was nominated. ARTICLE 11 1. Each member of the Commission shall receive remuneration for his work, such remuneration to be fixed by agreement between the parties which shall each contribute an equal proportion. 2. Contributions for miscellaneous expenditure incurred by the work of the Commission shall be apportioned in the same manner. ARTICLE 12 The parties to the controversy may at any time during the conciliation procedure decide in agreement to have recourse to a different procedure for settlement of disputes. CHAPTER II.-ARBITRATION ARTICLE 13 1. Arbitration procedure, unless the parties decide otherwise, shall be in accordance with the rules set out in this chapter. 2. Where conciliation is unsuccessful, a request for arbitration may only be made within a period of 180 days following the failure of conciliation. ARTICLE 14 The Arbitration Tribunal shall consist of three members: one Arbitrator nominated by the coastal state which took the measures, one Arbitrator nominated by the state the nationals or property of which have been affected by those measures, and another Arbitrator who shall be nominated by agreement between the two first-named, and shall act as its Chairman. ARTICLE 15 1. If, at the end of a period of 60 days from the nomination of the second Arbitrator, the Chairman of the Tribunal shall not have been nominated, the Secretary-General of the Organization upon request of either party shall within a further period of 60 days proceed to such nomination, selecting from a list of qualified persons previously drawn up in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 above. This list shall be separate from the list of experts prescribed in Article IV of the Convention and from the list of Conciliators prescribed in Article 4 of the present Annex: the name of the same person may, however, appear both on the list of Conciliators and on the list of Arbitrators. A person who has acted as Conciliator in a dispute may not, however, be chosen to act as Arbitrator in the same matter. 2. If, within a period of 60 days from the date of the receipt of the request, one of the parties shall not have nominated the member of the Tribunal for whose designation it is responsible, the other party may directly inform the Secretary-General of the Organiaztion who shall nominate the Chairman of the Tribunal within a period of 60 days, selecting him from the list prescribed in paragraph 1 of the present article. 3. The Chairman of the Tribunal shall, upon nomination, request the party which has not provided an Arbitrator, to do so in the same manner and under the same conditions. If the party does not make the required nomination, the Chairman of the Tribunal shall request the Secretary-General of the Organization to make the nomination in the form and conditions prescribed in the preceding paragraph. 4. The Chairman of the Tribunal, if nominated under the provisions of the present article, shall not be or have been a national of one of the parties concerned, except with the consent of the other party or parties. 5. In the case of the decease or default of an Arbitrator for whose nomination one of the parties is responsible, the said party shall nominate a replacement within a period of 60 days from the date of decease or default. Should the said party not make the nomination, the arbitration shall proceed under the remaining Arbitrators. In the case of decease or default of the Chairman of the Tribunal, a replacement shall be nominated in accordance with the provisions of Article 14 above, or in the absence of agreement between the members of the Tribunal within a period of 60 days of the decease or default, according to the provisions of the present article. ARTICLE 16 If a procedure has been initiated between two parties, any other party, the nationals or property of which have been affected by the same measures or which is a coastal state having taken similar measures, may join in the arbitration procedure by giving written notice to the parties which have originally initiated the procedure unless either of the latter parties objects to such joinder. ARTICLE 17 Any Arbitration Tribunal established under the provisions of the present Annex shall decide its own rules of procedure. ARTICLE 18 1. Decisions of the Tribunal both as to its procedure and its place of meeting and as to any controversy laid before it, shall be taken by majority vote of its members; the absence or abstention of one of the members of the Tribunal for whose nomination the parties were responsible shall not constitute an impediment to the Tribunal reaching a decision. In cases of equal voting, the Chairman shall cast the deciding vote. 2. The Parties shall facilitate the work of the Tribunal and in particular, in accordance with their legislation, and using all means at their disposal: (a) provide the Tribunal with the necessary documents and information; (b) enable the Tribunal to enter their territory, to hear witnesses or experts, and to visit the scene. 90-224 O 73 23 3. Absence or default of one party shall not constitute an impediment to the procedure. ARTICLE 19 1. The award of the Tribunal shall be accompanied by a statement of reasons. It shall be final and without appeal. The parties shall immediately comply with the award. 2. Any controversy which may arise between the parties as regards interpretation and execution of the award may be submitted by either party for judgment to the Tribunal which made the award, or, if it is not available, to another Tribunal constituted for this purpose in the same manner as the original Tribunal. International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage Signed at Brussels, November 29, 1969 The States Parties to the present Convention, CONSCIOUS of the dangers of pollution posed by the worldwide maritime carriage of oil in bulk, CONVINCED of the need to ensure that adequate compensation is available to persons who suffer damage caused by pollution resulting from the escape or discharge of oil from ships, DESIRING to adopt uniform international rules and procedures for determining questions of liability and providing adequate compensation in such cases, HAVE AGREED as follows: ARTICLE I For the purposes of this Convention: 1. "Ship" means any sea-going vessel and any seaborne craft of any type whatsoever, actually carrying oil in bulk as cargo. 2. "Person" means any individual or partnership or any public or private body, whether corporate or not, including a state or any of its constituent subdivisions. 3. "Owner" means the person or persons registered as the owner of the ship or, in the absence of registration, the person or persons owning the ship. However in the case of a ship owned by a state and operated by a company which in that state is registered as the ship's operator, "owner" shall mean such company. 4. "State of the ship's registry" means in relation to registered ships the state of registration of the ship, and in relation to unregistered ships the state whose flag the ship is flying. 5. "Oil" means any persistent oil such as crude oil, fuel oil, heavy diesel oil, lubricating oil and whale oil, whether carried on board a ship as cargo or in the bunkers of such a ship. 6. "Pollution damage" means loss or damage caused outside the ship carrying oil by contamination resulting from the escape or discharge of oil from the ship, wherever such escape or discharge may occur, and includes the costs of preventive measures and further loss or damage caused by preventive measures. 7. "Preventive measures" means any reasonable measures taken by any person after an incident has occurred to prevent or minimize pollution damage. 8. "Incident" means any occurrence, or series of occurrences having the same origin, which causes pollution damage. 9. "Organization" means the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization. |