(a) signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval;

(b) signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval followed by ratification, acceptance or approval; or

(c) accession.

ARTICLE XIV

1. Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected by the deposit of a formal instrument to that effect with the SecretaryGeneral of the Organization.

2. Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession deposited after the entry into force of an amendment to the present Convention with respect to all existing Contracting States, or after the completion of all measures required for the entry into force of the amendment with respect to those Contracting States shall be deemed to apply to the Convention as modified by the amendment.

ARTICLE XV

1. The present Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth day following the date on which governments of eight states including five states each with not less than 1,000,000 gross tons of tanker tonnage have either signed it without reservation as to ratification, acceptance or approval or have deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with the Secretary-General of the Organization. 2. For each state which subsequently ratifies, accepts, approves or accedes to it the present Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day after deposit by such state of the appropriate instrument.

ARTICLE XVI

1. The present Convention may be denounced by any Contracting State at any time after the date on which the Convention comes into force for that state.

2. Denunciation shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument with the Secretary-General of the Organization.

3. A denunciation shall take effect one year, or such longer period as may be specified in the instrument of denunciation, after its deposit with the Secretary-General of the Organization.

ARTICLE XVII

1. The United Nations, where it is the administering authority for a territory, or any Contracting State responsible for the international relations of a territory, shall as soon as possible consult with the appropriate authorities of such territory or take such other measures as may be appropriate, in order to extend the present Convention to that territory and may at any time by notification in writing to the SecretaryGeneral of the Organization declare that the present Convention shall extend to such territory.

2. The present Convention shall, from the date of receipt of the notification or from such other date as may be specified in the notification, extend to the territory named therein.

3. The United Nations, or any Contracting State which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 of this article may at any time after the date on which the Convention has been so extended to any territory

declare by notification in writing to the Secretary-General of the Organization that the present Convention shall cease to extend to any such territory named in the notification.

4. The present Convention shall cease to extend to any territory mentioned in such notification one year, or such longer period as may be specified therein, after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General of the Organization.

ARTICLE XVIII

1. A Conference for the purpose of revising or amending the present Convention may be convened by the Organization.

2. The Organization shall convene a Conference of the Contracting States for revising or amending the present Convention at the request of not less than one-third of the Contracting States.

ARTICLE XIX

1. The present Convention shall be deposited with the SecretaryGeneral of the Organization.

2. The Secretary-General of the Organization shall:

(a) inform all states which have signed or acceded to the Convention of

(i) each new signature or deposit of instrument together with the date thereof;

(ii) the deposit of any instrument of denunciation of this Convention together with the date of the deposit;

(iii) the extension of the present Convention to any territory under paragraph 1 of Article XVII and of the termination of any such extension under the provisions of paragraph 4 of that article stating in each case the date on which the present Convention has been or will cease to be so extended; (b) transmit certified true copies of the present Convention to all Signatory States and to all states which accede to the present Convention.

ARTICLE XX

As soon as the present Convention comes in force, the text shall be transmitted by the Secretary-General of the Organization to the Secretariat of the United Nations for registration and publication in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

ARTICLE XXI

The present Convention is established in a single copy in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic. Official translations in the Russian and Spanish languages shall be prepared and deposited with the signed original.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned being duly authorized by their respective governments for that purpose have signed the present Convention.

DONE at Brussels this twenty-ninth day of November 1969.

[Signed on behalf of the governments of Cameroon, Republic of China, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Korea, Malagasy Republic, Monaco, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and Yugoslavia.]

ANNEX

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE OR OTHER FINANCIAL SECURITY IN RESPECT OF CIVIL LIABILITY FOR OIL POLLUTION DAMAGE

Issued in accordance with the provisions of Article VII of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969.

Name of ship

Distinctive number or letters Port of registry Name and address of owner

This is to certify that there is in force in respect of the above-named ship a policy of insurance or other financial security satisfying the requirements of Article III of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969.

Type of Security

Duration of Security

Name and Address of the Insurer(s) and/or Guarantor (8)

1. If desired, the designation of the state may include a reference to the competent public authority of the country where the certificate is issued.

2. If the total amount of security has been furnished by more than one source, the amount of each of them should be indicated.

3. If security is furnished in several forms, these should be enumerated.

4. The entry "Duration of the Security" must stipulate the date on which such security takes effect.

International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954

Opened for signature at London May 12, 1954;

Ratification advised by the Senate of the United States of America, subject to an understanding, reservations, and a recommendation, May 16, 1961;

..

Ratified, and acceptance declared, by the President of the United States of America, subject to the said understanding, reservations, and recommendation, May 29, 1961;

Acceptance deposited with the Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization, subject to the said understanding, reservations, and recommendation, September 8, 1961; Proclaimed by the President of the United States of America December 8, 1961;

Entered into force for the United States of America December 8, 1961.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954, was opened for signature at London on May 12, 1954, remained open for signature for three months during which period it was signed in behalf of twenty States, not including the United States of America, and thereafter remained open for acceptance;

WHEREAS the text of the said Convention in the English and French languages, as certified by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is word for word as follows:

THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION OF THE SEA BY OIL, 1954

The Governments represented at the International Conference on Pollution of the Sea by Oil held in London from 26th April, 1954, to 12th May, 1954,

Desiring to take action by common agreement to prevent pollution of the sea by oil discharged from ships, and considering that this end may best be achieved by the conclusion of a Convention,

Have accordingly appointed the undersigned plenipotentiaries, who, having communicated their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: