Conventions and Amendments Relating to Pollution of the Sea by Oil: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, on Executive G, 91st Congress, 2d Session ... May 20, 1971U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 229 pages |
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Page 179 - ... recognize the worldwide and long-range character of environmental problems and, where consistent with the foreign policy of the United States, lend appropriate support to initiatives, resolutions, and programs designed to maximize international cooperation in anticipating and preventing a decline in the quality of mankind's world environment...
Page 12 - ... was wholly caused by an act or omission done with intent to cause damage by a third party, or (c) was wholly caused by the negligence or other wrongful act of any Government or other authority responsible for the maintenance of lights or other navigational aids in the exercise of that function.
Page 110 - Justice stated that under international law: [T]he parties are under an obligation to enter into negotiations with a view to arriving at an agreement, and not merely to go through a formal process of negotiation...
Page 40 - Voluntary Agreement Concerning Liability for Oil Pollution (TOVALOP), and the Contract Regarding an Interim Supplement to Tanker Liability for Oil Pollution...
Page 12 - Government, except where such third party can prove that such discharge was caused solely by (A) an act of God, (B) an act of war, (C) negligence on the part of the United States Government, or (D) an act or omission of another party without regard to whether such act or omission was or was not negligent, or any combination of the foregoing clauses.
Page 158 - In the ports or terminal installations in the territory of that State contributing oil carried by sea to such ports or terminal installations; and (b) In any installations situated in the territory of that Contracting State contributing oil which has been carried by sea and discharged in a port or terminal installation...
Page 117 - If the owner proves that the pollution damage resulted wholly or partially either from an act or omission done with intent to cause damage by the person who suffered the damage or from the negligence of that person, the owner may be exonerated wholly or partially from his liability to such person.
Page 113 - Convention may take such measures on the high .seas as may be necessary to prevent, mitigate or eliminate grave and imminent danger to their coastline or related interests from pollution or threat of pollution of the sea by oil, following upon a maritime casualty or acts related to such a casualty, which may reasonably be expected to result in major harmful consequences.
Page 155 - This Convention shall apply exclusively to pollution damage caused on the territory including the territorial sea of a Contracting State and to preventive measures taken to prevent or minimize such damage.
Page 138 - No liability for pollution damage shall attach to the owner if he proves that the damage: (a) resulted from an act of war, hostilities, civil war, insurrection or a natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable and irresistible character...