ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF CLC IN THE ERIKA INCIDENT

Abstract

Since it was adopted, CLC convention plays an important role in the compensation of ships' oil pollution damage. Therefore, State parties to the CLC regime are making progressive effort in the implementation of the 1992 CLC and the 1992 Fund Convention. Most of the States parties have enacted specific laws reflecting relevant provision of the CLC regime. Some other States implement the CLC regime through fragment parts of national legislation. This article, the author deeply analyzed the implementation of the CLC convention through Erika incident.