Resolution of advice and consent, Treaty Doc. 99-12B

TEXT OF RESOLUTION OF ADVISE AND CONSENT TO RATIFICATION AS REPORTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Resolved, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of the Protocol of 1984 to Amend the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971, subject to the following understandings and declarations: ~Understandings The United States understands that nothing in the Protocol of 1984 to Amend the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage prevents any claimant from combining damage awards from two or more incidents which have injured the same or adjacent resources to fund a restoration project which addresses those incidents. (2) Any damages not compensable due to the definition of pollution damage in Article I, paragraph 6 of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, as amended by Article 2, paragraph 3 of the 1984 Protocol thereto, or by any future interpretation of the Liability Convention as so amended, or of the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, as amended by the 1984 Protocol thereto, may be provided for by laws of the United States, its States, territories or the District of Columbia. ~Declarations (1) In accordance with Article 30 of the Protocol of 1984 to Amend the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971, the United States declares that its instrument of ratification of that Protocol shall not take effect for the purpose of said Article 30 until the end of the 6-month period described in Article 31 of that Protocol. (2) In accordance with Article 14 of the International Convention Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971, as amended, the United States declares that it assumes itself all obligations that are incumbent under the Convention on all persons who are liable to contribute to the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund 1984 (the Fund) in accordance with Article 10, paragraph 1, in respect of oil received within the territory of the United States. The Fund shall be entitled to enforce all such obligations exclusively under the applicable U. S. Federal oil pollution liability and compensation statute.