Decision ID: 001158

In July 2000 the 1992 Fund Executive Committee, recalling that the United Arab Emirates was Party to the 1969 Civil Liability Convention and the 1971 Fund Convention as well as to the 1992 Civil Liability Convention and the 1992 Fund Convention, took the view that since the certificate of provisional registration had been issued by the Registry of Honduras, and Honduras was a Party to the 1969 Civil Liability Convention but not the 1992 Civil Liability Convention, the United Arab Emirates would be under a treaty obligation to apply the 1969 Civil Liability Convention in respect of the shipowner’s liability (cf Article 30.4(b) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties). The Committee decided that the Director should inform the authorities of the United Arab Emirates that, in the view of the 1992 Fund, the 1971 and 1992 Fund Conventions applied to the incident. The Director was instructed to give further consideration to the question of the distribution of liabilities between the 1971 and 1992 Funds.