Decision ID: 001422

In February 2003 the 1992 Fund Executive Committee noted that the French State had brought legal action in the Tribunal de Grande Instance (Civil Court) in Lorient against the registered owner of the Erika (Tevere Shipping Co Ltd), the P&I insurer (Steamship Mutual), the manager of the ship (Panship Management & Services Srl), the time charterer (Selmont International Inc), the voyage charterer (Total Transport Corporation), the limitation fund established under the 1992 Civil Liability Convention and the 1992 Fund requesting the Court to order the defendants, except the limitation fund and the 1992 Fund, to pay £125 million and to declare that the limitation fund and the 1992 Fund should execute the judgement within the respective limits laid down in the 1992 Civil Liability Convention and the 1992 Fund Convention.