Decision ID: 003355

In October 1985 the 1971 Fund Assembly endorsed the Director’s opinion that States could not ultimately rely on voluntary schemes for compensation for oil pollution damage but that they considered it necessary to have an inter-governmental regime based on international legal instruments. In the view of the Assembly any voluntary scheme should, therefore, be constructed in such a way as not to interfere with the functioning of the system of compensation established by the Civil Liability Convention and the Fund Convention nor delay the entry into force of the 1984 Protocols to these Conventions.