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Legislative background

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Foreword -- The authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Detailed table of contents -- Table of cases and incidents -- Table of legislation -- Table of international instruments and agreements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Part I -- Introduction: The Environmental Aspects of Shipping -- 1 The Environmental Aspects of Shipping -- Introduction -- Modern concerns -- Public interest -- Role of international law -- Framework of international law and practice -- Law of the sea -- International organisations

International Maritime Organization (IMO) -- International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds) -- Non-governmental organisations -- Laws on environmental aspects of shipping -- Liability and compensation for pollution and other impacts on the environment -- Laws to prevent, reduce and control pollution -- Effect of international regimes -- general principles -- Entry into force -- Amendment of international conventions and the tacit acceptance procedure -- Differences of effect between treaties and implementing legislation -- Interpretation of treaties

Compliance with treaty obligations -- Parties involved -- Regional, national and other domestic laws -- Development of marine environmental laws -- From sailing ships to supertankers -- Impacts on the environment -- Pollution from operational discharges -- Pollution caused by maritime accidents -- Emergence of the supertanker -- Torrey Canyon -- Legal problems highlighted by the Torrey Canyon -- Other developments -- International developments 1967-1978 -- International response to the Torrey Canyon -- TOVALOP and ITOPF -- Brussels Conference 1969 -- Intervention Convention 1969

Civil Liability Convention 1969 -- The oil industry contribution -- CRISTAL -- Fund Convention 1971 -- Limitation of liability regimes -- Protection of the environment -- international rules and standards -- Dumping at sea -- Ship safety -- COLREGS -- SOLAS -- Prevention of pollution from ships -- MARPOL -- Developments in the United States 1967-1978 -- Reaction to Torrey Canyon and other spills -- Federal oil spill legislation -- Askew v. American Waterways Operators and the emergence of state pollution laws -- Limitation of Liability Act

Ray v. Atlantic Richfield Co. and the limits of state regulation -- International developments 1978-1990 -- Amoco Cadiz -- Revision of the Civil Liability and Fund Conventions -- The 1984 Protocols -- Salvage and the environment -- 1989 International Convention on Salvage -- Law of the sea and protection of the environment -- Developments in the United States 1978-1990 -- Clean Water Act -- The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act amendments -- Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act -- Deepwater Port Act -- Legislative developments -- Exxon Valdez -- Oil Pollution Act of 1990

A highly readable introductory chapter amounting to a book within a book, this is a volume of great importance to all whose work or studies are concerned with marine environmental affairs.