Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage

Protocol to Amend the 1963 Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage

For some time, the IAEA Standing Committee on Liability for Nuclear Damage has been reviewing the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and preparing a new convention on supplementary financing.

Based on the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, Croatia has adopted, in 1998, the Law on Liability for Nuclear Damage which regulates liability in usage and management of nuclear materials.

Such liability may be criminal, civil or administrative.

Last year my country ratified the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, and the Joint Protocol Relating to the Application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention.

Ibid. at para 4.39 (citing Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy, 29 July 1960, art. 9, 956 United Nations Treaty Series 251 Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, 29 May 1963, art.

See also article 25 (2) of the Convention on Civil Liability for Damage resulting from Activities Dangerous to the Environment, Lugano, 1993.

Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and Optional Protocol concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes (Act No. 17,051 of 14 December 1998)

Uruguay's accession to the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and the Optional Protocol concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes was approved.

3(3), 1340 United Nations Treaty Series 61, 12 ILM 1375 International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 29 November 1969, arts.

Convention on Civil Liability for Damage caused during Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, Rail and Inland Navigation Vessels (CRTD). Geneva, 10 October 1989

Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy (Paris Convention)

There is a strong view that the channelling of liability to the shipowner would be inappropriate and that the Parties to the Paris Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy and the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage must ensure provision in those Conventions for this type of compensation.

In fact, you're building a long term liability by inflating civil service.

The Government has mandated a group of experts to prepare proposals for Ukraine apos s adherence to the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage.

Fourthly, liability principles should be based primarily on civil liability, and a liability regime ought consequently to impose liability on the operator in addition, there should be appropriate financial guarantees as proposed in draft principle 4.

Thirty seven States reported having established criminal liability of legal persons, either as the only form of liability (nine States) or together with civil or administrative forms of liability (or both).

In March 2005, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation passed a law ratifying the 1963 Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage.

Convention Supplementary to the Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29 July 1960 (Paris Convention)

States Parties that have not yet done so are invited either to accede to the Vienna Conventions or Paris and Brussels Conventions on civil nuclear liability or to introduce national legislation on civil nuclear liability.

Under the Republic of Kazakhstan law on compulsory tour operator and travel agent civil liability insurance (December 2003), compulsory civil liability insurance is being introduced in the Republic for tourism organizations that provide tourism services.

Romania is already a party to the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and the Joint Protocol relating to the application of the Vienna and Paris Conventions.

Legal persons bear criminal and civil liability for the activities mentioned in the Optional Protocol.

Moreover, civil redress may be sought under the Crown Liability Act or at common law.

In this regard, there is a certain validity in giving more attention to the issue of liability (if not civil liability per se) rather than responsibility.

(b) Affirms the joint liability of the State, its public bodies and officials in civil matters

The Russian Federation thus acknowledged the primacy of international law in regulating civil liability for nuclear damage.

The draft law on civil liability in case of nuclear damage, meanwhile, was adopted on 20 January 2005.

Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade and Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in International Trade.

Each State Party may give consideration to establishing mechanisms to share with other States Parties information or evidence needed to establish criminal, civil or administrative liability pursuant to article 10 of the present Convention.

He submits that a civil claim under the Act on Civil Liability would not be effective, as both the Commissioner and the Prosecutor have rejected his complaint.

The liability of the defendant for any financial loss is a question to be determined in a civil suit.

However, the international community can, and indeed must, build upon this achievement and complete the negotiation of a nuclear liability convention which will establish a new international liability regime.

Moreover, it extended potential liability far beyond that currently recognized by international law or any existing convention.

The delegation of Bulgaria would like to inform the Assembly that by a law dated 27 July 1994 the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria has ratified the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and the Joint Protocol on the application of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention.

The civil liability of the latter came into play only through the very complicated procedure of appeal against judicial misconduct.

However, either civil (Uzbekistan) or administrative (Germany) or both civil and administrative (Austria, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cambodia, Ecuador, Greece, Peru and the Russian Federation) forms of liability had been established.

Latvia (criminal liability) and Mexico (liability in general).

the standard of liability (strict liability was favoured)

United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade (Vienna, 19 April 1991)

United Nations Convention on the Liability of Operators of Transport Terminals in International Trade (Vienna, 19 April 1991)

Liability of the carrier and shipper for a breach of obligation under the Convention not already dealt with

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2. Subject to the legal principles of the State Party, the liability of legal persons may be criminal, civil or administrative.