While the report focuses on the international liability and
compensation framework for oil pollution from tankers,
known as the International Oil Pollution Compensation
Fund (IOPC Fund) regime,43 it also highlights some of
the key features of two important related international
conventions that provide for liability and compensation
in respect of other types of ship-source pollution.
These are the International Convention on Civil Liability
for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001 (2001 BOPC),44
which covers bunker oil spills from ships other than
oil tankers, and the 1996 International Convention on
Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection
with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances
by Sea (1996 HNS Convention), which deals with
liability and compensation arising in connection
with the carriage of a broad range of hazardous and
noxious substances (HNS). An amending Protocol to
the 1996 HNS Convention had been adopted in April
201045 to address a range of practical problems that
had prevented many States from ratifying the 1996
Convention