Study On The Congolese International Legal Problems On The Civil Liability For The Damage Of Maritime Pollution

This document emphasizes the application of the civil liability for the maritime transport of oil in Congo.With the growth of oil industries,Congo's state has meeting more and more so many oil pollution problems.Oil pollution is a big danger to marine environmental.Oil pollution is almost come from to oil spill.An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity,and is a form of pollution.The term often refers to marine oil spills,where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters.The oil may be a variety of materials, including crude oil,refined petroleum products.Spills take months or even years to clean-up.Most human-made oil pollution comes from land-based activity,but public attention and regulation has tended to focus most sharply on seagoing oil tankers. That's right the republic of Congo has ratified some conventions on civil liability for oil pollution damage.The subject is based on the oil pollution problems that this country has meeting and how this under-developing country applied those convention for ensure a good system of compensation and reparation at the victims of oil pollution.The document is devised into four parts.The first part is giving a general content of marine environment that explain the keys words of the topic.The second part concern the state's responsibility for the prevention of marine pollution.There we will analyze how the states party of the convention engaged its responsibility for ensuring a good application of the convention in order to ensure the compensation of the victims of oil pollution.In the civil liability and compensation for damage of oil pollution part,the liability of shipowners with regard to oil pollution has been examined.Under the CLC convention,fund convention,HNS and Bunker oil convention,the owner of the vessel carrying hazardous substances and oil is strictly liable for any damage caused even with the absence of any fault.Finally,the last part treats of the problems of oil pollution and the application of civil liability in Congo.Which measures that state has taking for compensate the victims of pollution damage in case of one incident happened.Some national system of compensation of oil pollution we will analyze for get a view of the compensation and reparation of the damages of oil pollution.To achieve a high quality of maritime transport and to better meet the interests of victims of accidents from damage due to pollution by oil...