دور المسؤولية المدنية في مكافحة ظاهرة التلوث البحري بالبترول

الملخص EN

Civil responsibility in the field of marine pollution by petroleum plays a very important role in the prevention and repair of damages resulting from marine pollution, whatever its source.

There are many cases in which civil liability is objective by law, so the legislator can take into account the special risks resulting from the exercise of some activities It establishes liability on risk, which is special systems of liability in the areas related to it, including civil liability for shipowners for marine pollution with fuel, and as a result of the international nature of this responsibility, the large countries have concluded an international agreement on civil liability for damages resulting from fuel pollution known as the Brussels Convention Amended under the London Agreement of 2001, and thus these two conventions have clarified the principles of this responsibility, as they adopted the principle of objective liability, the principle of limited liability, in addition to the principle of its focus in the person of the ship owner, which is the position adopted by our legislator in the maritime law and the environmental protection law.