Traduction de «dommages dus aux intempéries » (Français → Anglais) :

It authorises EU countries to sign, ratify or accede to the 2001 International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage (Bunkers Convention).

Article 14 ('Financial Guarantee') now requires that funds should be readily available at any given time for the rehabilitation of the land affected by the waste facility (the common position text stated 'rehabilitation of the site'); Article 14 also requires the size of the guarantee to be periodically (common position: appropriately) adjusted in accordance with any rehabilitation work needed to be carried out on the land affected by the waste facility; Article 10 ('Excavation voids') now requires Member States to endure that operators, when placing extractive waste back into excavation voids for rehabilitation and construction purpos ...[+++]es, to ensure the monitoring of the extractive waste and the excavation void (common position only referred to the extractive waste and not to the excavation void); Article 11 ('Construction and management of waste facilities') requires the competent authority to satisfy itself that the operator ensures that the waste facility is suitably located taking into particular account a number of factors which now include 'Community or national obligations relating to protected areas'.

Oil spills by tankers at sea are covered by the 1992 International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the 1992 International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage.

The Council also noted that there was wide concern that a coordinated approach be employed in pursuit of the objective of increasing the value of compensation for damage laid down by the International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage (IFC) with a view, in particular, to providing better cover for damage to the environment.

Proposed section 76 re-enacts the current geographical application of pollution damage (currently section 48(1)) but limits the application of Division 2 to those types of pollution damage not covered by Division 1 (i.e., International Conventions).

In adopting this position, the Commission took into account that - advances from the Bridging Fund will be made only where an applicant has established an admissible claim for Skuld Club/International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (I0PC) Fund compensation; the total of potential applicants is thought to be no more than about 10, which is the total of salmon farms in the fisheries exclusion zone; - the advances are to be recovered from the Skuld Club/IOPC Fund, and the amount of such advances is recommended by the Skuld Club/IOPC Fund Claims Office on the basis of its assessment of the loss or damage suffered in respect of which ther ...[+++]e is an entitlement to compensation; - as advances will relate to actual loss or damage suffered as a result of the Braer incident beneficiaries cannot, by definition, be placed in a more favourable economic position than before the incident.