International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage

The purpose is to adopt uniform international rules and procedures for determining questions of liability and providing adequate compensation.

It is associated with and references: While BUNKER is apparently similar to CLC Convention – they are substantially different.

Unlike the CLC, the BUNKER Convention is not limited to persistent fuel oils and will apply to any hydrocarbon used to operate the ship.

[3] While the convention has been widely adopted, notable exceptions include Bolivia and Honduras — which are generally flag of convenience states—have not ratified the treaty.

[4] As with the CLC,[5] the United States of America was a driver behind the BUNKER convention, and had legislation in place similar to BUNKER provisions, the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, hence it claimed, the treaty did not need to be signed.