# Council Decision of 2 March 2004 authorising the Member States to sign, ratify or accede to, in the interest of the European Community, the Protocol of 2003 to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992, and authorising Austria and Luxembourg, in the interest of the European Community, to accede to the underlying instruments (2004/246/EC), Article 1

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Protocol:
1.. ‘1992 Liability Convention’ means the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992;
2.. ‘1992 Fund Convention’ means the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992;
3.. ‘1992 Fund’ means the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund, 1992, established under the 1992 Fund Convention;
4.. ‘Contracting State’ means a Contracting State to this Protocol, unless stated otherwise;
5.. When provisions of the 1992 Fund Convention are incorporated by reference into this Protocol, ‘Fund’ in that Convention means ‘Supplementary Fund’, unless stated otherwise;
6.. ‘Ship’, ‘Person’, ‘Owner’, ‘Oil’, ‘Pollution Damage’, ‘Preventive Measures’ and ‘Incident’ have the same meaning as in Article I of the 1992 Liability Convention;
7.. ‘Contributing Oil’, ‘Unit of Account’, ‘Ton’, ‘Guarantor’ and ‘Terminal installation’ have the same meaning as in Article 1 of the 1992 Fund Convention, unless stated otherwise;
8.. ‘Established claim’ means a claim which has been recognised by the 1992 Fund or been accepted as admissible by decision of a competent court binding upon the 1992 Fund not subject to ordinary forms of review and which would have been fully compensated if the limit set out in Article 4(4), of the 1992 Fund Convention had not been applied to that incident;
9.. ‘Assembly’ means the Assembly of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund, 2003, unless otherwise indicated;
10.. ‘Organisation’ means the International Maritime Organisation;
11.. ‘Secretary-General’ means the Secretary-General of the Organisation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2004/246/annex/I/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-246/annex-I/article-1
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