Article 2

An International Supplementary Fund for compensation for pollution damage, to be named ‘The International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund, 2003’ (hereinafter ‘the Supplementary Fund’), is hereby established.

The Supplementary Fund shall in each Contracting State be recognised as a legal person capable under the laws of that State of assuming rights and obligations and of being a party in legal proceedings before the courts of that State. Each Contracting State shall recognise the Director of the Supplementary Fund as the legal representative of the Supplementary Fund.