ADOPTED: Done at London, 19 November 1976

REFERENCE: FUND PROT, 1976

ENTERED INTO FORCE: 22 November 1994

DEPOSITARY: IMO, London

SECRETARY: IMO, London

IMPLEMENTATION

AMENDMENTS

Article VIII

1. A Conference for the purpose of revising or amending the present Protocol may be convened by the Organization.

2. The Organization shall convene a Conference of Parties to the present Protocol for the purpose of revising or amending it at the request of not less than one-third of the Parties.

NOTIFICATIONS

Poland

“Poland will now calculate financial liabilities in cases of limitation of the liability of owners of sea-going ships and liability under the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund in terms of the Special Drawing Right, as defined by the International Monetary Fund.

However, those SDRs will be converted according to the method instigated by Poland, which is derived from the fact that Poland is not a member of the International Monetary Fund.

The method of conversion is that the Polish National Bank will fix a rate of exchange of the SDR to the Polish zloty through the conversion of the SDR to the United States dollar, according to the current rates of exchange quoted by Reuter. The US dollar will then be converted into Polish zloties at the rate of exchange quoted by the Polish National Bank from their current table of rates of foreign currencies.