International Maritime Conventions Volume III: Protection of the Marine Environment
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CHAPTER 2
International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Cooperation, 1990 (OPRC Convention) with its Protocol of 2000 (OPRC-HNS Protocol)
Section I — The Convention of 1990
1 Introduction
This Convention is relevant because some of its provisions apply either to a phase that precedes that to which the provisions of the Intervention Convention apply or to the same phase, and therefore may overlap them1 and in both cases the question arises whether such provisions need to be coordinated.