Review article
LIABILITY OF THE CARRIER FOR NUCLEAR DAMAGE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONVENTION ON SUPPLEMENTARY COMPENSATION FOR NUCLEAR DAMAGE
Petra Amižić Jelovčić
Ivan Perković
Abstract
Considering extremly dangerous nature of nuclear matter, amendments to the existing regulation concerning the liability for compensation of nuclear damage were found necessary. Having in mind defi ciencies of Paris and Vienna Convention, in 1997. Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage was adopted with the intention of creating global regime of liability. Convention is consistent with the basic nuclear principles but it also contains many encanced provisions compared to previously mentioned nuclear conventions and it gives, in the opinion of authors, adequate protection to injured parties. Likewise, by introducing the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage a major breakthrough towards the unifi cation of nuclear law was made
Keywords
liability for nuclear damage; supplementary compensation; nuclear conventions
Hrčak ID:
31303
URI
Publication date:
15.9.2008.
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