Brussels Convention on Assistance and Salvage at Sea

The Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Assistance and Salvage at Sea is an international agreement that regulates the basis of the level and distribution of the mountains and auxiliary wage in shipwrecks.

His full name is the International Convention of 23 September 1910, regarding the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Assistance and Salvage at Sea.

Particulars

The set of rules was adopted on 23 September 1910, hosted by the Comité Maritime International First diplomatic Seerechtkonferenz in Brussels and is the first international rescue Agreement. The contract is one of the oldest still in force Seerechtsabkommen. It comprises 19 items, in which regulated basically among other things, on which vessels in distress and what Berger that the Convention must be applied when a ship at all is in distress, the conditions under which aid performance or mountains contract comes into existence when an intervention, or a partial or complete recovery is present and stand in what circumstances a assistance or a rescue. Furthermore, the Convention defines the rules when a mountain or auxiliary wage may be required as well as its height ( the salvage award may not, for example, exceed the value of the salvaged goods). Was taken over the open already from the older standard contract Lloyd 's Form ( LOF ) known principle of " no cure - no pay" ( German: no successful recovery - no salvage ).

Which entered into force on March 1, 1913 agreement was extended in 1967 by a Protocol, which entered into force on August 15, 1977. However, the Additional Protocol occurred in only a small portion of the Contracting States.

The provisions of the resolution adopted rules and regulations have been adopted in Germany in the Commercial Code.