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Pigovian taxation at the supranational level: Fiscal provisions of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund

Auteur
Herber B.P.
Périodique/Collection
The Journal of Environment & Development | Vol. 6(2); 110 - 122; 13 p.
Date
1997
Source
IUCN (ID: ANA-060802)
Éditeur | Lieu de publication
University of California | San Diego, CA, USA
Langue
Anglais
Champ d'application
International
Sujet
Mer
Mot clé
Gestion des ressources marines Subvention/incitation Pollution par les hydrocarbures
Résumé

The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund, viewed from the perspective of the public finance economist, encompasses a unique and little known effort to impose the generic features of a Pigovian environmental tax at the international level. The tax is part of an eclectic insurance and fiscal scheme for internalizing the negative externalities of oil pollution in international waters. Its link to the insurance component of the policy format tends to obscure its tax characteristics and to make it politically more acceptable as well. The IOPC Fund regime was established under the umbrella of two international treaties signed in 1969 and 1971 in the wake of the disastrous Torrey Canyon oil spilll in British waters several years earlier. The tax may serve as a prototype for the use of economic incentive instruments in other international environmental problem areas

D'autres références

Traité

Convention internationale sur la responsabilité civile pour des dommages dus à la pollution par les hydrocarbures

Traité | Multilatéral | Brussels |

Mot clé: Navigation, Principe pollueur-payeur, Transport/dépôt, Pollution par les hydrocarbures, Responsabilité/indemnisation

Source: IUCN (ID: TRE-000120)