No claim for compensation for damage shall be made against the owner otherwise than in accordance with this.

Subject to paragraph 6, no claim for compensation for damage under this Convention or otherwise may be made against:

If rightful claimants for compensation for personal easements and real encumbrances cannot reach agreement with the creditors of a lower order of precedence as to the amount of compensation, this amount of compensation shall be determined by the court;

If the court complies with an employee's claim for salary compensation only in part, it shall instruct him on his right to bring an action in the competent court in respect of the remaining part of the claim.

The amounts of such claims shall be calculated, mutatis mutandis, in the manner applying to compensation for personal easements and real encumbrances.

Any claim for compensation for damage may be brought directly against the insurer or other person providing financial securit for the owner's liability for damage.

Whereas it is necessary to protect operators permanently against such claims and to prevent Iraq from obtaining compensation for the negative effects of the embargo;

After the repayment of the claims under Article 197 of the present Law, the following shall be repaid: claims secured by mortgage; claims of creditors upon whose applications the court has permitted execution; and compensations for personal easements and real encumbrances which terminate due to the sale of the encumbered property.

Where the amount of established claims against the HNS Fund exceeds the aggregate amount of compensation payable under paragraph 5, the amount available shall be distributed in such a manner that the proportion between any established claim and the amount of compensation actually recovered by the claimant under this Convention shall be the same for all claimants.

The purchaser and rightful claimant of a personal easement or real encumbrance may enter an agreement under which the purchaser shall assume the easement and/or encumbrance, while the compensation determined in the manner provided in the first paragraph of the present Article shall be deducted from the sale price.

Where owners or other persons establish that they may be compelled to pay at a later date in whole or in part any such amount of compensation, with regard to which the right of subrogation would have been enjoyed under paragraphs 5 or 6 had the compensation been paid before the fund was distributed, the court or other competent authority of the State where the fund has been constituted may order that a sufficient sum shall be provisionally set aside to enable such person at such later date to enforce the claim against the fund.

to approve settlements of claims against the HNS Fund, to take decisions in respect of the distribution among claimants of the available amount of compensation in accordance with Article 14 and to determine the terms and conditions according to which provisional payments in respect of claims shall be made with a view to ensuring that victims of damage are compensated as promptly as possible;

because the owner liable for the damage under Chapter II is financially incapable of meeting the obligations under this Convention in full and any financial security that may be provided under Chapter II does not cover or is insufficient to satisfy the claims for compensation for damage; an owner being treated as financially incapable of meeting these obligations and a financial security being treated as insufficient if the person suffering the damage has been unable to obtain full satisfaction of the amount of compensation due under Chapter II after having taken all reasonable steps to pursue the available legal remedies;

to establish a Committee on Claims for Compensation with at least seven and not more than 15 members and any temporary or permanent subsidiary body it may consider to be necessary, to define its terms of reference and to give it the authority needed to perform the functions entrusted to it; when appointing the members of such body, the Assembly shall endeavour to secure an equitable geographical distribution of members and to ensure that the States Parties are appropriately represented; the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly may be applied, mutatis mutandis, for the work of such subsidiary body;