The Commission shall take into accountexperience gained within the relevant international fora, such as the IMO and Euratom and the relevant international agreements, as well as the extent to which these instruments have entered into force and/or have been implemented by Member States and/or have been modified, taking account of all relevant instances of environmental damage resulting from such activities and the remedial action taken and the differences between the liability levels in Member States, and considering the relationship between shipowners' liability and oil receivers' contributions, having due regard to any relevant study undertaken by the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds.
Komisija upošteva izkušnje, pridobljene na mednarodnih forumih, na primer v IMO (Mednarodni pomorski organizaciji) in Euratomu in v okviru ustreznih mednarodnih sporazumov, pa tudi obseg njihove uveljavitve in/ali izvajanja v državah članicah in/ali spremembe, ob upoštevanju vseh primerov okoljske škode, ki so bili posledica takih dejavnosti, sanacijskih ukrepov in razlik v stopnji odgovornosti v različnih državah članicah, ter ob upoštevanju razmerja med odgovornostjo lastnika ladje in prispevki prejemnika nafte, pri tem pa upošteva vse pomembne raziskave, ki jih je opravil Mednarodni sklad za povrnitev škode, nastale zaradi onesnaženja z nafto;