颁布日期:19900329 颁布单位:伦敦
THE PARTIES TO THE PRESENT PROTOCOL,
CONSIDERING that it is desirable to amend the Athens Conventionrelating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, done atAthens on 13 December 1974, to provide for enhanced compensation and toestablish a simplified procedure for updating the limitation amounts.
HAVE AGREED as follows:Article I
For the purpose of this Protocol:
1. “Convention” means the Athens Convention relating to the Carriageof Passengers and their Luggage by Sea, 1974. For States Parties to theProtocol of 1976 to the Convention, such reference shall be deemed toinclude the Convention as amended by that Protocol.
2. “Organization” means the International Maritime Organization.
3. “Secretary-General” means the Secretary-General of theOrganization.Article II
(1) Article 1, paragraph 10 of the Convention is replaced by thefollowing text:
10 “Organization” means the International Maritime Organization.
(2) Article 7, paragraph 1 of the Convention is replaced by thefollowing text:
1 The liability of the carrier for the death of or personal injuryto a passenger shall in no case exceed 175,000 units of account percarriage. Where, in accordance with the law of the court seized of thecase, damages are awarded in the form of periodical income payments, theequivalent capital value of those payments shall not exceed the saidlimit.
(3) Article 8 of the Convention is replaced by the following text:
1. The liability of the carrier for the loss of or damage to cabinluggage shall in no case exceed 1,800 units of account per passenger, percarriage.
2. The liability of the carrier for the loss of or damage tovehicles including all luggage carried in or on the vehicle shall in nocase exceed 10,000 units of account per vehicle, per carriage.