ARGENTINA Law and Practice Contributed by: María Belén Espiñeira, International Transport & Logistics Legal Consultants – MB Espiñeira & Abogados
(a) the name, surname, filiation, nationality, profession and domicile of the creditor and the debtor; (b) particulars of the ship according to the certificate of registration; (c) relevant details of the contract; and (d) the amount of the loan, the interest rate agreed and the terms of payment. • Evidence of having paid salaries and all social security contributions of the crew serving the vessel in her last voyage must be submitted. 1.7 Ship Ownership and Mortgages Registry The information recorded by the National Regis - try of Ships is available to those who have a jus - tified interest in enquiring about the ownership, mortgages, liens and encumbrances attached to vessels registered therein. Pursuant to Sec - tion 40 of Law 19,170, any interested party may request access to data regarding the certificates of ownership, liens and encumbrances of ves - sels by filling in form F-004-RNB. 2. Marine Casualties and Owners’ Liability 2.1 International Conventions: Pollution and Wreck Removal Argentina is not a party to any international con - vention covering wreck removal. Hence, domes - tic legislation applies (ie, the Argentine Naviga - tion Law and Law 16,526 concerning the legal regime applicable to wreck removal operations, Sections 12 to 18). Regarding pollution, Argentina ratified the 1992 Protocol amending the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage and the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil
Pollution Damage, 1971, thus becoming a party to those conventions. Argentina is not a party to the 2003 Protocol establishing an International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund. In addition, Argentina has not ratified the Inter - national Convention on Civil Liability for Bun- ker Oil Pollution Damage, nor the International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Haz - ardous and Noxious Substances, 1996, and its amending protocols. Regarding marine pollution prevention, Argen - tina has ratified the following international con - ventions: • the International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969; • the International Convention for the Preven - tion of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 and Protocol of 1997; • the International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation, 1990; • the co-operation agreement with Uruguay to Prevent and Combat Incidents of Pollution of the Aquatic Environment Caused by Hydro - carbons and Other Harmful Substances, 1987; and • the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972. 2.2 International Conventions: Collision and Salvage Argentina is a signatory to the Brussels Con - vention for the Unification of Certain Rules with Respect to Assistance and Salvage at Sea, and of the International Convention for the Unifica -
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