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Example Claim Form - Instructions

rehabilitating and treating contaminated wildlife who may be unable to work because of
(appropriate to the scale of the problem); a government-imposed fishing ban.
● Dispose of oil/oily waste; D - Economic loss in the tourism
● Recover oil from wrecks. sector and other related businesses
B - Property Damage Compensation is payable for:
Compensation is payable for the reasonable ● Loss of profit for businesses in the tourism
costs of: sector or which derive a large part of their
income from tourists;
● Cleaning, repairing or replacing property
contaminated by oil, eg hulls of vessels, ● The costs of reasonable measures such as
fishing gear, and mariculture facilities; targeted marketing campaigns, which are 5
intended to prevent or reduce economic
● Cleaning intakes, machinery and equipment of
losses by countering the negative effects
industrial installations that abstract seawater,
which can result from a major incident.
which have been contaminated by oil, e.g. power
stations and desalination plants, fish farms etc.; E - Other losses including costs of
reasonable measures to reinstate the
● Damage to facilities and infrastructure e.g.
environment and post-spill studies
roads, piers and embankments resulting from
Compensation is payable for:
clean-up operations (account is taken of the
condition of the property prior to the incident, ● Economic loss which can be quantified in
any betterment resulting from repairs and monetary terms, e.g. a reduction in revenue
for a not-for-profit marine park;
normal repair schedules).
● Costs of reasonable studies to establish the
C - Economic loss in the fisheries, nature and extent of the damage caused
mariculture and fish processing to the environment by the oil spill and to
sectors
determine whether or not reinstatement
Compensation may be payable in the fisheries,
measures are necessary and feasible;
mariculture and fish processing sectors for:
● Costs of reasonable measures to reinstate
● The loss of earnings by the owners of property
contaminated environment, which are technically,
contaminated by oil (consequential loss) e.g. economically and environmentally feasible. The
fishermen or owners of mariculture facilities
aim of any reasonable reinstatement measures
whose gear/nets have become contaminated should be to re-establish a biological community
may suffer loss for the period when they are in which the organisms characteristic of that
prevented from fishing, pending the gear being
community at the time of the incident are present
cleaned or replaced;
and functioning normally.
● Losses suffered by persons whose property has
not been contaminated by oil (pure economic
loss) but who are unable to work or who have The specific supporting evidence required in
lost revenue because of the oil contamination, support of each category of claim is detailed in
the Checklists at the start of each section.
e.g. fishermen may decide not to go fishing in
order to prevent their gear and catch becoming Further information upon the criteria applicable to
contaminated resulting in economic loss, or each category is available in the Claims Manual.