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Example Claim Form
PART 2 Section E
Other Losses
Section E

Completing a claim for other losses

This section of the claim form refers to claims measures are necessary and feasible (see
for other losses, including loss of profit from Part 1 below).
impairment to the environment and costs of
For further information relating to the types of
reasonable measures of reinstatement to the
claims which are admissible for compensation,
environment only. For other types of claims,
please refer to the Claims Manual (available
please consider the alternative sections of the
via the Publications section of the IOPC Funds'
claim form.
website, www.iopcfunds.org) and the checklist
You must respond as fully and accurately as below.
possible to avoid delays in processing your
request. If there is not enough space for your Checklist
36 answer, please use extra pages clearly marking Information required relating to claims for
them to show to which question they relate. reinstatement and post-spill studies:

You must provide documents or other evidence ● Delineation of the area affected by the spill,
in support of your claim. If you are claiming as describing the extent, distribution and level
an individual or business/corporation, please of pollution and the resources impacted by
provide details of all taxes/levies paid, including the oil (for example using maps or nautical
the amounts paid and the recipient.
charts, supported by photographs, video or
Scope of compensation other recording media)

Compensation is payable for: ● Laboratory analysis and/or other evidence
● Economic loss which can be quantified in linking the oil pollution with the ship involved
monetary terms e.g. a reduction in revenue in the incident (such as chemical analysis of
for a not-for-profit marine park. For claims oil samples, relevant wind, tide and current
related to economic loss which can be data, observation and plotting of floating oil
quantified in monetary terms, please refer movements)
to sections C and D of the claim form; ● Details, copies and results of any studies
● Costs of reasonable measures to reinstate undertaken to assess environmental damage,
the contaminated environment, which are together with a breakdown of the costs
technically, economically and environmentally involved
feasible. The aim of any reasonable
● Detailed description of any reinstatement
reinstatement measures should be to re-
measures undertaken or to be undertaken
establish a biological community in which the
and a breakdown of the costs
organisms characteristic of that community
at the time of the incident are present and For further information please refer to section
functioning normally. 3.6 in the Claims Manual.

● Costs of reasonable studies to establish the
nature and extent of the damage caused
to the environment by the oil spill and to
determine whether or not reinstatement