Abstract:
The problem of pollution of the marine environment has become one of the most important and dangerous problems facing mankind, because the seas cover most of the Earth's area and it is in its contact, overlapping and mixing of its waters as a natural unit, which makes the damages resulting from its pollution extend to every part of it regardless of the legal system that operates To divide their regions.Oil is at the forefront of pollutants that pose a great danger to the marine environment as a result of exploration, extraction, refining, and transport activities, which sometimes end in real disasters due to many marine accidents of some giant oil tankers, in addition to what these tankers throw into the sea from the balance water mixed with the remaining oil after unloading. However, the problem may be limited to the effectiveness of international legislation in the field of protecting the marine environment in preserving the safety of the marine environment from oil-oil pollution and the feasibility of international agreements related to this in the event that
international responsibility arises and preventive measures fail then and compensation for environmental damage to repair the damage and rebalance the environmental elements. The reluctance of some major countries to join the most important international agreements that govern the field of international responsibility and compensation for damages resulting from oil oil pollution.