OPOL Forms for Completion - Guidance about Forms to use.
8th December 2011
You may be aware that on 8 December OPOL decided to adopt new Rules and new Forms to strengthen and simplify the OPOL financial responsibility regime.
The new Forms will apply to all members joining OPOL on or after 1 January 2012. From that date any new member must use the new Forms.
All existing members of OPOL require to submit evidence of financial responsibility using the new Forms by no later than 30 June 2012.
During a transitional period between 1st January and 30th June 2012 an existing member can use the new Forms or the Forms in use in December 2011.
In the transitional period, if a member renews arrangements to establish financial responsibility, OPOL encourage that member to use the new Forms. This would mean that any member who between 1 January and 30 June 2012 uses the old Forms will not be required to submit additional Forms in the new format by the deadline of 30 June 2012. Thereafter new members and existing members must use the new Forms.
The new Forms are attached to the Rules adopted on 8 December and can be accessed on this web site in two locations:
- in this section under the heading: “New Forms in use for membership on and after 1 January 2012" and
- in the Rules section the new Forms are attached to the Rules of The Offshore Pollution Liability Association Limited (as at I January 2012).
New Forms in use for membership with effect on and after 1 January 2012.
These forms are available in PDF format and in Word for easier entry of data electronically.
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Form A – Application to become a party  
Form B – Rules for establishment of Financial Responsibility
Form FR- 1- Verification of Insurance (Insurer)
Form FR-2 –Verification of Insurance ( Broker or Agent)
Form FR-3- Verification of Guarantee with Schedule attached
Form FR-4- Verification of Self Insurance
Forms in use for membership effective as at December 2011:
Form A - Application to become a Party
Form B - Establishment
of Financial Responsibility
Form FR1 - Verification
of Insurance (Insurer)
Form FR2 - Verification
of Insurance (Broker)
Form FR3 - Operator's
Surety Bond Offshore Pollution Liability Agreement
Form FR4 - Operator's
Guaranty
Form FR5 - Acknowledgement
of Commitment of Subsidiary
INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETION OF FORMS
Form A. Application to become a Party
This form should be completed and returned to OPOL by an Operator or an intending Operator of an Offshore Facility located within an area to which the Offshore Pollution Liability Agreement (the Agreement) dated September 1974 applies.
A copy of the form will be returned to the Applicant by OPOL, countersigned to indicate acceptance.
Form B. Establishment of Financial Responsibility
It is a requirement of the Agreement that each Party shall provide OPOL with satisfactoryevidence of financial responsibility to meet its obligations under the Agreement. Rules indicating the means whereby such evidence may be provided are available in the Rules section of this site, together with appropriate forms for completion. Such forms should be sent toOPOL before any Offshore Facility, as defined in the Agreement, becomes operative.
All forms referred to in the OPOL Rules may be downloaded as PDF documents here.
If you do not already have the free PDF document reader, you may download it from Adobe here.
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