6
4.3.2 Conclusions
147
4.4 Compulsory Financial Security of the Nuclear Facility
Operator’s Liability
149
4.4.1 Liability Insurance versus Other Forms of Financial Security
152
4.5 Time Limitation of the Nuclear Damages Claims
158
4.5.1 Introductory Remarks
158
4.5.2 Time Limitation of the Damages Claims in the International
Nuclear Liability Conventions
160
4.5.2.1 Conventions of the “First Generation”
160
4.5.2.2 Conventions of the “Second Generation”
162
4.6 The Competence and the Jurisdiction of the Court over
the Nuclear Damages Cases
163
4.6.1 International Jurisdiction of the Court for Proceedings and
Decision on Compensation of Nuclear Damage
165
4.6.1.1 Conventions of the “First Generation”
165
4.6.1.2 Jurisdiction of the Court Established between States
Bound by the Joint Protocol Relating to the Application
of the Vienna Convention and the Paris Convention
168
4.6.1.3 Modification of the Jurisdiction Rules According
to the 1997 and 2004 Protocols Amending the Basic
Conventions on Nuclear Liability
173
4.6.2 Recognition and Enforcement of Judgements on Nuclear
Damage Compensation
174
5 Nuclear Liability Regime in Slovakia
177
5.1 Liable Person and Mechanism of Exercising the Right
to Compensation of Nuclear Damage
181
5.2 Insurance or Other Financial Security of the Liability
of the Operator for Nuclear Damage
185
5.3 The Concept of Nuclear Damage
188
5.4 Time Limitation for Exercising the Claim to Compensation
of Nuclear Damage
190
5.5 General versus Special Jurisdiction of the Court for Proceedings
and Decision on Compensation of Nuclear Damage
194
Conclusions
198
References
202
Index
223