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Table 2.1 Top ten assessed contributors in 2012
Rank Country Amount GBP % of total assessment
1 Panama 5,404,125 18.63
2 Liberia 2,940,450 10.14
3 Marshall Islands 1,776,527 6.12
4 United Kingdom 1,366,318 4.71
5 Bahamas 1,325,700 4.57
6 Singapore 1,289,838 4.45
7 Malta 1,087,966 3.75
8 Greece 1,082,943 3.73
9 China 1,038,805 3.58
10 Japan 964,989 3.33
Total 18,277,661 63.01
This table is taken from, IMO, International Maritime Organization Financial Statements Year
Ended 31.12.2012, http://www.imo.org/Documents/IMO_Financial_Statements_for_the_year-
ended_31_12_2012.pdf , last accessed on 14 June 2014

Table 2.2 IMO top ten contributors to donor revenue in 2012

Amount
GBP

% of total donor
revenue Rank Donor

1 European Commission 2,211,431 27.44

2 Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

(NORAD)

740,773 9.19

3 Government of Republic of Korea 733,099 9.10

4 United Nations Development Programme

(UNDP)

644,302 7.99

5 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 531,911 6.60

6 World Bank 487,562 6.05

7 Government of Denmark 443,993 5.51

8 Korea International Cooperation Agency

(KOICA)

377,999 4.69

9 Government of the United States of America 327,368 4.06
10 Government of Japan 229,980 2.85
Total 6,728,418 83.48
This table is taken from, IMO, International Maritime Organization Financial Statements Year
Ended 31.12.2012, http://www.imo.org/Documents/IMO_Financial_Statements_for_the_year-
ended_31_12_2012.pdf , last accessed on 14 June 2014

competent organisation for the prevention of marine pollution from ships under
UNCLOS. UNCLOS includes a number of rules of reference for the competent
organisation that created a very distinctive role for IMO in the international
law-making process by providing an indirect law-making or standard-setting
power to the organisation. 49 IMO also introduced a system called tacit acceptance

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49 Sommer ( 1996 ), p. 656.