The CSC provides for a global liability and compensation scheme that may supplement that called for under the Paris Convention, the Vienna Convention or Annex state legislation as defined by the CSC.

• Adopted: 12 September 1997
• Opened for signature: 29 September 1997
• Entered into force: 15 April 2015
• Parties: 12 (see table below)

More information on the CSC, including the text and current status, is available here.

The following is a sampling of the articles related to the CSC that have been published in the Nuclear Law Bulletin and Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law:

• The Compensation Convention: Path to a Global Regime for Dealing with Legal Liability and Compensation for Nuclear Damage, by B. McRae (NLB 61, p. 25).
• Maritime Zones and the New Provisions on Jurisdiction in the 1997 Vienna Protocol and in the 1997 Convention on Supplementary Compensation, by A. Gioia (NLB 63, p. 25).
• The Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage: Catalyst for a Global Nuclear Liability Regime, by B. McRae (NLB 79, p. 17).
• International Pooling of Operators' Funds: An Option to Increase the Amount of Financial Security to Cover Nuclear Liability?, by N. Pelzer (NLB 79, p. 37).
• Perspective on the Pros and Cons of a Pooling-type Approach to Nuclear Third Party Liability, by S. Carroll (NLB 81, p. 75).
• Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) and harmonisation of nuclear liability law within the European Union, by B. McRae (NLB 87, p. 73).
• Through the looking glass: placing India's new civil liability regime for nuclear damage in context, by R. J. Gruendel and E. Reynaers Kini (NLB 89, p. 45).
• Progress towards a global nuclear liability regime (NLB 93, p. 9).
• The Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage and participation by developing countries: A South African perspective, by D. Davies (NLB 93, p. 25).
• Entry into force of the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear damage: Opening the umbrella, by B. McRae (NLB 95, p. 7).
• Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments on civil liability for nuclear damage, by U. Magnus (NLB 106, p. 7).
• The qualification of nuclear substances and nuclear liability, by E. de Boissieu (NLB 108/109, p. 77).
• Applicability of the existing nuclear liability conventions to different types of small modular reactors currently under development, by V. Roland (NLB 110, p. 7).
• Nuclear liability in respect of Ukraine’s nuclear installations under Russian military control, by N.L.J.T. Horbach and O.F. Brown (NLB 111, p. 7).
• The modern nuclear liability regime’s concept of “environmental damage”: How national courts may apply it and what remedies they may provide for such damage, by S. Knopp Pisi (NLB 111, p. 23).
• Reciprocity principle under the nuclear third party liability convnetions (NLB 112, p. 109).
• New-build nuclear power plant contracts and nuclear third-party liability: Contractor zero liability for net zero?, by E. Wittman (NLB 113, p. 43).
• Liability and compensation for third party damage resulting from a nuclear incident, by J.A. Schwatrz (Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law, p. 409).
• Insurance of nuclear risks, by S. M. S. Reitsma and M. G. Tetley (Principles and Practice of International Nuclear Law, p. 445).

* Country with at least one nuclear power plant in operation.

(Subject to an entry into force date of 1 January 2026.)