General concern over oil pollution appears to have originated in the first decade after World War 1 when, first the United States, and then the League of Nations undertook to obtain explicit international agreement on measures to combat oil pollution.
Very few states had, in the past, sought to extend legislation regarding pollution beyond their territorial sea, and no states had, until the present, sought to apply prohibitory regulations beyond this area. It can, therefore, be said that almost all prescriptive activity has taken the form of international agreement.
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