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There are no specific rules on liability or compensation of damage relating to GMO crops. Obviously, there have been some proposals originating from stakeholders that liability issues should indeed be dealt with and that some compensation scheme should be put in place.1 No political action has been taken until now. Therefore, the common rules of private tort law apply.
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See Coëxistentie_Primaire Sector — Rapportage van de tijdelijke commissie onder voor-zitters-chapvan J. van Dijk; commissiepartijen: Biologica, LTO Nederland, Plantum NL en Platform Aarde Boer Consument, The Hague, November 2004.
Hoge Raad (HR) 20. 3. 1970, Nederlandse Jurisprudentie (NJ) 1970, 251, Waterwingebied.
See generally W.H. van Boom/ C.E. du Perron, The Netherlands, in: B.A. Koch/ H. Koziol (eds.), Unification of Tort Law: Strict Liability (2002) 227–255.
See Notitie_Ministerie van Justifie—Aansprakelijkheid voor schade in het kader van coëxistentie van gg-gewassen en conventionele en biologische gewassen, in: Coëxistentie Primaire Sector — Rapportage van de tijdelijke commissie onder voor-zitterschap van J. van Dijk; commissiepartijen: Biologica, LTO Nederland, Plantum NL en Platform Aarde Boer Consument, The Hague, November 2004, B57.
See also, Notitie Ministerie van Justifie (supra fn. 5) B57 ff.
See HR 18-4-1986, NJ 1986, no. 567. For further details, see, e.g., W.H. van Boom, Pure economic loss in the Netherlands — the case study, in: M. Bussani/ V. Palmer (eds.), Pure Economic Loss in Europe (2003) 171–522 with further references.
On art. 6:101 Civil Code, see, e.g., W.H. van Boom, Contributory Negligence under Dutch Law, in: U. Magnus/ M. MartÃn-Casals (eds.), Unification of Tort Law: Contributory Negligence (2004) 129–148.
See A.S. Hartkamp, Verbintenissenrecht; deel I — De verbintenis in het algemeen [Mr. C. Asser’s handleiding tot de beoefening van het Nederlands Burgerlijk recht] (11th ed. 2000) no. 494.
Besluit financiële zekerheid milieubeheer, in: Staatsblad 2003 no. 71, based on art. 8.15 Wet milieubeheer.
See Notitie Ministerie van Justifie (omin: Coëxistentie Primaire Sector — Rapportage van de tijdelijke commissie onder voor-zitterschap van J. van Dijk; commissiepartijen: Biologica, LTO Nederland, Plantum NL en Platform Aarde Boer Consument, The Hague, November 2004 supra fn. 5) B56 ff.
See HR 11.7. 2003, NJ 2005, no. 50.
See, generally, Wet Conflictenrecht Onrechtmatige daad (Statute on the private international law aspects of tortious liability) art. 3 subsection 1.
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Castillo, M.M., van Boom, W.H. (2008). Economic Loss Caused by GMOs in the Netherlands. In: Koch, B.A. (eds) Economic Loss Caused by Genetically Modified Organisms. Tort and Insurance Law, vol 24. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-77988-0_23
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