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Legislation currently in force provides no special liability
regime for financial supervisors. Their liability is assessed on
the basis of the general liability rules of the Dutch Civil Code.
The government believes that for the Dutch supervisors, the Dutch
Central Bank ("DNB") and the Netherlands
Authority of the Financial Markets
("AFM"), to duly carry out their
supervisory roles, an explicit statutory limitation of liability is
needed. A bill to that effect was submitted to parliament on 3
November 2011. Pursuant to the bill, the law will be amended so as
to limit any liability to wilful misconduct and gross
negligence.
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