Liability for errors in DIWASS – the carrier, the freight forwarder or the consignor?
In the transboundary shipment of waste, disputes over liability have so far been resolved on the basis of paper documents, where it has often been difficult to establish the source of an error as a matter of evidence. Digitisation is fundamentally changing this: every operation in the system has an author, a timestamp and a full audit trail, and the supervisory authorities can monitor the progress of the shipment in real time. Liability under DIWASS therefore requires a precise assignment of roles…

