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To identify significant issues impacting on risk and liability for the consulting engineering industry and formulate strategies to address these and, in particular:
- To compile the liability & insurance requirements and insurance delivery in the member states and draw recommendations for the Member Associations.
- To monitor and influence where necessary EU legislation and proposals impacting on Member Associations.
- To develop dialogue and exchange of information with European wide insurance companies and other stakeholders for the purpose of addressing issues of common interest.
This Committee will liaise and coordinate with the Risk and Liability Committee of FIDIC.
SCOPE OF WORK – 2009
Conditions impacting on risk and liability: primarily perceived as national issues
- Developing a fact-finding study on the diversity of national liability conditions and insurance practices to demonstrate the complexity and workings of the European engineering consultancy, and to provide guidance on cross-border services
- Developing policy on capped liability and joint & several liability
- Developing recommendations for contract conditions (core matters relating to liability and insurance)
- Compiling an overview of insurance scheme / insurance related services, provided by the national associations
- Exchanging information and promotion of best practice among national associations
Chair's Report 2009 (PDF)
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