Indemnity for Environmental Damages

Document Type : Scientific Research

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law and Social Science, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 . Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Khorasan Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

The spread of environmental hazards and damages and the inefficiency of the fault-based civil liability system in preventing and compensating such damages on the one hand and the non-mandatory nature of the general rules of civil responsibility regarding the person responsible for compensation and the conditions for claiming damages, on the other hand, leads us to agreements such as indemnity clauses that through them, it is possible to predict the responsibility of the parties to the contract and impose the responsibility of compensation on the shoulders of the party that has more control and ability to prevent the occurrence of damage and compensate for the damage and so, accelerated and facilitated more in compensating damages that occur during the execution of the contract or as a result of it. In this analytical research, we are trying to assess the feasibility and how to agree on the terms of indemnity clause against environmental damages. Considering the validity of the terms of indemnity clause in Iran's legal system and the variety of types of these terms, the type of indemnifier’s obligation based on the final acceptance of the burden of compensation for damages and indemnified exemption from proving the causal relationship between the act of indemnifier and the occurrence of damages. Agreement on indemnity clause along with the precise determination of the environmental risks included in the clause and the sanctions of its violation can be a suitable solution to reduce the uncompensated losses on the environment.

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