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Terms of use

What this free service does and does not promise, and how far liability reaches. Version 2, 17 August 2026.

What this product is intended for

BesluitBron is intended for finding and citing public decision-making records, so that a person can go to the source and read it.

Not provided for:

  • Any use by a judicial authority, or by anybody acting on its behalf, in any function, and the equivalent in alternative dispute resolution, whether or not the outcome binds.
  • Use for influencing the outcome of an election or a referendum, or the voting behaviour of natural persons.
  • Use to determine a person's entitlement to a public service or benefit.

A party to proceedings, their lawyer and their adviser are expressly WITHIN the intended purpose. The exclusion is about the judicial authority itself and those acting on its behalf, not about those appearing before it. This product supports the reading of a record and never the deciding of a case.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689

  1. A free service, no right to delivery. BesluitBron is free of charge, has no account and has no service level. No availability is undertaken. The service, a connector or a tool may be limited, changed or discontinued at any time, including without notice. Fair use is the starting point: traffic that burdens the service or a source platform may be limited or refused.
  2. No warranty of accuracy. The data comes from external platforms. No warranty is given as to accuracy, completeness or currency. The source is what counts, and checking at the source belongs before acting. Every answer states how precise it is, and that statement is the honest limit of what may be concluded from it.
  3. Not advice. Nothing on this site is legal, financial, journalistic or other professional advice. No decision, publication or procedural step rests on an answer without a check at the source.
  4. An AI assistant's answer is the assistant's. BesluitBron supplies data over MCP. A language model summarises, interprets and can invent. What a model makes of what it was given is not for the account of the foundation.
  5. The source platforms. No liability for the availability, accuracy, terms or interruptions of those platforms. BesluitBron changes nothing there: a correction runs through the party that published the document.
  6. Indirect loss excluded. Liability is excluded for indirect loss, consequential loss, lost profit, missed savings, loss or inaccuracy of data, reputational damage and third party claims.
  7. Capped at one hundred euro. Where liability is nevertheless established, it is limited to one hundred euro per event, events arising from one cause counting as one event, and to one hundred euro per user per calendar year in total.
  8. Intent. The limitations under 6 and 7 do not apply in the case of intent or deliberate recklessness of the foundation itself.
  9. Mandatory law prevails. Mandatory consumer law and other mandatory rules take precedence over these terms. A clause that cannot be upheld applies as the most far-reaching clause that can be; the remaining clauses continue to apply in full.
  10. Time limit. A claim lapses if it is not reported in writing within six months of discovery, and in any event if it is not brought within twelve months of that report.
  11. Indemnity. The user indemnifies the foundation against third party claims arising from the user's use of BesluitBron, including what the user publishes or decides on the basis of an answer.
  12. Law, court and version. Dutch law applies. Disputes are submitted to the Gelderland district court, sitting in Arnhem. These terms carry a version and a date, and that version governs the use made on that day.

Personal data

What this site records, and for how long, is set out in the privacy and cookie statement. Rights under data protection law are not limited by these terms.

Not wanting to depend on it

Clause 1 states that no availability is promised. An organisation that does not want to depend on that can run the software itself: it is licensed under the EUPL-1.2 and the source code is available on request. See Run it yourself.