When high-value goods are lost, the invoice amount does not necessarily correspond to the compensation owed by the carrier.<\/p>\n
For international road carriage, Article 23 of the CMR Convention<\/a> provides, in the event of total or partial loss, for a limit of 8.33 Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) per kilogram of gross weight lost<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The SDR is a unit of account defined by the International Monetary Fund. Its value fluctuates: compensation therefore requires determining the weight actually lost and converting the amount into the applicable currency.<\/p>\n This rule can produce substantial differences for lightweight but expensive goods, such as electronics, components, luxury products, raw materials or specialist equipment.<\/p>\n For damage, a different mechanism applies. Article 25 of the CMR<\/a> provides for compensation reflecting the reduction in the goods\u2019 value, itself subject to the Convention\u2019s limits.<\/p>\n The 8.33 SDR limit should not, however, be applied mechanically. A declaration of value<\/a> or a declaration of special interest in delivery can change the applicable limits.<\/p>\n Finally, Article 29 of the CMR<\/a> deprives the carrier of the benefit of liability limits where the damage results from wilful misconduct or fault regarded as equivalent to wilful misconduct. Under French law, Article L. 133-8 of the French Commercial Code<\/a> uses the standard of inexcusable fault under French law<\/a>.<\/p>\n Compensation can therefore be calculated only after the applicable regime, the precise nature of the damage and the circumstances in which it occurred have been determined.<\/p>\n Does the 8.33 SDR limit actually apply to the incident, or is there a basis for disapplying or increasing it?<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In international road transport, the commercial value of the cargo and the compensation payable by the carrier may differ significantly.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-droit-des-transports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3244,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abdennour-avocat.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Implications for the claim<\/h2>\n