‘Dutch Supreme Court decision did not change rules on F-35 parts’

Leon Castellanos-Jankiewicz, senior researcher at the Asser Institute for International and European Law in The Hague, says a recent Dutch Supreme Court ruling has not made any changes to the situation regarding exports of F-35 parts from the Netherlands.

The court’s ruling urged the government to review its policies on weapons exports to Israel because of the ongoing war on Gaza.

“The upshot of this decision is that arms exports from the Netherlands in respect to the F-35 programme remain frozen,” Castellanos-Jankiewicz told Al Jazeera from the German city of Frankfurt.

“The Supreme Court has not changed that decision from the lower court, and said there has to be a new risk assessment determination in order to see whether the Dutch government could continue.”

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