1. Concluding observations of the Human Right Committee: Netherlands. Seventy-second session, 20/07/01, CCPR/CO/72/NET.
2. The studies of Van der Maas and Van der Wal revealed that physicians are still reluctant to report such cases to the judicial authorities. See van der Heide A, van der Maas PJ, van der Wal et al G. Medical end-of-life decisions made for neonates and infants in the Netherlands. Lancet 1997;350(9073):251-255
3. Vrakking AM, van der Heide A, Arts et al WF. Medical end-of-life decisions for children in the Netherlands. Archives Pediatrics Adolescent Med 2005;159(9):802-809. This conclusion was confirmed in van de Vathorst S c.s. Evaluatie Regeling deskundigen commissie late zwangerschapsafbreking in een categorie-2 geval en levensbeëindiging bij pasgeborenen. Den Haag: ZonMw, 2013, pp. 102-4.
4. See Fourth Periodic Report of the Kingdom of the Netherlands concerning the Implementation of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (October 2006–December 2012), 2013, Annex blg-266402 of a Letter on 28th November 2013 (kst-26150–134) to the Second Chamber of Dutch Parliament. On the draft of this Report, see Annex of Parliamentary Papers II 2011–2012, 26150, nr. 123.
5. An international legal perspective on the matter is presented in Dorscheidt JHHM. Legal aspects of end-of-life decisions in neonatology. In: Roy GB, editor. Legal and Forensic medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp. 1175–200.