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ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/31/Add.1

26 April 1999

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COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON THE TRANSPORT

OF DANGEROUS GOODS

Sub-Committee of Experts on the

Transport of Dangerous Goods

(5-16 July 1999)

PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR THE SIXTEENTH SESSION

Addendum 1

List of documents and annotations

.

1.	ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/31 and -/Add.1 (Secretariat)	Provisional agenda, list of documents and annotations

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/31/Add.2 (Secretariat)	Provisional timetable

Background documents (Secretariat):

ST/SG/AC.10/25 and -/Add.1 to -/Add.4	Report of the Committee on its twentieth session (Geneva, 7-16 December 1998)

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2.	DEVELOPMENT OF PROVISIONS FOR THE TRANSPORT OF GASES

(a)	Gas cylinders and other gas receptacles

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/24 (EIGA)	Provisions for gas receptacles

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/23 (FEA)	Leakproofness test for aerosols and small receptacles for gases

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/26 (United Kingdom)	Amendments to special provisions 63

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/35 (Canada)	Provisions for gas receptacles and gas cylinders

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/50 (ISO)	Work of ISO TC58 (gas cylinders)

(b)	Multiple element gas containers (MEGCs)

Background document

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/30/Add.1	Report of the Working Group on tanks for non-refrigerated gases with a critical temperature below 65 C (meeting during the fifteenth session of the Sub-Committee, Geneva, 29 June-2 July 1998)

NOTE: At its fifteenth session, the Sub-Committee considered that it would not be possible to reach a final conclusion on MEGCs at the Committee's twentieth session because ISO work on standards for gas cylinders had not yet been completed. Therefore it was agreed to continue the work in the biennium 1999-2000.

New document:

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/24 (EIGA)

3.	TRANSPORT IN BULK IN PORTABLE TANKS AND FREIGHT CONTAINERS

(a)	Miscellaneous draft amendments to Chapters 4.2 and 6.6

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/3 (Argentina)

(b)	New provisions for the transport of solid substances in tanks

This item was included in the work programme of the Committee following a proposal by the Expert from Germany at the last session of the Committee (UN/CETDG/20/INF.42).

No proposal has yet been submitted for this session.

(c)	New provisions for the transport of solid substances in bulk in freight containers

This item was included in the work programme of the Committee following a proposal by the Expert from Germany at the last session of the Committee (UN/CETDG/20/INF.35).

No proposal has yet been submitted for this session.

4.	TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS DOCUMENTATION

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1997/58 (CEPE)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1998/54 (CEPE)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1998/20 (United Kingdom)	Chapter 5.4

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/6 (India)	Documentation for wastes

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/33 (Canada)	Subsidiary risks

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/36 (FIATA)	Establishment of a working group

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/14 (ICAO)	Waste dangerous goods

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/37 (CEPE)	Information

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/39 (Canada)	Subsidiary risks

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/42 (Austria)	Addition of the word "stabilized" or "inhibited" to the proper shipping name

5.	MISCELLANEOUS DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO THE MODEL REGULATIONS ON THE TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS

(a)	Listing and classification

(i)	General

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/7 (United States of America)	Dangerous goods in machinery or apparatus

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/8 (United States of America)	UN 2030, Hydrazine aqueous solutions

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/6 (Germany)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/7 (United States

of America)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/1 (IMO)	Miscellaneous proposals

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/10 (ICAO)	UN 3166

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/11 (ICAO)	UN 2680

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/15 (ICAO)	Miscellaneous proposals

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/18 (United States	Refrigerating machine components

of America)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/30 (Germany)	New entry for solvent free acetylene

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/44 (United States	Classification of silicon tetratrochloride

of America)	and chlorosilanes

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/48 (United States	Methyl bromide with up to 2% chloropicrin

of America)

(ii)	Division 5.1 and related entries

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/32 (Canada)	Classification of ammonium nitrate fertilizers

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/40 (EFMA)

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/45 (France)	Ammonium nitrate

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/34 (Canada)	based emulsions

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/47 (Norway)

5.	MISCELLANEOUS DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO THE MODEL REGULATIONS ON THE TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS (cont'd)

(b)	Lithium batteries

Background documents:

ST/SG/AC.10/25/Add.1	Report of the Committee on its

ST/SG/AC.10/25, paras. 79-80	20th session

New documents

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/8 (South Africa)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/29 (Japan)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/36 (Canada)

(c)	Chapter 3.4 (Limited quantities)

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/12 (CEFIC)	Consumer products and pharmaceuticals

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/16 (AISE)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/17 (United States of America)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/38 (Japan)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/41 (United Kingdom)

(d)	Packagings

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/5 (India)	Testing and shipping of IBCs

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/27 (South Africa)	Colour coding for drums

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/3 (Argentina)	Testing and shipping of packagings

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/9 (South Africa)	Date marking on IBCs

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/12 (ICAO)	Salvage packagings

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/13 (ICAO)	Specification marking

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/15 (ICAO)	Miscellaneous

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/20 (United Kingdom)	"W" marking for large packagings

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/22 (Spain)	Amendment to 6.1.4.1.1

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/28 (ICPP)	Pressure-relief devices for IBCs

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/32 (ICIBCA)	Vapour pressure limitations

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/33 (ICIBCA)	Editorial changes to Chapter 6.5

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/42 (Italy)	Reconditioned packagings

(e)	Tanks

Proposals concerning this sub-item have been grouped under item 3(a) or other appropriate items.

(f)	Infectious substances

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/47 (Germany)	Classification of diagnostic specimens

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/48 (Germany)	Packing of diagnostic specimens

NOTE: Copies of European standard EN 829 were distributed during the Committee's 20th session under the symbol UN/CETDG/20/INF.7.

An information paper concerning wastes from health care is expected from WHO (see also UN/CETDG/20/INF.14, distributed during the Committee's 20th session).

5.	MISCELLANEOUS DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO THE MODEL REGULATIONS ON THE TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS (cont'd)

(g)	Toxic by inhalation substances

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1998/26 (United States	Consignment requirements

of America)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1998/27 "	Packing requirements

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1998/28 "	Portable tanks requirements

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1998/29 "	Definition and list

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/49 "

(h)	Segregation

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1997/89 (United States

of America)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/43 (Netherlands)

(i)	Organic peroxides/Self-reactive substances

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1998/56 (Finland)	Peroxyacetic acid in IBCs and tanks

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/56 (Finland)

ST/SG/AC.10/1998/13 (CEFIC)	List of self-reactive substances

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/21 (CEFIC)

(j)	Explosives

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/4 (Sweden)	Airbag inflators, air bag modules, seat-

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/5 (Sweden)	belt pretensioners

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/19 (Norway)	Mixed transport of goods of Class 1 with other dangerous goods

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/45 (United States	Packing instructions for Class 1

of America)

6.	DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO THE MANUAL OF TESTS AND CRITERIA

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/2 (Russian Federation)	Determination of sensibility of powdered explosives under vibration influence

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/31 (Germany/Canada)	1.4S classification

7.	GLOBAL HARMONIZATION OF SYSTEMS OF CLASSIFICATION AND LABELLING OF CHEMICALS

(a)	General

ST/SG/AC.10/25, paras. 108-131 and Annex 6	Report of the Committee on its 20th session

The Sub-Committee will be informed of the latest developments with respect to the activities of ILO, OECD and UNEP, and in particular of the outcome of the June session of the Coordinating Group for the Harmonization of Chemical Classification Systems (Dublin, 21-22 June 1999).

(b)	Health hazards and hazards to the environment

(i)	Health hazards

The Committee agreed that the Sub-Committee should consider adapting the existing criteria for toxic substances to those proposed by OECD in the context of global harmonization (ST/SG/AC.10/25, para. 118).

No proposal has yet been submitted in that respect.

(For the criteria proposed by OECD, see also informal document UN/CETDG/20/INF.20 distributed during the Committee's 20th session.)

(ii)	Hazards to the environment

Background documents

ST/SG/AC.10/R.473 (Germany)	Criteria for environmentally hazardous substances

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/R.635 (Secretariat)	Report of the informal working group on environmentally hazardous substances

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/R.661 (Argentina)	Criteria for environmentally hazardous substances

(comments on ST/SG/AC.10/R.473)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/R.664 (United Kingdom)	Environmentally hazardous substances

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/R.707 (Argentina)	Environmentally hazardous substances (comments on ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/R.664)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/R.708 (Netherlands)	Harmonized criteria for environmentally hazardous substances

Informal document: UN/CETDG/20/INF.20	(Criteria developed by OECD; distributed during the Committee's 20th session)

New documents:

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/27 (United Kingdom)

ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/1999/46 (United States

of America)

7.	GLOBAL HARMONIZATION OF SYSTEMS OF CLASSIFICATION AND LABELLING OF CHEMICALS (cont'd)

(c)	Physical hazards

The Committee at its 20th session approved the proposals (ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/28/Add.3) prepared by the UN/ILO Working Group on physical hazards (see ST/SG/AC.10/25, para. 121).

For proposals concerning the flammability of aerosols, the Committee agreed that the ILO/UN Working Group should meet during the Sub-Committee's session in December 1999 to finalize the criteria.

(d)	Hazard communication

The Sub-Committee will be informed of the outcome of the June session of the ILO Working Group for the Harmonization of Chemical Hazard Communication (Dublin, 23-25 June 1999).

8.	OTHER BUSINESS

9.	ADOPTION OF THE REPORT

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