Amend. to Rev. 14

UN Model Regulations

                           UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods - Model Regulations
                                                            Amendments to the 14th revised edition
At its third session (14 December 2006), the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) adopted a set of amendments to the Model Regulations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, which were consolidated in documents ST/SG/AC.10/34/Add.1 and -/Corr.1.
The fifteenth revised edition of the Recommendations takes account of all these amendments which concern, inter alia, the inclusion of new provisions (e.g.: provisions for the transport of dangerous goods packed in excepted quantities and for the transport of fuel cell cartridges, packing instructions for chlorosilanes) or revision of existing provisions (e.g.: addition of new entries to the list of organic peroxides, packing instructions for gases, requirements for the construction and testing of packagings for infectious substances of category A, requirements for the construction and testing of intermediate bulk containers).
Close cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also continued and resulted in an editorial revision of the provisions concerning the transport of radioactive material.
The Committee adopted also amendments to the "Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria" (ST/SG/AC.10/34/Add.2), published as amendment 2 to the fourth revised edition of the Manual (ST/SG/AC.10/11/Rev.4/Amend.2), as well as amendments to the "Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals" (ST/SG/AC.10/34/Add.3 and -/Corr.1 ) which are reflected in the second revised edition (published as document ST/SG/AC.10/30/Rev.2)..