Julie Pompe Snct

Tracking and Tracing

- Current ADR-regulations on identifying dangerous goods vehicles

- Workshop Luxembourg

- 17th March 2010

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TRANSPORT REGULATIONS

UN RECOMMANDATIONS

ORANGE BOOK

AIRSEA LAND

ROAD RAIL RIVER

ICAO-TICODE IMDG

ADR RID ADN(R)

Transport Regulations

- ADR means European Agreement concerning

the international carriage of dangerous goods

by road

- It is developed by the UN-ECE and updated every odd year (currently 2009-version)

- There are 46 signatory countries = EU-27

- + 19 others from Albania to Turkey (since 22.02.2010) and Ukraine

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Spotting DG-vehicles

DG-vehicles have to be placarded and marked for identification purposes of the nature of the cargo loaded

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DG-vehicles have to be placarded and marked for identification purposes of the nature of the cargo loaded

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Placarding

- Means that a DG-vehicle must be identified by placards of 250 x 250 mm which correspond to the label(s) required for the DG carried

- Placards to be affixed to each side and at the rear of the vehicle, and to all four sides of containers

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Marking

- Means that a DG-vehicle /container must carry orange-coloured plates/self-adhesive sheets, with the hazard identification number and the four-digit UN number for the dangerous good loaded

- Size is 300 x 400 mm, black border is 15 mm, numbers are 100 mm high

- Plates must resist a fire of 15 minutes, and stay affixed even if vehicle rolls over

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BUT…..

- The above is valid only for tank and bulk vehicles / containers

- The marking & placarding are very often affixed in slightly different places from one vehicle to another

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- With only packages or mixed loads of packages containing different dangerous goods, the vehicle just needs to carry two orange-coloured ‘empty’ plates at the front and at the back

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AND…..

The above with placarding for Class 1 (explosives) and Class 7 (radioactive goods) packages, affixed to each side and at the rear

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- > 01.01.2011- orange-coloured ‘empty’ plates (or black-on-white ‘LTD QTY’ plates) at the front and at the back will also apply to LQ > 8 t on vehicles / in containers > 12 t

- This kind of transport will have been travelling ‘incognito’ until then

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One DG: Several DG:

or

LQ = Limited Quantities• borderline ≥ 2 mm• side length ≥ 10 cm• numbers ≥ 6 mm


- From the outside, the only thing that is known is that there is/are DG on board the vehicle, but not what it is (no hazard identification code), nor where onboard the vehicle it is loaded (rear? middle? front? side? top? bottom?)

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- Not all vehicles carrying DG carry some sign of identification as required!

- The chances of a roadside check are higher with placarding and/or marking

- Some vehicles carry DG but ‘forget’ to open the required plates, until, of course, they are checked, and the truth is revealed!

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PLUS…..

- The ADR allows for exemptions too

- Then it is not necessary for the vehicle to carry any signs of having DG on board at all (up to 1.000 l/kg) = no orange plates, no placarding

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AND…..

- It is not imperative for the driver to have an ADR-training certificate nor special knowledge of the dangers from his cargo, which measures to take and when to do so

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HCDG

- High-consequence dangerous goods are those which have the potential for misuse in a terrorist incident and which may, as a result, produce serious consequences such as mass casualties or mass destruction

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HCDG

- ADR stipulates the use of ‘devices, equipment or arrangements to prevent the theft of the vehicle carrying HCDG and its cargo’(1.10.3.3 and table of HCDG 1.10.5),

- and encourages the use of transport telemetry or other tracking methods and devices for monitoring HCDG-transports

- These must be operational and effective at all times

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BUT…..

- So far fitting such equipment is, if at all, undertaken by each company individually

- Tracking & tracing of DG-vehicles remains solidified at an insular rather than a global level

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Documenting DG-transports

- International transport document (CMR) or simple transport document for national transport

- New format for ‘Instructions in writing’ since July 1st 2009, no longer material-related

- Onus of correct classification falls back on transport document entirely

- Hazard ID-code is very often no longer indicated anywhere

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Tunnel restrictions for DG-vehicles

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- Obligatory since January 1st, 2010 (with indication of alternative routing)

- Tunnel restriction code must be mentioned on transport document since July 1st, 2009

- Further information on

http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/adr/country-info_e.htm

- Not applicable to ADR-exemptions

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� A No restrictions (no sign at tunnel entrance)

� B Passage for bidden through tunnels of catgeories B, C, D and E

(very high risk of explosion)

� C As B plus (high) risk of explosion or large toxic release

� D As C plus risk of large fire

� E Restrictions for all dangerous goods other than

UN 2919, 3291, 3331, 3359 and 3373

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Tunnel restrictions for DG-vehicles� ... Tunnel restriction code ... Tunnel restriction code

for C, D and E (with conditions) for B, C, D and E (with conditions)

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PLEASE….

bear in mind that tracking and tracing can also play a major role in other types of transport, such as

- high-value cargo (e.g. industrial moulds; new ‘collections’ of tyres, clothes, shoes; express goods; priceless pieces of art and musical instruments)

- perishable and/or temperature-controlled goods (e.g. flowers, deep-frozen foods)

- waste (dangerous or not, such as copper)

- livestock > 8 hours

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AND (almost) FINALLY….

- in the case of transport of fumigated goods (e.g. fruit, exotic wood, wheat, flowers)

where the entire vehicle/container/tank is UN 3359 ‘Fumigated Unit’ Class 9 and should be documented and labelled as such

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THANK YOU !

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Tracking and Tracing

� Contact information:

- Julie POMPE, DGSA

Société Nationale de Contrôle Technique

Tel. ++352-357214-282

Fax ++352-357214-231

Email [email protected]

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