Major Changes In The 46th Edition Of The IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations

Freight Forwarders Permitted to Sign the Shipper's Declaration.

Effective 01 January 2005, consolidators, freight forwarders ans IATA cargo agents employed by the shipper to undertake the shipper's responsabilities may sign the Shipper's Declaration for Dangerous Goods.

New Format of IATA Shipper's Declaration for Dangerous Goods.

The sequence of information on the basic description of dangerous goods has been changed. The preferred sequence is UN number; Proper Shipping Name; Class or Division, subsidiary risk in brackets; and Packing group (if applicable). For the next two years and alternative is permitted.

UN 1717, Acetyl chloride, 3 (8), II
or
Acetyl Chloride, 3 (8), UN 1717, II

With effective date of 1 January 2007, it is expected that the only sequence permitted will be the forst one, UPS has required shippers to use the forst sequence with immediate effect.

Continued Use of Old Format Shipper's Declarations

A stock of old format Shipper's Declarations may be used, but the following steps must be taken.

• Where a subsidiary risk entry is requiredit must be placed in brackets following or below the class or division number, and
• The additional certification statement concerning air transport requirements must be added, wither after the existing certification statement or in the additional handling information box.

Air Transport Requirements

A new sub-paragraph - DGR1.3.2 (e) - Highlights the air transport specific areas within the regulations. These include appropriate closure procedures for inner and outer packagins, and the pressure differential requirements.

Other Special Provision Changes

Apart from 13 new Special Provisions there have been amendments to several others.

The List Dangerous Goods - Blue Pages

The have been about 130 changes in the blue page. Over 60 of the new entries are to provide the liquid or solid alternative proper shipping name to specific substances.

Overpack

Users of Overpack must be aware that the old marking "Inner packagings comply with prescribed specifications" is no longer required from 1st January 2005. It is replaced by the one word "Overpack". This marking is an indication that packages contained within comply with the prescribed specifications.

Sub-paragraph 7.1.4.1 requires the package use markings on inner packages to be reproduced on the outside of the package. This includes the net quantity of dangerous goods whenever the overpack contains more than one inner package.

Lables

The "Keep away from heat" label becomes mandatory on 1st January 2005 on all shipments of self-reactive substances of Division 4.1 and organic peroxides of Division 5.2. A new "Radioactive material - excepted package" label is recommended from 1st January 2005, and will become mandatory from 1st January 2007. No minimum dimensions have been set for this label.

Air Elegible Certification Statement

Effective January 1, 2005 the Shipper's Declaration for Dangerous Goods must include and air elegible certification statement for all air transport of dangerous goods. Section 8.1.6.12 of the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations, 46th edition, indicates the wording of the statement as "I declare that all of the applicable air transport requirements have been met". This statement will be required in addition to the shipper's certification for dangerous goods that has previously been required.

Shippers of Dangerous Goods by international air (or domestic air when carriers mandate the international rules) must begin adding the air eligible statement to their shipping papers on Januarry 1, 2005.
This is replacing the air eligibility mark that is no longer required be either ICAO nor IATA regulations.

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