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The Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road Regulations 2007 and Miscellaneous Provisions Regulations (S.I. No. 288 and 289 of 2007) were signed by the Minister at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on 13th June 2007.
These Regulations apply to the carriage of dangerous goods by road in tanks, bulk, packages, including the packing, loading, filling and unloading of the dangerous goods in relation to their carriage.
INSTRUCTIONS IN WRITING CHANGES IN ADR 2009
Instructions in writing must be carried by the driver, to provide advice in the event of an accident during their journey.
The 2009 revision of ADR will introduce a big change to the instructions in writing, both in terms of the content and who is responsible for supplying them.
Key changes can be summarised as:
The driver / carrier has to provide the instructions in writing
The instructions are only required in a language that the vehicle crew can understand
There will be one set of instructions to cover all dangerous goods
The complete instructions in writing text will be included in the ADR2009 text.
What does this mean now? The new instructions in writing will be introduced in ADR2009 from 1 January 2009. There will be a phase-in period where the existing format Instruction (Tremcard) can still be used. The phase-in period will run until 30 June 2009.
From 1 July 2009 the new instructions in writing will have to be used when hazardous goods are transported by road.
How do I access the new Instructions in Writing?
The new instruction in writing will be included in the 2009 revision of ADR. The contracting countries to ADR have also agreed to post translations of the new instruction to the UNECE website. Therefore when this work is complete the translated documents will be available through this website – http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/adr/adr_linguistic_e.htm.