THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE MODAL REGULATIONS COMPILATION OF SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE IAEA AND MODAL REGULATIONS

In December 1996, the United Nations Economic and Social Council’s (ECOSOC) Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods adopted a new structure for its “Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods”. These recommendations are considered to represent “Model Regulations” for all modes of transport: road, rail, air and sea. In the last few years, all the Modal Organisations changed the structure of the regulations/agreements for the transport of dangerous goods to harmonise them with the UN-“Orange Book”. In 2001, all of these amendments of the modal regulations will come into force with different transitional periods. In addition to that, for the class 7 “Radioactive Material” the IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material, 1996 Edition (Revised) No.TS-R-1, were incorporated into the new structured modal regulations. In doing that, some deviations from the IAEA-Regulations were identified.