89/106/CEE Directive (CPD)
Notifications

97/23/CE Directive (PED)

99/36/CE Directive (T-PED)

ADR/RID/IMDG Rules (ONU)

96/98/CE Directive (MED)(ONU)

89/686/CEE Directive (DPI)
Notifications

98/37/CE Directive (Macchine)

ADR/RID Regulations – Packagings for dangerous goods transportation

These regulations have been defined in New York by ONU in order to standardize the requirements for the transportation by road ( ADR ) or by rail ( RID ) of dangerous goods.
The same requirements have been accepted for the transportation by sea ( IMGD ) and the transportation by air ( ICAO ).

The products homologation has been delegated to the Ministries of Transport of the Countries that accept this regulation on the basis of tests carried out by authorized laboratories and of positive evaluations of the manufacturers’internal product control system.

Packagings for dangerous goods transportation can be made with plastics,steel or paperboard and are as follows:

1. Baskets
2. Drums
3. Boxes
4. Sacks
5. Steel bottles
6. ICB

In the case of packagings for products under pressure (steel bottles) the goods that circulate inside European Union Counties have also to be marked according to T-PED Directive (see specific chapter). 

The necessary type tests to verify the conformity of plastic, steel or paperboard packagings are linked to the need to be compatible with the aggressions of the goods to be transported and to contain the goods also in case impact, fall or long time storage in very warm or very cold rooms.
The fall tests of plastic packagings filled with simulants and cooled at -18°C are particularly selective.

Since 2000 CSI is accredited by the Luxembourg Ministry of Transport (SNCH ) either as test laboratory or as inspectorate for manufacturer’s internal production control FPC).
CSI operates in full autonomy with the manufacturers to define the necessary documents, the sampling and the factory inspective visits; on the basis of the results CSI sends to Luxembourg the documents and , relying on them, SNCH can homologate the products, assigning an international number (ONU) that is communicated worldwide to all Counties adherent to ADR/RID arrangement.
CSI is accredited by the Italian Harbour Offices as laborstory for the homologations to transportation by sea.   

INFO AND ESTIMATES:
Please contact Dott. Gianfranco Corazza