2009

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With effect from 1 January 2009

Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID)

• CORRIGENDUM 2
  to the printed RID edition 2009
  04.05.2009
• OTIF/RID/NOT/2009/Add.1
  03.12.2008
  Notification
  1 July 2009 edition of RID
  Texts adopted by the 46^th session of the RID Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (Hamburg, 21 – 23 October 2008) for entry into force on 1 July 2009
• CORRIGENDUM 1
  to the notification texts OTIF/RID/NOT/2009 of 27 June 2008 and
  to the printed RID edition 2008
  03.12.2008

Cover page

Table of Contents

Part 1 – General requirements
Part 2 – Classification

• Chapter 2.1 – General provisions
• Chapter 2.2 – Class specific provisions
• Chapter 2.3 – Test methods

Part 3 – Dangerous goods lists, special provisions and exemptions related to limited and excepted quantities

• Chapter 3.1 – General
• Chapter 3.2 – Dangerous goods lists
  • Chapter 3.2.1 – Table A: Dangerous goods list – Explanations
    • Table A: List of dangerous goods in UN number order
  • Chapter 3.2.2 – Table B: Alphabetical list of dangerous goods – Explanations
    • Table B: Alphabetical list of dangerous goods
• Chapter 3.3 – Special provisions applicable to certain articles or substances
• Chapter 3.4 – Dangerous goods packed in limited quantities
• Chapter 3.5 – Dangerous goods packed in excepted quantities

Part 4 – Use of packagings, intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), large packagings and tanks

• Chapter 4.1 – Use of packagings, including intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) and large packagings
• Chapter 4.2 – Use of portable tanks and UN multiple-element gas containers (MEGCs)
• Chapter 4.3 – Use of tank-wagons, demountable tanks, tank-containers and tank swap bodies with shells made of metallic materials, and battery-wagons and multiple-element gas containers (MEGCs)
• Chapter 4.4 – Use of fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) tank-containers including tank swap bodies
• Chapter 4.5 – Use of vacuum-operated waste tanks

Part 5 – Consignment procedures

Part 6 – Requirements for the construction and testing of packagings, intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), large packagings and tanks

• Chapter 6.1 – Requirements for the construction and testing of packagings
• Chapter 6.2 – Requirements for the construction and testing of pressure receptacles, aerosol dispensers, small receptacles containing gas (gas cartridges) and fuel cell cartridges containing liquefied flammable gas
• Chapter 6.3 – Requirements for the construction and testing of packagings for class 6.2 infectious substances of Category A
  
• Chapter 6.4 – Requirements for the construction, testing and approval of packages and material of class 7
• Chapter 6.5 – Requirements for the construction and testing of intermediate bulk containers (IBCs)
• Chapter 6.6 – Requirements for the construction and testing of large packagings
• Chapter 6.7 – Requirements for the design, construction, inspection and testing of portable tanks and UN multiple element gas containers (MEGCs)
• Chapter 6.8 – Requirements for the construction, equipment, type approval, inspections and tests, and marking of tank-wagons, demountable tanks and tank-containers and tank swap bodies, with shells made of metallic materials, and battery-wagons and multiple element gas containers (MEGCs)
• Chapter 6.9 – Requirements for the design, construction, equipment, type approval, testing and marking of fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) tank-containers including tank swap bodies
• Chapter 6.10 – Requirements for the construction, equipment, type approval, inspection and marking of vacuum-operated waste tanks
• Chapter 6.11 – Requirements for the design, construction, inspection and testing of bulk containers

Part 7 – Provisions concerning the conditions of carriage, loading, unloading and handling

Unofficial part of RID

• Requirements for the testing of plastics receptacles