Aerosols or aerosol dispensers means non-refillable receptacles meeting the provisions of 6.2.2 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition), made of metal, glass or plastics and containing a gas compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure, with or without a liquid, paste or powder, and fitted with a release device allowing the contents to be ejected as solid or liquid particles in suspension in a gas, as a foam, paste or powder or in a gaseous state.

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Bags means flexible packagings made of paper, plastic film, textiles, woven material, or other suitable materials.

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Barge-carrying ship means a ship specially designed and equipped to transport shipborne barges.

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Barge feeder vessel means a vessel specially designed and equipped to transport shipborne barges to or from a barge-carrying ship.

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Boxes means packagings with complete rectangular or polygonal faces made of metal, wood, plywood, reconstituted wood, fibreboard, plastics, or other suitable material. Small holes for purposes such as ease of the handling or opening of the box or to meet classification provisions are permitted as long as they do not compromise the integrity of the packaging during transport.

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Bulk packagings means cargo transport units loaded with solid dangerous goods without any intermediate form of containment.

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Cargo transport unit means a road freight vehicle, a railway freight wagon, a freight container, a road tank vehicle, a railway tank wagon or a portable tank.

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Carrier means any person, organization or Government undertaking the transport of dangerous goods by any means of transport. The term includes both carriers for hire or reward (known as common or contract carriers in some countries) and carriers on own account (known as private carriers in some countries).

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Cellular ship means a ship in which containers are loaded under desk into specially designed slots giving a permanent stowage of the container during sea transport. Containers loaded on deck in such a ship are specially stacked and secured on fittings.

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Closed cargo transport unit, with the exception of class 1, means a unit which totally encloses the contents by permanent structures. Cargo transport units with fabric sides or tops are not closed cargo transport units; for definition of class 1 cargo transport unit see 7.1.7.1.1 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Closed ro-ro cargo space means a ro-ro cargo space which is neither an open ro-ro cargo space nor a weather deck.

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Closure means a device which closes an opening in a receptacle.

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Combination packagings means a combination of packagings for transport purposes, consisting of one or more inner packagings secured in an outer packaging in accordance with 4.1.1.5 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Competent authority means any national regulatory body or authority designated or otherwise recognized as such for any purpose in connection with IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Compliance assurance means a systematic programme of measures applied by a competent authority which is aimed at ensuring that the provisions of IMDG Code (2004 Edition) concerning the transport of radioactive material are met in practice; see paragraph 1.1.3.3.2 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Composite packagings means packagings consisting of an outer packaging and an inner receptacle so constructed that the inner receptacle and the outer packaging form an integral packaging. Once assembled, it remains thereafter an integrated single unit; it is filled, stored, transported and emptied as such.

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Consignee means any person, organization or Government which is entitled to take delivery of a consignment.

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Consignment means any package or packages, or load of dangerous goods, presented by a consignor for transport.

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Consignor means any person, organization or Government which prepares a consignment for transport.

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Control temperature means the maximum temperature at which certain substances (such as organic peroxides and self-reactive and related substances) can be safely transported during a prolonged period of time.

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Conveyance means:

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1. for transport by road or rail: any vehicle,

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2. for transport by water: any ship, or any cargo space or defined deck area of a ship,

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3. for transport by air: any aircraft.

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Crates are outer packagings with incompletes surfaces.

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Defined deck area means the area, or the weather deck of a ship, or of a vehicle deck of a roll-on/roll-off ship, which is allocated for the stowage of dangerous goods.

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Drums means flat-ended or convex-ended cylindrical packagings made of metal, fibreboard, plastics, plywood or other suitable materials. This definition also includes packagings of other shapes, such as round taper-necked packagings, or pail-shaped packagings. Wooden barrels and jerricans are not covered by this definition.

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Emergency temperature means the temperature at which emergency procedures should be implemented.

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Flashpoint means the lowest temperature of a liquid at which its vapour forms an ignitable mixture with air.

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Freight container means an article of transport equipment that is of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for repeated use; specially designed to facilitate the transport of goods, by one or more modes of transport, without intermediate reloading; designed to be secured and/or readily handled, having fittings for these purposes, and approved in accordance with the International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC), 1972, as amended. The term “freight container” includes neither vehicle nor packaging. However, a freight container that is carried on a chassis is included. For freight containers for radioactive material, see 2.7.2 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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IMO type 4 tank means a road tank vehicle for the transport of dangerous goods of classes 3 to 9 and includes a semi-trailer with a permanently attached tank or a tank attached to a chassis, with at least four twist locks that account of ISO standards, (i.e. ISO International Standard 1161:1984).

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IMO type 6 tank means a road tank vehicle for the transport of non-refrigerated liquefied gases of class 2 and includes a semi-trailer with a permanently attached tank or a tank attached to a chassis which is fitted with items of service equipment and structural equipment necessary for the transport of gases.

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IMO type 8 tank means a road tank vehicle for the transport of refrigerated liquefied gases of class 2 and includes a semi-trailer with a permanently attached thermally insulated tank fitted with items of service equipment and structural equipment necessary for the transport of refrigerated liquefied gases.

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Inner packagings means packagings for which an outer packaging is required for transport.

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Inner receptacles means receptacles which require an outer packaging in order to perform their containment function.

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Intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) means rigid or flexible portable packagings, other than specified in chapter 6.1 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition), that:

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1. have a capacity of:

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A. not more than 3.0 m³ (3,000 litres) for solids and liquids of packing groups II and III;

B. not more than 1.5 m³ for solids of packing group I when packed in flexible, rigid plastics, composite, fibreboard or

??wooden IBCs;

C. not more than 3.0 m³ for solids of packing group I when packed in metal IBCs;

D. not more than 3.0 m³ for radioactive material of class 7;

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2. are designed for mechanical handling; and

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3. are resistant to the stresses produced in handling and transport, as determined by tests.

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Intermediate packagings means packagings placed between inner packagings, or articles, and an outer packaging.

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Jerricans means metal or plastics packagings of rectangular of polygonal cross-section.

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Large packagings means packagings consisting of an outer packaging which contains articles of inner packagings and which:

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1. are designed for mechanical handling; and

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2. exceed 400 kg net mass or 450l capacity but have a volume of not more than 3 m³.

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Liner means a separate tube or bag inserted into a packaging (including IBCs and large packagings), but not forming an integral part of it, including the closures of its openings.

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Liquids means, unless there is an explicit or implicit indication to the contrary, dangerous goods with a melting point or initial melting point of 20 ℃ or lower at a pressure of 101.3 kPa. A viscous substance for which a specific melting point cannot be determined should be subjected to the ASTM D 4359-90 test, or to the test for determining fluidity (penetrometer test) prescribed in Appendix A.3 of Annex A of the European Agreement concerning the International Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) with the modifications that the penetrometer should conform to ISO 2137:1985 and that the test should be used for viscous substances of any class.

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Long international voyage means an international voyage that is not a short international voyage.

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Manual of Tests and Criteria means the United Nations publication entitled “Recommendations of the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria” as amended.

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Maximum capacity as used in 6.1.4 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition) means the maximum inner volume of receptacles or packagings expressed in litres.

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Maximum net mass as used in 6.1.4 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition) means the maximum net mass of contents in a single packaging or maximum combined mass of inner packagings and the contents thereof and is expressed in kilograms.

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Open cargo transport unit means a unit which is not a closed cargo transport unit.

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Open ro-ro cargo space means a ro-ro cargo space either opens at both ends, or opens at one end and provided with adequate natural ventilation effective over its entire length through permanent openings in the side plating or deckhead to the satisfaction of the Administration.

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Outer packaging means the outer protection of a composite or combination packaging together with any absorbent materials, cushioning and any other components necessary to contain and protect inner receptacles or inner packagings.

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Overpack means an enclosure used by a single consignor to contain one or more packagings and to form one unit for the convenience of handling and stowage during transport. Examples of overpacks are a number of packages either:

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1. placed or stacked on to a load board, such as a pallet, and secured by strapping, shring-wrapping, stretch-wrapping,

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2. placed in a protective outer packaging, such as a box or crate.

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Overstowed means that a package or container is directly stowed on top of another.

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Packages means the complete product of the packing operation, consisting of the packaging and its contents prepared for transport. For packages for radioactive material, see 2.7.2 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Packaging means receptacles and any other components or materials necessary for the receptacle to perform its containment function. For packagings for radioactive material, see 2.7.2 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Quality assurance means a systematic programme of controls and inspections applied by any organization or body which is aimed at providing adequate confidence that the standard of safety prescribed in IMDG Code (2004 Edition) is achieved in practice. For radioactive material, see 1.1.3.3.1 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Reconditioned packagings include:

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1. metal drums that:

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A. are cleaned to original materials of construction, with all former contents, internal and external corrosion, and external

??coatings and labels removed;

B. are restored to original shape and contour, with chimes (if any) straightened and sealed, and all non-integral gaskets

??replaced; and

C. are inspected after cleaning but before painting, with rejection of packagings with visible pitting, significant reduction in

??material thickness, metal fatigue, damaged threads or closures, or other significant defects;

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2. plastic drums and jerricans that:

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A. are cleaned to original materials of construction, with all former contents, external coatings and labels removed;

B. have all non-integral gaskets replaced; and

C. are inspected after cleaning, with rejection of packagings with visible damage such as tears, creases or cracks, or

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Recycled plastics material means material recovered from used industrial packagings that has been cleaned and prepared for processing into new packagings. The specific properties of the recycled material used for production of new packagings should be assured and documented regularly as part of a quality assurance programme recognized by the competent authority. The quality assurance programme should include a record of proper pre-sorting and verification that each batch of recycled plastics material has the proper melt flow rate, density, and tensile yield strength, consistent with that of the design type manufactured from such recycled material. This necessarily includes knowledge about the packaging material from which the recycled plastics have been derived, as well as awareness of the prior contents of those packagings if those prior contents might reduce the capability of new packagings produced using that material. In addition, the packaging manufacturer's quality assurance programme under 6.1.1.4 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition) should include performance of the mechanical design type test in 6.1.5 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition) on packagings manufactured from each batch of recycled plastics material. In this testing, stacking performance may be verified by appropriate dynamic compression testing rather than static load testing.

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Remanufactured packagings include:

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1. metal drums:

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A. are produced as a UN type from a non-UN type;

B. are converted from one UN type to another UN type; or

C. undergo the replacement of integral structural components (such as non-removable heads); or

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2. plastic drums that:

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A. are converted form one UN type to another UN type (such as 1H1 to1H2); or

B. undergo the replacement or integral structural components.

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Remanufactured drums are subject to the same provisions of IMDG Code (2004 Edition) that apply to a new drum of the same type.

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Re-used packagings means packagings to be refilled which have been examined and found free of defects affecting the ability to withstand the performance tests; the term includes those which are refilled with the same or similar compatible contents and are transported within distribution chains controlled by the consignor of the product.

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Road tank vehicle means a vehicle equipped with a tank with a capacity of more than 450 litres, fitted with pressure-relief devices. The tank of a road tank vehicle is attached to the vehicle during normal operations of filling, discharge and transport and is neither filled nor discharged on board. A road tank vehicle is driven on board on its own wheels and is fitted with permanent tie-down attachments for securement on board the ship. Road tank vehicles should comply with the provisions of chapter 6.8 of IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Ro-ro cargo space means spaces not normally subdivided in any way and extending to either a substantial length or the entire length of the ship in which goods (packaged or in bulk, in or on rail or road cars, vehicles (including road or rail tankers), trailers, containers, pallets, demountable tanks or in or on similar stowage units or other receptacles) can be loaded and unloaded normally in a horizontal direction.

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Ro-ro ship (roll-on/roll-off ship) means a ship which has one or more decks, either closed or open, not normally subdivided in any way and generally running the entire length of the ship, carrying goods which are normally loaded and unloaded in a horizontal direction.

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Salvage packagings means special packagings conforming to the applicable provisions of IMDG Code (2004 Edition) into which damaged, defective or leaking dangerous goods packages, or dangerous goods that have spilled or leaked are placed, for the purposes of transport, recovery or disposal.

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Self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) means the lowest temperature at which self-accelerating decomposition may occur for a substance in the packaging as used in transport. The self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) should be determined in accordance with the latest version of the United Nations Manual of Tests and Criteria.

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Shipborne barge or barge means an independent, non-self propelled vessel, specially designed and equipped to be lifted in a loaded condition and stowed aboard a barge-carrying ship or barge feeder vessel.

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Shipment means the specific movement of a consignment from origin to destination.

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Shipper, for the purpose of IMDG Code (2004 Edition), has the same meaning as consignor.

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Short international voyage means an international voyage in the course of which a ship is not more than 200 miles from a port or place in which the passengers and crew could be placed in safety. Neither the distance between the last port of call in the country in which the voyage begins and final port of destination nor the return voyage should exceed 600 miles. The final port of destination is the last port of call in the scheduled voyage at which the ship commences its return voyage to the country in which the voyage began.

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Sift-proof packagings are packagings impermeable to dry contents, including fine solid material produced during transport.

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Solid bulk cargo means any material, other than liquid or gas, consisting of a combination of particles, granules or any lager pieces of material, generally uniform in composition, which is loaded directly into the cargo spaces of a ship without any intermediate form of containment (this includes a material loaded in a barge o a barge-carrying ship).

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Solids are dangerous goods, other than gases, that do not meet the definition of liquids in IMDG Code (2004 Edition).

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Special category space means an enclosed space, above or below deck, intended for the transport of motor vehicles with fuel in their tanks of their own propulsion, into and from which such vehicles can be driven and to which passengers have access.

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Tank means a portable tank (including a tank-container), a road tank vehicle, a rail tank wagon or a receptacle with a capacity of not less than 450 litres to contain solids, liquids, or liquefied gases.

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Transboundary movement of wastes means any shipment of wastes from an area under the national jurisdiction of one country to or through an area under the national jurisdiction of any country, or to or through an area not under the national jurisdiction of any country, provided at least two countries are concerned by the movement.

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Unit load means that a number of packages are either:

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1. placed or stacked on and secured by strapping, shrink-wrapping, or other suitable means to a load board, such as a

??pallet;

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2. placed in a protective outer enclosure, such as a pallet box;

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3. Permanently secured together in a sling.

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Vehicle means a road vehicle (including an articulated vehicle, i.e. a tractor and semi-trailer combination) or railroad car or railway wagon. Each trailer should be considered as separate vehicle.

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Wastes means substances, solutions, mixtures, or articles containing or contaminated with one or more constituents which are subject to the provisions of IMDG Code (2004 Edition) and for which no direct use is envisaged but which are transported for dumping, incineration, or other methods of disposal.

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Water-reactive means a substance which, in contact with water, emits flammable gas.

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Weather deck means a deck which is completely exposed to the weather from above and from at least two sides.

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Wooden barrels means packagings made of natural wood, of round cross-section, having convex walls, consisting of stave and heads and fitted with hoops.

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