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Look both ways
ROAD/RAIL Caught between the UN experts on the one hand and the modal plenary bodies on the other, the joint meeting of RID/ADR/ADN experts has to consider both the broader and more specific impact of...
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Smoke-filled rooms
RAIL In future, much of the work of the RID experts will be carried out by working groups. In the meantime, the Committee of Experts managed to agree to final changes for the 2013 text while deferring...
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Track back
RAIL Although the applicability of the RID Regulations is broadening, operators and users still need to interface with a different legal structure to the east, in both regulatory and technical areas....
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High on the hog
CONFERENCE REVIEW Hold a regulatory update seminar in the middle of an odd-numbered year and what have you got: air rules already changed, maritime in the middle of a handover, and Europe’s new road...
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Breaking the code
MULTIMODAL In preparation for the next round of regulatory changes in 2015, Europe’s surface transport experts have been busy going through the current text to see where improvements can be made....
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Four wheels or more
ROAD Europe’s road experts have just realised that trucks can be fuelled by gas as well as diesel; quite what this will mean for construction standards is anyone’s guess but as ADR is being applied...
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No stone unturned
MULTIMODAL Europe’s modal experts undertook a mammoth meeting in September last year, making a significant number of amendments to the texts of RID, ADR and ADN that will enter into force in 2015....
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Last chance to see
CONFERENCE REPORT Dangerous goods experts from the UK, Ireland and, increasingly, further afield flock annually to the once-a-year opportunity provided by the VCA update seminar to hear directly from...
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The shape of things to come
The autumn 2015 session of the Joint Meeting of RID/ADR/ADN Experts had plenty to discuss and made headway on the 2017 textsread more
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Road markings
The November 2015 session of WP15 dealt with most of the proposals to amend ADR for 2017, although there will likely be some stragglersread more
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