Exemptions related to the carriage of electric energy storage and production systems

The provisions laid down in ADR do not apply to electric energy storage and production systems
(e.g., lithium batteries, electric capacitors, asymmetric capacitors, metal hydride storage systems and
fuel cells):
(a) installed in a vehicle, performing a transport operation and destined for its propulsion or for the
operation of any of its equipment;
(b) contained in equipment for the operation of this equipment used or intended for use during
carriage (e.g. a laptop).

(Reserved)

Exemptions related to dangerous goods used as a coolant or conditioner during carriage

When used in vehicles or containers for cooling or conditioning purposes, dangerous goods that are
only asphyxiant (which dilute or replace the oxygen normally in the atmosphere) are only subject to
the provisions of section 5.5.3.

Exemptions related to the carriage of lamps containing dangerous goods

The following lamps are not subject to ADR provided that they do not contain radioactive material
and do not contain mercury in quantities above those specified in special provision 366 of
Chapter 3.3:
(a) Lamps that are collected directly from individuals and households when carried to a collection
or recycling facility;
NOTE: This also includes lamps brought by individuals to a first collection point, and then
carried to another collection point, intermediate processing or recycling facility.
(b) Lamps each containing not more than 1 g of dangerous goods and packaged so that there is not
more than 30 g of dangerous goods per package, provided that:
(i) the lamps are manufactured according to a certified quality management system;
NOTE: ISO 9001 may be used for this purpose.
and
(ii) each lamp is either individually packed in inner packagings, separated by dividers, or
surrounded with cushioning material to protect the lamps and packed into strong outer
packagings meeting the general provisions of 4.1.1.1 and capable of passing a 1.2 m
drop test;
(c) Used, damaged or defective lamps each containing not more than 1 g of dangerous goods with
not more than 30 g of dangerous goods per package when carried from a collection or
recycling facility. The lamps shall be packed in strong outer packagings sufficient for
preventing release of the contents under normal conditions of carriage meeting the general
provisions of 4.1.1.1 and that are capable of passing a drop test of not less than 1.2 m;
(d) Lamps containing only gases of Groups A and O (according to 2.2.2.1) provided they are
packaged so that the projectile effects of any rupture of the lamp will be contained within the
package.
NOTE: Lamps containing radioactive material are addressed in 2.2.7.2.2.2 (b).

 

Applicability of other regulations

(Reserved)

Carriage in a transport chain including maritime or air carriage

Packages, containers, portable tanks, tank-containers and MEGCs, which do not entirely meet the
requirements for packing, mixed packing, marking, labelling of packages or placarding and orange
plate marking, of ADR, but are in conformity with the requirements of the IMDG Code or the ICAO
Technical Instructions shall be accepted for carriage in a transport chain including maritime or air
carriage subject to the following conditions:
(a) If the packages are not marked and labelled in accordance with ADR, they shall bear marks
and danger labels in accordance with the requirements of the IMDG Code or the ICAO
Technical Instructions;
(b) The requirements of the IMDG Code or the ICAO Technical Instructions shall be applicable to
mixed packing within a package;
(c) For carriage in a transport chain including maritime carriage, if the containers, portable tanks,
tank-containers or MEGCs are not marked and placarded in accordance with Chapter 5.3 of
this Annex, they shall be marked and placarded in accordance with Chapter 5.3 of the IMDG
Code. In such case, only 5.3.2.1.1 of this Annex is applicable to the marking of the vehicle
itself. For empty, uncleaned portable tanks, tank-containers and MEGCs, this requirement shall
apply up to and including the subsequent transfer to a cleaning station.
This derogation does not apply in the case of goods classified as dangerous goods in classes 1 to 9 of
ADR and considered as non-dangerous goods according to the applicable requirements of the IMDG
Code or the ICAO Technical Instructions.

Transport units composed of a vehicle or vehicles other than those carrying containers, portable tanks,
tank-containers or MEGCs as provided for in 1.1.4.2.1 (c), which are not placarded in accordance
with the provisions of 5.3.1 of ADR but which are marked and placarded in accordance with Chapter
5.3 of the IMDG Code, shall be accepted for carriage in a transport chain including maritime transport
provided that the orange-coloured plate marking provisions of 5.3.2 of ADR are complied with.

For carriage in a transport chain including maritime or air carriage, the information required under
5.4.1 and 5.4.2 and under any special provision of Chapter 3.3 may be substituted by the transport
document and information required by the IMDG Code or the ICAO Technical Instructions
respectively provided that any additional information required by ADR is also included.
 
NOTE: For carriage in accordance with 1.1.4.2.1, see also 5.4.1.1.7. For carriage in
containers, see also 5.4.2.

 

Use of IMO type portable tanks approved for maritime transport

IMO type portable tanks (types 1, 2, 5 and 7) which do not meet the requirements of Chapters 6.7 or
6.8, but which were built and approved before 1 January 2003 in accordance with the provisions of the
IMDG Code (Amdt. 29-98) may continue to be used provided that they meet the applicable periodic
inspection and test provisions of the IMDG Code1. In addition, they shall meet the provisions
corresponding to the instructions set out in columns (10) and (11) of Table A in Chapter 3.2 and the
provisions of Chapter 4.2 of ADR. See also 4.2.0.1 of the IMDG Code.

(Reserved)

Carriage other than by road

If the vehicle carrying out a transport operation subject to the requirements of ADR is conveyed over
a section of the journey otherwise than by road haulage, then any national or international regulations
which, on the said section, govern the carriage of dangerous goods by the mode of transport used for
conveying the road vehicle shall alone be applicable to the said section of the journey.

In the cases referred to in 1.1.4.5.1 above, the involved ADR Contracting Parties may agree to apply
the requirements of ADR to the section of a journey where a vehicle is conveyed otherwise than by
road haulage, supplemented, if they consider it necessary, by additional requirements, unless such
agreements between the involved ADR Contracting Parties would contravene clauses of the
international conventions governing the carriage of dangerous goods by the mode of transport used for
conveying the road vehicle on the said section of the journey, e.g. the International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), to which these ADR Contacting Parties would also be contracting
parties.
 
These agreements shall be notified by the Contracting Party which has taken the initiative thereof to
the Secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe which shall bring them to the
attention of the Contracting Parties.

 

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