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transport of dangerous goods and risk management - Kirilo Savić

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TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS AND RISK MANAGEMENT 62Classification, characterisation <strong>and</strong> labelling <strong>of</strong> waste for the purposes <strong>of</strong> multimodal <strong>transport</strong>Hazardous waste from the exploitation <strong>of</strong> vessels, after the reception on behalf <strong>of</strong> expert teams in a harbour, is<strong>transport</strong>ed by road or rail <strong>transport</strong> to the final destination for their treatment or disposal. For that reason, it isnecessary to carry out the preparation <strong>of</strong> waste which has labels for vessel labelling on the received containers orpacking (Tables 3 – 3g). Drawing on the fact that the national regulations on hazardous materials <strong>transport</strong> need tobe mainly in line with the international regulations ADN 8 <strong>and</strong> IMDG 9 (internal <strong>and</strong> maritime navigation), ADR 10(l<strong>and</strong> <strong>transport</strong>) <strong>and</strong> RID 11 (rail <strong>transport</strong>), it turned out that it was necessary to conduct a classification for all theabove-stated <strong>dangerous</strong> waste materials, to determine the methods <strong>of</strong> labelling <strong>and</strong> to define the conditions <strong>of</strong><strong>transport</strong>ing these materials, in accordance with the requirements <strong>of</strong> these regulations. Apart from that, it isnecessary to fulfil the requirements <strong>of</strong> other international institutions (the OECD, the UN, <strong>and</strong> the EuropeanCommission), conventions (the Basel Convention 12 , the MARPOL 73/78 Convention 13 ) <strong>and</strong> Decisions. Apart fromthe classification <strong>of</strong> hazardous waste, it is necessary to determine the categories <strong>of</strong> waste to be checked 12 , <strong>dangerous</strong>characteristics <strong>of</strong> waste <strong>and</strong> national waste labels.An additional problem is connected with different labels for labelling vehicles for <strong>transport</strong>ing hazardous waste incertain types <strong>of</strong> traffic <strong>and</strong> packing for hazardous materials, which is particularly noticeable in the case <strong>of</strong> combined(multimodal) <strong>transport</strong>. National regulations in certain countries in the field <strong>of</strong> labelling waste materials are notreconciled with the stated international regulations, which additionally complicates the preparation <strong>of</strong> hazardouscargos for <strong>transport</strong>. That is why the adoption <strong>of</strong> universal labels for labelling packing according to GloballyHarmonised System <strong>of</strong> Classification <strong>and</strong> Labelling Chemicals for hazardous materials (GHS) 14 should be aspiredto.Legal claim for the classification <strong>of</strong> waste materials from the exploitation <strong>of</strong> vesselsIn the project, a thorough classification <strong>of</strong> waste was performed according to the following regulative:the list <strong>of</strong> waste from Annex VIII (List A) or Annex IX (List B) <strong>of</strong> the Basel Convention 12 <strong>and</strong> theEuropean Commission Regulations, which were transferred into the Law <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Serbia 16 ; the OECD lists (Green, Amber <strong>and</strong> Red) pursuant to No 1999/816/EC <strong>and</strong> the Decision <strong>of</strong> the Council C,the Amendments to this Decision, as well as the Code <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Serbia 4 ;European Catalogue <strong>of</strong> Waste (EWC List) 8 , in line with the Decision <strong>of</strong> the European Commission 19 , theRider to the Decision 2000/532/EC on the waste lists 20 , the Regulations <strong>of</strong> EC No 1013/2006 21 <strong>and</strong> theCode <strong>of</strong> the Republic <strong>of</strong> Serbia 4 .Additional classification in terms <strong>of</strong> the types <strong>of</strong> danger <strong>and</strong> labelling (through R-phrases for warning <strong>and</strong> S-phrasesfor announcement) was carried out pursuant to the EU Directives (Annex I B Directive 2001/59/EC 22 <strong>and</strong> Directive67/548/EEC 23 ) <strong>and</strong> the National Regulative 24 .According to the stated Regulative, there is a List with warning signs (<strong>of</strong> <strong>risk</strong>) R1 – R64 <strong>and</strong> the List with thepossible combinations <strong>of</strong> warning signs (in total 57 signs for all possible combinations). The warning signs R50 –R53 refer to the danger to aquatic organisms (R50 – very poisonous to aquatic organisms; R51 – poisonous toaquatic organisms <strong>and</strong> R52 – hazardous to aquatic organisms), whereas R53 <strong>and</strong> R58 indicate potential long-lastingundesirable effects on the aquatic, i.e. natural environment.With this Directive 23 the List <strong>of</strong> Chemicals was established (Chemical Legislation) <strong>of</strong> the European Union whichincludes the data for over 2500 substances on the degree <strong>of</strong> toxicity, <strong>risk</strong>, eco-toxicity, physical characteristics etc.In that way the following data on hazardous materials can be obtained:

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