Mainly on the Elbe River - Central Europe

authority. The same applies when the transporter informs the authority about not being acquainted
with the hazardous nature of the transported materials by the originator and therefore wishes to
unload, dissolve or annihilate the load in accordance with the valid regulations.
Accompanying documents – the carriage document
2.4.3 Waterway transport
The European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by
Inland Waterway
The ADN Agreement became effective in 2008 after being ratified by a required number of
seven states. Until today it was ratified by 12 countries – Russia, the Netherlands, Hungary,
Austria, Bulgaria, Luxemburg, Germany, Moldavia, France, Romania, Croatia and Slovakia. The
Czech Republic should ratify the Agreement in 2010 but its requirements have already been
adopted (transport of hazardous materials is assessed according to the ADN by the State
navigation office). The ADN Agreement cannot be interchanged with the ADN-R or ADN-D
Agreements which also concern inland waterway transport of hazardous commodities but they are
issued by the Central Committee for the Rhein and Danube navigation. Although these two
agreements are almost identical with the ADN Agreement and the differences are insignificant, the
degree of consistency is not absolute.
Apart from the above-mentioned requirements of the ADR, RID and ADN regulations stated in
the chapter “Land transport of chemicals”, the ADN requires other obligations.
According to the ADN, the transporter must:
- make sure that the hazardous materials are allowed to be transported according to the
ADN
- make sure that the obligatory documents are on board of the vessel
- make a visual control that there are no apparent defects, leaks or cracks on the vessels
and on the load, the compulsory equipment is not missing, etc.
- make sure that the vessel is not overloaded
- make sure that the equipment required in written instructions for the vessel commander
is on board of the vessel
- make sure that the vessel is correctly labeled
- make sure that the specific requirements concerning loading, transportation, unloading
and handling hazardous materials in cargo areas or cargo tanks were met
Accompanying documents – apart from the documents required by other regulations, the
following documents must be present on board of a vessel:
- the vessel certificate
A feasibility study for “Improvement of Conditions for the River Transport in Central Europe (mainly on the Elbe
River)“ realized within the ChemLog project 46