Annexes to COM(2022)59 - EU position at the 57th session of the Committee of Experts for the Carriage of Dangerous Goods as regards certain amendments to Appendix C to the Convention - Main contents

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dossier	COM(2022)59 - EU position at the 57th session of the Committee of Experts for the Carriage of Dangerous Goods as regards certain amendments ...
document	COM(2022)59
date	April 11, 2022

Agreement between the European Union and the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail on the Accession of the European Union to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980, as amended by the Vilnius Protocol of 3 June 1999 (OJ L 51, 23.2.2013, p. 1).

(2) Directive 2008/68/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008 on the inland transport of dangerous goods (OJ L 260, 30.9.2008, p. 13).

ANNEX

Proposal	Reference document	Issue	Comments	EU position
1.	OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021/2	Alignment between the Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, concluded at Geneva on 30 September 1957 (ADR) and RID to include new means of containment in the accident report model	Technical consensus at the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group to adopt the text as amended	Agree
2.	OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021/3 and OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021/INF.3	Alignment between ADR and RID of the requirements concerning the information displayed	Technical consensus at the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group to adopt the text as amended	Agree
3.	OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021/4	Fitting safety valves to tanks for flammable liquefied gases	Technical consensus at the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group to adopt the text as amended	Agree
4.	OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021/5	Consolidated texts adopted by the Joint Meeting in 2020 and 2021 and by the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group in November 2020	Technical consensus at the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group to adopt the text as amended	Agree
5.	OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021/6	Alignment between ADR and RID, among others on design, construction and initial inspection and test of non-UN pressure receptacles designed, constructed and tested according to referenced standards	Technical consensus at the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group to adopt the text as amended	Agree
6.	OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021/INF.4	Transitional measure in relation to 6.8.2.4.6 (procedures used by the competent authority for the approval of experts, the performance of inspections concerning tank-wagons and for the mutual recognition of such inspections)	Technical consensus at the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group to adopt the text as amended	Agree
7.	OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021/INF.11	Proposals on how to adjust RID Chapter 6.8 to consider extra-large tank-containers	Technical consensus at the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group to adopt the text as amended	Agree

All the documents above are available on the OTIF’s website (http://otif.org/en/?page_id=1119) and shall be understood as comprising the amendments discussed in the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group of November 2021 and reflected in Annex I to document OTIF/RID/CE/GTP/2021-A (Final report of the 13th session of the RID Committee of Experts’ standing working group – Geneva/hybrid, 15 to 18 November 2021), also available on the OTIF’s website (http://otif.org/en/?page_id=254).