MULTIMODAL As is often the case, the third session of the biennium saw the UN TDG experts faced with an enormous agenda. Although some issues were batted back for more work, the meeting did manage to finalise some important changes
ROAD/RAIL Many of the issues that the RID/ADR/ADN joint experts are called upon to debate are of such a technical nature that matters have to be passed on to the standards-setting bodies. Such practice raises its own set of problems
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 its decisions. Its latest session advocated some late changes to the rules due to appear next year
CONFERENCE REPORT Located a few miles outside of downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the site of the world famous Indy 500 race each May.
MULTIMODAL With an ever-lengthening list of dangerous goods to take care of, the UN transport experts do a decent job of getting to grips with arcane technologies.
PACKAGING Leading the development of emerging nations in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa represents something of a test case in the improvement of environmental and quality standards.
GHS One might think that generation of the globally harmonised system of classification and labelling of chemicals would be a finite project but, with a Sub-committee in place, new tasks can always be found – even ten years after it started work
EUROPE While industry is getting to grips with the regulatory amendments that come into force in 2011, the regulators are already cracking on with those that will take effect in 2013.
GHS While the experts took the opportunity at the first meeting of the new biennium to look over some new proposals, they have another three meetings to agree any changes to the Purple Book and few final decisions were made.
MULTIMODAL It seems that the pace of technological change is causing more and more work for the UN experts, who at their first meeting of the new regulatory biennium
