International Union of Private Wagons (UIP)

Track back

RAIL Although the applicability of the RID Regulations is broadening, operators and users still need to interface with a different legal structure to the east, in both regulatory and technical areas. Smoothing this interface is likely to be one of the most demanding tasks of the new RID standing working group

Wascosa rail tank

Slips and drips

RAIL The RID experts followed their WP15 colleagues in rejecting some of the recent changes adopted at the joint meeting. However, their agenda was overflowing with rail-specific amendments, many of which have been agreed for entry into force next year

Rail tanks carrying hazardous chemicals

Joint decisions

MULTIMODAL Europe’s surface transport regulators are closing in on the texts that will come into force next year. However, those texts are not yet set in stone and there may be some surprises to come before final decisions are made

Road Signs in Europe

2013 starts here

MULTIMODAL Anyone who sees the role of Europe’s regulators as being to transpose the UN Recommendations into the region’s rulebooks will have been disappointed to see the huge number of topics to be discussed at the last joint meeting.

Road Tanker on the steppes

Problems, problems...

MULTIMODAL Regulators in all the modal authorities are finding problems in aligning the provisions for environmentally hazardous substances, spurred by changes originating in GHS.

Road Tanker on Construction Site

Continental drift

Europe Although global harmonisation is the ultimate goal of the regulators, Europe’s land transport regulations include a variety of provisions that are absent from the international rulebooks.

Suttons Tank Containers

Lay down the law

RAIL Those impacted by the transport regulations are not normally that concerned with the legal aspects of the documents concerned. However, changes in the way that Europe’s rail sector is legislated do have a material impact on how dangerous goods are regulated

Steeled for action

ROAD/RAIL With the UN model regulations now providing the paramount set of rules for the transport of dangerous goods, Europe's regulators are more closely concerned with rules governing the construction of transport equipment

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