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in Division 2.2 for sporting or home use to be placed in carry-on baggage as well as checked baggage. A new paragraph 2.6.7.1.3 has been added, mandating that the excepted quantity mark must be applied on one face of the package.
NEW YEAR, NEW RULES AIR • A NEW VERSION OF THE IATA DANGEROUS GOODS REGULATIONS ENTERS INTO FORCE ON 1 JANUARY. SHIPPERS SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF SOME POSSIBLY HELPFUL CHANGES THE INTERNATIONAL AIR Transport Association (IATA) publishes a new edition of its Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR) every year, rather than according to the UN’s biennial cycle. IATA says this allows it to address urgent safety issues and any amendments to state and operator variations. The 61st edition of the DGR, which comes into effect on 1 January 2020, consolidates those amendments agreed by IATA’s Dangerous Goods Board (DGB) over the past year, along with addenda issued by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to the 2019-2020 edition of its Technical Instructions.
The main changes that appear in the 61st edition of the DGR are listed below; readers should be aware that this is not an exhaustive list and, in any case, they will need to purchase their own copy of the new DGR if they are to remain compliant. SECTION 2 Current provisions in 2.3.2.2, 2.3.5.11 and 2.3.5.12 require compliance with a special provision referenced in those paragraphs. To assist customer service personnel, the relevant text of the special provision has been brought into these paragraphs. A revision to 2.3.5.1 now allows aerosols
SECTION 4 Some changes to the List of Dangerous Goods in 4.2 will affect many shippers. Provisions for both UN 2389 Furan and UN 3449 Bromobenzyl cyanides, solid have been aligned with the ICAO text, allowing their carriage on both passenger and cargo only aircraft. In the case of UN 3449, the permitted net quantity per package on passenger aircraft is 5 kg in accordance with packing instruction 666. Special provision A802 has been assigned to UN 1700 Tear gas candles, reinforcing the requirement that packagings must meet PG II performance standards. The words “environmentally hazardous substance” are added to Column D against UN 3077 and 3082 to identify that packages must bear the environmentally hazardous substance mark in addition to the Class 9 label, The dagger symbol has been added against UN 3536 Lithium batteries installed in cargo transport unit, to identify that there is now a glossary entry in Appendix A that provides more information. SECTION 5 A clarification to 5.0.2.11(c) states that only those dangerous goods permitted by PI 620 may be packed in the same outer packaging with UN 2814 or 2900. A revision to 5.0.2.11(h) clarifies the exception from the calculation of the Q value where the dangerous goods have the same UN number, packing group and physical state, to include the same net quantity. For clarity, the single packagings tables in the packing instructions have been reformatted to show the material and type of packaging and their permitted specification codes so as to identify exactly which composite packagings are permitted. There is a consequential amendment in 8.1.6.9.2. PI650 has been revised to identify that the number of packages shown on the air waybill
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