MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE MSC 90/28/Add.2 Original ...

1 I:\MSC\90\ E MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE 90th session Agenda item 28 MSC 90/28 21 June 2012 Original : ENGLISH REPORT OF THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE ON ITS NINETIETH SESSION Attached is the first part of annex 4 (Annex 1, Amendments to the international MARITIME dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code (amendment 36-12), List of contents, foreword, preamble and parts 1 to 7, including appendices A and B) to the report of the MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE on its ninetieth session (MSC 90/28). ** MSC 90/28 Annex 4, page 1 I:\MSC\90\ ANNEX 4 RESOLUTION (90) ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE international MARITIME dangerous GOODS (IMDG) CODE (AMENDMENT 36-12) Annex 1 List of Contents, Foreword, Preamble and parts 1 to 7, including appendices A and B iiiIMDG Code (Amdt.)

2 36-12)ContentsForeword .. xiPreamble .. xiiiPART 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS AND TRAININGC hapter General Introductory note .. Application and implementation of the Code .. Conventions .. dangerous goods forbidden from transport .. 9 Chapter Definitions, units of measurement and Definitions .. Units of measurement .. List of abbreviations .. 24 Chapter Training Introductory note .. Training of shore-side personnel .. 26 Chapter Security Scope.

3 General provisions for companies, ships and port facilities .. General provisions for shore-side personnel .. Provisions for high consequence dangerous goods .. 32 Chapter General provisions concerning class Scope and application .. Radiation protection programme .. Quality assurance.. Special arrangement .. Radioactive material possessing other dangerous properties .. Non-compliance .. 37 PART 2 CLASSIFICATIONC hapter Responsibilities .. Classes, divisions, packing groups.

4 UN Numbers and Proper Shipping Names .. Classification of substances, mixtures and solutions with multiple hazards (precedence of hazard characteristics) .. Transport of samples .. Transport of wastes .. 45 PageContentsivIMDG Code (Amdt. 36-12)Chapter Class 1 Introductory notes (these notes are not mandatory) .. Definitions and general provisions .. Compatibility groups and classification codes .. Classification procedure .. 50 Chapter Class 2 Introductory note .. Definitions and general provisions.

5 Class subdivisions .. Mixtures of gases .. 57 Chapter Class 3 Flammable Introductory note .. Definitions and general provisions .. Assignment of packing group .. Determination of flashpoint .. Determination of initial boiling point .. 62 Chapter Class 4 Flammable solids; substances liable to spontaneous combustion; substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable Introductory note .. Definition and general provisions.. Class Flammable solids, self-reactive substances and solid desensitized explosives.

6 Class Substances liable to spontaneous combustion .. Class Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases Classification of organometallic substances .. 71 Chapter Class 5 Oxidizing substances and organic Introductory note .. Definitions and general provisions .. Class Oxidizing substances .. Class Organic peroxides .. 75 Chapter Class 6 Toxic and infectious Introductory notes .. Definitions .. Class Toxic substances .. Class Infectious substances .. 92 Chapter Class 7 Radioactive Definitions.

7 Classification .. 98 Chapter Class 8 Corrosive Definition and properties .. Assignment of packing groups .. 117 PageContentsvIMDG Code (Amdt. 36-12)Chapter Miscellaneous dangerous substances and articles (Class 9) and environmentally hazardous Definitions .. Assignment to class 9 .. Environmentally hazardous substances (aquatic environment) .. Lithium batteries .. 130 Chapter Marine Definition .. General provisions .. Classification.

8 132 PART 3 dangerous GOODS LIST, SPECIAL PROVISIONS AND EXCEPTIONSC hapter Scope and general provisions .. Proper Shipping Names .. Mixtures or solutions .. Segregation groups .. 138 Chapter dangerous Goods Structure of the dangerous Goods List .. Abbreviations and symbols .. 154 Chapter Special provisions applicable to certain substances, materials or articles Chapter dangerous goods packed in limited General .. Packing .. Stowage .. Segregation .. Marking and placarding.

9 Documentation .. 177 Chapter dangerous goods packed in excepted quantities Excepted quantities .. Packagings .. Tests for packages .. Marking of packages .. Maximum number of packages in any cargo transport unit .. Documentation .. Stowage .. Segregation .. 180 AppendicesAppendix A List of generic and Proper Shipping Names .. 183 Appendix B Glossary of terms .. 197 PageContentsviIMDG Code (Amdt. 36-12)PART 4 PACKING AND TANK PROVISIONSC hapter Use of packagings, including intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) and large Definitions.

10 General provisions for the packing of dangerous goods in packagings, including IBCs and large packagings .. Additional general provisions for the use of IBCs .. General provisions concerning packing instructions .. List of packing instructions .. 217 Packing instructions concerning the use of packagings (except IBCs and large packagings) .. 217 Packing instructions concerning the use of IBCs .. 272 Packing instructions concerning the use of large packagings .. Special packing provisions for goods of class 1.