SI 2007/1573 The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2007

This Statutory Instrument regulates the carriage of dangerous goods by road and rail in Great Britain . It also, in so far as it relates to safety advisers, regulates the carriage of dangerous goods by inland waterway.

It transposes:

• Commission Directive 2006/89/EC of 3 November 2006 adapting for the sixth time to technical progress Council Directive 94/55/EC of 21 November 1994 on the approximation of the laws of the Members States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by road; and
• Commission Directive 2006/90/EC of 3 November 2006 adapting for the seventh time to technical progress Council Directive 96/49/EC of 23 July 1996 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by rail.

It also replaces:

• the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2004 (the 2004 Carriage Regulations);
• the Radioactive Materials (Road Transport) Regulations 2002 (RAMRoad); and
• the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2001 (REPPIR) to the extent that REPPIR applied to transport by rail.

In replacing those Regulations, these Regulations legislate in relation to the same subject matter as that covered by those Regulations. The result is a consolidated set of regulations covering the safe movement of all classes of dangerous goods by road and rail.