OBLIGATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

In Chapter 1.4 of ADR/RID/ADN the safety obligations of the main participants in the carriage of dangerous goods are indicated, following the definitions in Chapter 1.2 for the different participants.

The UNSCETDG should look to this question from two points of view:
1) considering the usefulness of having multimodal agreed definitions of the responsibilities of the participants in the transport of dangerous goods
2) harmonizing the definitions of participants.

On the second point look for instance to the following definitions:
- “Consignor” is defined in the UN Model Regulations, in the IMDG Code, in ADR/RID/ADN (with different wording), but not in the ICAO T.I
- “Shipper” is defined only in IMDG Code, specifying that it has the same meaning of “Consignor”
- in the Multimodal Dangerous Goods Form (as in the UN Model Regulations, IMDG Code and ADR/RID/ADN) reference is made several times to the “Shipper”, apart from the first box where reference is made to “Shipper/Consignor/Sender”