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Division RO-SQ 15.4 (amended)

United Kingdom

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Subject

  • Exemption from the requirement for vehicles carrying low-level radioactive material to carry fire-fighting equipment (E4).

    • Reference to the Annex to the Directive

  • 8.1.4.

    • Content of the Annex to the Directive

  • Requirement for vehicles to carry fire-fighting appliances.

    • Reference to national legislation

  • The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Regulations 2002 Regulation 5(4)(d).

    • Content of national legislation

  • Removes requirement to carry fire extinguishers when carrying only exempted packages (UN 2908, 2909, 2910 and 2911).

    Restricts the requirement where only a small number of packages are carried.

    • Comments

  • Carriage of fire-fighting equipment is in practice irrelevant to the transport of UN 2908, 2909, 2910, UN 2911, which may often be carried in small vehicles.