Chapter 5.1
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.205(81) - Adoption of Amendments to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code - (Adopted on 18 May 2006) - Annex - Amendments to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code (Resolution MSC.122(75)) - Part 5 - Chapter 5.1

Chapter 5.1

  5.1.2.1 Add at the end of the last sentence "unless markings and labels representatives of all dangerous goods, as required by chapter 5.2, in the overpack are visible.".

  5.1.2.3 Add a new paragraph to read as follows:

  "5.1.2.3 Each package bearing package orientation markings as prescribed in 5.2.1.7 of this Code and which is overpacked, placed in a unit load or used as an inner packaging in a large packaging shall be oriented in accordance with such markings.".

  5.1.5.1.2.3 Amend to read:

 "For each package requiring competent authority approval, it shall be ensured that all the requirements specified in the approval certificates have been satisfied;".

  5.1.5.2.2.3 Amend to read:

 "The shipment of packages containing fissile materials if the sum of the criticality safety indexes of the packages in a single freight container or in a single conveyance exceeds 50. Excluded from this requirement shall be shipments by seagoing vessels, if the sum of the criticality safety indexes does not exceed 50 for any hold, compartment or defined deck area and the distance of 6 m between groups of packages or overpacks as required in table 7.1.8.4.2 is met; and".

  5.1.5.2.4.4.5 Insert "symbol" after "SI prefix".

Parent topic: Part 5
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