Approval of shipments under special arrangement

Although an approval of a shipment under special arrangement wiU require consideration of both the shipment procedures and the package design, the approval is conceptually a shipment approval. Eurther guidance may be found in paras 312.1-312.4. 

The level of safety necessary in special arrangement shipments is normally achieved by imposing operational controls to compensate for any non-conformances in the packaging or the shipping procedures. Some of the operational controls which may be effectively employed are as follows  

COMPETENT AUTHORITY APPROVAL CERTIFICATES Competent authority identification marks 

It is essential that easy means are available, preferably in the identification mark, for determining nnder which edition of the Regulations the original package 

Edition of Regulations Package design identification mark 

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An application for approval of shipments under special arrangement shall include all the information necessary to satisfy the competent authority that the overall level of safety in transport is at least equivalent to that which would be provided if all the applicable requirements of these Regulations had been met. The application shall also include ... 

Upon approval of shipments under special arrangement, the competent authority shall issue an approval certificate. 

Special arrangement means those provisions approved by the competent authority under which a consignment which does not satisfy all the applicable provisions of this class may be transported. For international shipments of this type, multilateral approval is required see schedule 13. IMO Class 7, 2.21... 

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