Shipping paperwork

Finally, the shipper is required to include on the shipping paperwork a statement accepting personal responsibility for the correct preparation of the shipment and shipping documentation. The requirement is set forth in 49 CFR 172.204 and includes exact language for the shipper certification statement. 

Corresponding IAEA competent authority validation (acceptance) must be obtained from each transit and destination country. These IAEA competent authority validations need to be included in the shipping paperwork (reference 49 CFR 173.471, 173.472, and 173.473). While a formal competent authority approval is not required for IPs, the shipper may be required to have approval for the package in the coxmtry of origin and destination. This needs to be verified prior to making any international shipment. 

Each hazardous waste handler must comply with certain recordkeeping requirements for LDR notifications and paperwork. Generators, treatment facilities, and disposal facilities must keep copies of all LDR paperwork associated with the waste they ship or receive in their facility files for three years. 

In what is being called the most far-reaching overhaul of European Union environmental policy ever, the European Commission released a draft policy proposal on May 7 that, if enacted, would require virtually all manufacturers of chemicals to provide risk assessments and other information regarding products they sell or ship into the EU. Chemicals would also have to be registered with the EC and many downstream users of products that contain chemical entities would have to file paperwork as well. The Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals, or REACH, proposal would apply to approximately 30,000 new and existing chemicals, and test data would have to be developed on some 5000 specific chemical entities, many of which have been commonly used for decades. EUROPEAN COMMISSION... 

Many commercial shipping companies will accept a properly prepared shipping Dewar containers for transport around the world. Each investigator should check with the shipping company of choice about requirements, paperwork, and cost. 

Both India and China have adopted international standards for export shipments. The biggest concerns about exportation arise from the lack of controls and inspections to assure that the paperwork accurately describes the products. This concern is greater in China than in India, where exports are actually inspected before shipping, and are often delayed until the inspector releases the shipment. 

Transboundary shipping requirements (/.e., notice and consent paperwork) are a potential impediment to such movement, however, if they are unnecessarily burdensome and time consuming. This is important both from the perspective of encouraging collection and shipment for recycling, and in order to assure the economic success of reclamation activities. The facilities that process and recycle Ni-Cd batteries require a degree of certainty about the availability and time of arrival of their feedstock. Delay or uncertainty of supply adds to costs and undermines the recycling process. 

Familiar examples of reducing steps are autodialers on telephones and use of address lists for email. Many retailers now have their computers communicate point-of-sale information not only to their own central computer but also to their vendors computers. The original concept was to speed vendors manufacturing and shipping, but the retailers soon realized that the elimination of all the purchasing paperwork led to drastic error reductions. 

Ensure that all shipping documentation (e.g., manifest, security seal sheet, bills of lading, shipping orders, or freight bills, etc.) required to move with shipments is available for inspection and that appropriate paperwork accompanies shipment when delivered. 

As ports offer many things to customers, they have many operators working within them. The goods meant for shipment might, for example, have to be transported to the port, stored and loaded on a ship, and have the necessary paperwork completed. These tasks require the efforts of many people for their smooth and safe completion. The network of these operators and businesses and their interest groups is called a port community. There are private and municipal operators in a port as well as representatives of the state, in the form of customs and border guards (Karvonen and Tikkala 2004). A sketch of port community participants is presented in Fig. 1. 

Hazardous materials paperwork. Shipping papers must be within the driver s immediate reach. 

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