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Packaging & Labelling

segregated from incompatible substances and goods More detailed information is available in the Ministry
and that the cargo transport unit is correctly labelled of Transport’s document –Transporting Dangerous
and marked. In addition to meeting the dangerous Goods Safely. This can be found at:
goods packaging requirements, it is important to stow http://www.transport.govt.nz/assets/Import/
goods in cargo transport units so that they will not Documents/Transporting20Dangerous20Goods.pdf
shift during transport. Guidance on container packing Information regarding land transport requirements
can be found in the supplement to the IMDG Code and can be found at: www.nzta.govt.nz/licence/
in New Zealand Standards Handbook, SNZ HB 77:2008 getting/dangerous-hazardous.html
“Guide for the packing and transport of dangerous The Land Transport Dangerous Goods Rule can be
goods in transport units”. found at: http://nzta.thomsonreuters.co.nz/DLEG-
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everything else that follows will also be incorrect. http://www.maritimenz.govt.nz/rules/part-24A/
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Classifying a pure substance may be as simple as http://www.caa.govt.nz/rules/Part_092_Brief.
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index of the relevant dangerous goods code. However
in many cases, information on the ingredients of a Introduction of REACH in the EU
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is required. Checks by Maritime New Zealand and manufacture and importation of hazardous substances
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and documentation. Inappropriate packaging is also registration, evaluation and authorisation of existing
frequently found. and new substances and mixtures. The amount of
Except in “limited quantity” and “excepted information required and the deadline to register
quantities”, dangerous goods must be in packaging existing substances depends on the quantity of the
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goods in “limited quantity” must be packed in Registrations of substances can only be done by
combination packages, i.e. in both an inner and an EU-based company or person. REACH also affects,
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limited to relatively small packages and lower hazard chemicals. While manufactured products do not have to
substances. be registered, the ingredients do have to be registered

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