IPPIC Participates in Meeting of UN Subcommittee of Experts On the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Offers Four Papers

摘要

ACA, though its Transportation and Distribution Committee and the International Paint and Printing Inks Council (IPPIC), is proactively engaged in efforts to harmonize shipping requirements for the United States and other international codes to eliminate lost time and added costs in cross-border and multi-modal shipments of paint and allied products. As such, IPPIC participated in the latest meeting of the United Nations Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UN SCE TDG) held in late June in Geneva, Switzerland. IPPIC submitted four informational papers to streamline the UN Model Regulations, which govern the shipment of products across country borders. The UN SCE TDG works on a biennium schedule: four meetings over the course of two years. The last meeting of the biennium occurred in December 2012; the first meeting of the 2013-2014 biennium was held in June 2013. The last meeting of the biennium is very important because it is the last opportunity to have proposals adopted into the UN Model Regulations before the next revision, and all decisions that were made in previous meetings during the biennium remain "on the table" until the meeting is adjourned. During the 2011-2012 biennium, approximately 150 formal proposals and 240 informational papers were submitted and considered by the Subcommittee of Experts.