EC plans danger standard
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• Experts are working on an EC quality standard for the transport of dangerous goods, but any plan to make the standard mandatory will face strong opposition.
The first meeting of a CEN (the European Standards Organisation) working group to devise the standard has been held in the Netherlands: it will be based on the Dutch quality standard NEN 2726.
Peter Lanier, a director of JW Suckling in West Thurrock, Essex became one of the first UK hauliers to be registered with NEN last month.
Lanier describes NEN as a dangerous-goods quality standard which is bolted on to ISO 9002/BS 575 and cannot stand alone. John Hix, a member of the working group and manager at the Freight Transport Association's hazardous cargo services, says any attempt to make the new standard a
mandatory requirement will be strongly resisted by the British Government and associations throughout Europe, including the FTA.
"There are enough standards around which already achieve what is required for dangerous goods transport operators," he says. "Why re invent the wheel?"
Hauliers are awaiting publication of UK draft regulations for harm on isati on
with ADR.