The recommendations in the
Manual of Tests and Criteria supplement the "Recommendations on the Transport of
Dangerous Goods" and the Model Regulations annexed thereto. The third revised edition
of the Manual of Tests and Criteria results from the decisions of the United Nations
Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods up to its twentieth (1998)
session.
Corrections to the third
revised edition are included in Part I of this publication.
The amendments contained in
Part II have been adopted by the Committee at its twenty-first (2000) session (refer to
ST/SG/AC.10/27/Add.2). They concern new provisions for the classification criteria and
testing procedures for lithium batteries. They are published at the request of the United
Nations Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2001/34 of 26 July 2001.
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