Legal requirements for design approval

Implementation of the international recommendations into national law

The Regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are the basis for the safe transport of radioactive material. They include among others the requirements for packages and the conditions for the approval of package design. Via the United Nations Recommendations (UN "Orange Book"), the regulations are implemented into the provisions for the transport of dangerous goods of the different modes of transport such as road, rail, inland waterways, sea and air. They are set into force in Germany with the corresponding national ordinances (cf. chart).

Responsibilities

The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport is the ministry that is responsible for the transport of dangerous goods. According to the Act on the carriage of dangerous goods, it is authorised, among others, to determine the responsibilities for the approval of package design in the corresponding ordinances relating to the modes of transport.

According to the rules of responsibilities included in the ordinances on the transport of dangerous goods and the Guideline R 003, the Federal Office for Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) is responsible for the approval of package design for type B(U), type B(M) and type C packages for radioactive material, for the package design for fissile material (CF, B(U)F, B(M)F, AF and IF) and for excepted fissile material as well as for the validation of foreign approvals of package design.