Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road)

L.N. 360 of 2018

TRAFFIC REGULATION ORDINANCE

(CAP. 65)

Motor Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2018

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 54 of the

Traffic Regulation Ordinance, the Minister for Transport,

Infrastructure and Capital Projects has, after consultation with the

Authority for Transport in Malta, made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Motor Vehicles

(Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) (Amendment) Regulations,

2018, and they shall be read and construed as one with the Motor

Vehicles (Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as ''the principal regulations.''.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to implement the

provisions of Commission Directive (EU) 2018/217 of 31 January

2018 amending Directive 2008/68/EC of the European Parliament and

of the Council on the inland transport of dangerous goods by adapting

Section I.1 of its Annex I to scientific and technical progress.

Regulation regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a)

the definition ''ADR'' shall be substituted by the following

'' ''ADR" means the European Agreement concerning the

International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, concluded

at Geneva on the 30th September 1957, as amended, and has the

same meaning and interpretation given to it by Directive 2008/

68/EC, as amended;''; and

(b) immediately after the definition ''ADR'' there shall be

added the following new definition

'' ''Annex A and Annex B to the ADR'' means the annexes

to the ADR, as applicable from 3 January 2018, it being

understood that ''contracting party'' is substituted by ''Member

State'' as appropriate.''.

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