Official Document Official Document REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA LAW ON CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS BY CAR, RAIL AND INLAND WATERWAY December 11,
- No. IX - 636 Vilnius CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article
- Purpose of the Law and Areas of Application
- This Law shall establish the legal and organisational principles of the carriage of dangerous goods by car, rail and waterway, in striving to ensure the safe carriage of dangerous goods.
- The Law shall not regulate the legal and organisational principles of the civil defence activity and carriage of nuclear materials intended for nuclear power, and dangerous military goods. The Law on Safe Navigation and the Law on Commercial Navigation and other legal acts shall regulate the carriage of dangerous goods by sea and air. Article
- Basic Definitions of the Law
- Dangerous goods means those substances or articles, which owing to their chemical or physical properties may endanger human health, environment or property and which have been allotted identification numbers and are included on the list of dangerous substances, which has been drawn up by the European Economic Commission of the United Nations Organisation and are also listed in the international agreements of Republic of Lithuania, which regulate the carriage of dangerous goods.
- Consignee of dangerous goods means a natural or legal person who receives dangerous goods.
- Storer of dangerous goods means an undertaking, which has been registered in accordance with the procedure established by laws and is warehousing dangerous goods.
- Sender of dangerous goods means a natural or legal person, who transmits dangerous goods for carriage.
- Carrier of dangerous goods means an undertaking registered according to the procedure set forth by the laws, which has the right to engage in the carriage of dangerous goods.
- Carriage of dangerous goods means the preparation to ship, acceptance from the sender, carriage of dangerous goods and their issuance to the consignee including the loading, unloading, transhipment and temporary warehousing.
- Participants of carriage of dangerous goods mean the sender, the carrier, the consignee and the storer of dangerous goods.
- Vehicle means motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer and boxcar in which dangerous goods may be carried. In implementing control in the carriage of dangerous goods by road, tractors and self-propelled machines shall also be attributed to vehicles. Article
- Legal Regulation of Dangerous Goods Carriage
- In the Republic of Lithuania, this Law, other Republic of Lithuania laws, Government Resolutions and other legal acts shall regulate the carriage of dangerous goods.
- The international agreements of the Republic of Lithuania, Republic of Lithuania laws and Government Resolutions shall regulate the international co-operation of the Republic of Lithuania in the sphere of carriage of dangerous goods. CHAPTER II STATE ADMINISTRATION OF DANGEROUS GOODS CARRIAGE Article
- State Administration of Dangerous Goods Carriage 1.The Government of the Republic of Lithuania or the institutions authorised by it and also municipal governments shall implement the state administration of the carriage of dangerous goods.
- In ensuring safe carriage of dangerous goods, the Government of the Republic of Lithuania or its authorised institutions shall: 1) draft, approve and implement the legal acts, which regulate the carriage of dangerous goods activities; 2) control the carriage of dangerous goods; 3) establish the routes of dangerous goods carriage; 4) conduct expert analysis of accidents, which involve the carriage of dangerous goods and which have caused serious consequences, and administer the record thereof; 5) accumulate statistical data on issues of dangerous goods carriage; 6) provide consultations on questions of dangerous goods carriage; 7) set the restrictions of dangerous goods carriage for the purposes of national security and environmental protection; 8) perform the functions regulating the carriage of dangerous goods, set forth by the laws and other legal acts.
- The municipal governments shall establish the routes on the roads of local significance, on which it shall be prohibited or recommended to carry dangerous goods, and the stopping places of the vehicles which carry dangerous goods, and implement the other functions established by the laws and legal acts regulating the carriage of dangerous goods.
- Prevention measures of accidents in connection with the carriage of dangerous goods shall be implemented, accident situations shall be liquidated and the consequences of accidents shall be eliminated according to the procedure set forth by the Civil Protection Law, other laws and legal acts. CHAPTER III ENSURING SAFE CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS Article
- Safety Adviser for the Transport of Dangerous Goods A safety adviser responsible for the safe transport of dangerous goods, must be designated according to the procedure established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania or an institution authorised by it, in every undertaking whose activities involve the transport of dangerous goods by road, by rail and inland waterway. Article
- Statistics of Transport of Dangerous Goods All of the undertakings whose activities involve the carriage of dangerous goods must in accordance with the procedure established by the Republic of Lithuania Government or an institution authorised by it, submit to the Department of Statistics at the Government of the Republic of Lithuania statistical data concerning the carriage of dangerous goods. Article
- Setting of Routes for Carriage of Dangerous Goods An institution authorised by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall set the routes on the roads, rail and waterways of national significance, on which the carriage of dangerous goods it shall be prohibited or recommended and organise the establishment of standing areas for vehicles with dangerous goods. Article
- Control of Carriage of Dangerous Goods
- The Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall establish the procedure for the carriage of dangerous goods.
- The institutions authorised by the Government of Lithuania shall implement the control of the carriage of dangerous goods.
- The routes, on which the carriage of dangerous goods is restricted, shall be published in accordance with the procedure established by the institution authorised by the Government. Article
- Commission of Experts of Carriage of Dangerous Goods The Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall establish a Commission of Experts of Carriage of Dangerous Goods, comprised of the representatives of the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Ministry of the Interior, for the purpose of conducting an expertise of accidents in connection with the carriage of dangerous goods, which have caused serious consequences. CHAPTER IV LIABILITY AND INSURANCE Article
- Liability for Violations of This Law The persons in violation of this Law shall draw administrative and criminal liability, in accordance with the procedure established by the laws. Article
- Insurance The participants in the carriage of dangerous goods shall insure in accordance with the procedure set forth in the laws, their civil liability for the damage, which, in carrying dangerous goods, may be inflicted upon third parties and (or) their property and the environment. CHAPTER V FINAL PROVISIONS Article
- Entry into Force of the Law This Law shall enter into force from March 1,
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- To propose to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania or Institution Authorised by It To propose to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania or an institution authorised by it to prepare and approve by March 1, 2002, the legal acts necessary to implement this Law. I promulgate this Law approved by the Seimas of Republic of Lithuania PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC VALDAS ADAMKUS