LAWON CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES("Official Gazette of the SFRY", Nos. 27/1990 and 45/1990 - correction and "Official Gazette of the FRY", Nos. 24/1994, 28/1996 - other Law and 68/2002, "Official Gazette of Serbia and Montenegro", No.1/2003 - Constitutional Charter and "Official Herald of Republic of Serbia", No. 36/2009 - other Law) |
Article 1
The present Law regulates the conditions of effecting the carriage of dangerous substances, and actions in connection with such carriage (preparation of substances for carriage, loading and unloading, and manipulation along the way), as well as the supervision over the enforcement of the present Law.
Article 2
In terms of the present Law dangerous substances shall include:
class 1a - Explosive substances;
class 1b - Objects filled with explosive substances;
class 1c - Ignition devices, fireworks objects and other objects;
class 2 - Compressed gases, gases turned into liquid, and gases dissolved under pressure;
class 3 - Flammable liquids;
class 4.1 - Flammable solid substances;
class 4.2 - Substances being apt to self-ignition;
class 4.3 - Substances evolving flammable gases in contact with water;
class 5.1 - Oxidizing substances;
class 5.2 - Organic peroxides;
class 6.1 - Poisons;
class 6.2 - Loathing and contagious substances;
class 7 - Radioactive substances;
class 8 - Corrosive (irritant) substances;
class 9 - Other dangerous substances.
Explosive substances, objects filled with explosive substances, ignition devices, fireworks objects and other objects (hereinafter: explosive substances) shall include solid and liquid chemical substances which under favorable external effect (shock or friction), release energy in the form of heat or gases.
Compressed gases, gases turned into liquid and gases dissolved under pressure (hereinafter: gases) shall include substances with a critical temperature under 50 degrees Celsius or, at 50 degrees Celsius, with the steam pressure exceeding 300 kPa (3 bars).
Flammable liquids shall include liquids or compounds of liquids having at the temperature of 50 degrees Celsius a steam pressure of 300 kPa (3 bars), and the ignition point under 100 degrees Celsius.
Flammable solid substances shall include solid substances which, when dry, may easily catch fire in contact with flame or spark (sulfur, celluloid, nitrocellulose, red phosphorus, and the like), bur which are not prone to self-ignition.
Substances apt to self-ignition shall include substances catching fire in the contact with air or water without interference of other materials (white and yellow phosphorus, zinc alkyls, waste, nitrocellulose films, raw cotton, used rags and the like).
Substances evolving flammable gases in contact with air shall include substances that, in contact with air, evolve gases that ignite in contact with flame and spark (sodium, potassium, calcium, calcium-carbide, alcalous silicides and the like).
Oxidising substances shall include substances that, in contact with other substances, become decomposed and may cause fire in the process (chlorides, perphlorates, hydrogen-super-oxides water solution, alcalous metals peroxides and their preparations, and the like).
Organic peroxides shall include organic substances with high oxidation degree that may be hazardous for the life or health of people or damaging to property, but that are less susceptible to explosion of dinitrobenzene in contact with flame, or under the effect of a shock and/or friction.
Poisons shall include substances of synthetic, biological or natural origin, and preparations manufactured from these substances which, when introduced in the organism or in contact with organism, may be hazardous for life and health of people or damaging to environment.
Loathing or contagious substances shall include substances spreading unpleasant odor or containing micro-organisms or their toxins that are known to be apt to cause contagious diseases of people and animals (raw unsalted or salt-processed hides, waste, innards, glands, faeces and the like).
Radioactive substances shall include substances whose specific activity exceeds 74 becquerels (0,02 micro-curies).
Corrosive (irritant) substances shall include substances that, in contact with other substances and living organisms, cause damage to them or their destruction (sulfuric acid, nitrogen acid, bromine, formic acid, natrium-chlorine-oxide and the like).
Other dangerous substances shall include substances which, when in transport, constitute danger, but may not be sorted in classes 1 through 8 (asbestos, dry ice, magnetic materials and the like).
Dangerous substances shall also include raw materials serving in the manufacturing of dangerous substances, and producing waste - if possessing the characteristics of such substances
Article 3
Enterprises and other legal entities and individuals effecting carriage of dangerous substances or handing over such substances for carriage, and performing actions relating to such carriage, as well as individuals directly handling, in course of carriage, or in some other way coming in contact with dangerous substances, shall be obliged to take preventive and protective measures in order to protect animals and health of people, the environment or material goods and/or safety of traffic.
If a dangerous substance has also properties of another dangerous substance which falls in class 2, and such properties may be hazardous for the life and health of people, the environment or material goods, the enterprises and other legal entities and individuals, effecting carriage of such substance, or taking actions relating to such carriages, as well as individuals handling, in course of carriage, or in some other way coming into contact with such substances, shall be obliged to take preventive and protective measures aimed at preventing such dangers as well.
If the substance referred to in paragraph 2 of the present Article possesses one or several properties due to which it may be classified as dangerous substance whose carriage is subject to special approval, such substance may be carried only after obtaining the approval of the authority in charge, regardless of the manner of its classification.
Article 4
Newly invented dangerous substances may be carried after meeting the conditions that through scientific examination, are established as conditions providing full safety in their carriage.
Article 5
Dangerous substances may be handled only by persons of age, who are professionally qualified for the job. Dangerous substances may be carried only by persons who are professionally qualified to engage in the carriage of dangerous substances and who have turned twenty-one.
Persons who are not professionally qualified to handle dangerous substances and, after being acquainted with the manner of work and with dangers and measures of safety at work, may only carry over, load, unload or reload dangerous substances under the guidance and supervision by a person professionally qualified in handling dangerous substances.
Vocational training of persons handling dangerous substances and carrying dangerous substances shall be effected by enterprises meeting the technical conditions and having personnel qualified for the performance of such tasks, and which are duly authorised by the authority in charge in the republic and/or autonomous province.
Article 6
Enterprises and other legal entities carrying dangerous substances and taking actions relating to the carriage shall be obliged to organise and control continuously the carrying out of measures and to control the fulfilment of conditions that are prescribed for the carriage of dangerous substances, and the taking of actions relating to carriage, in conformity with the present Law, the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law, and the international treaties on carriage of dangerous substances in particular branches of transport.
Article 7
Joint packaging, prohibition of joint carriage in the same transportation means and/or in the same space for placing shipments, and the exclusion from carriage of dangerous substances, shall be subject, respectively, to the provisions of international treaties relating to carriage of dangerous substances in individual branches of transport.
Article 8
A holder of the right of disposal and/or an owner, shall be obliged to insure a dangerous substance against the risk of inflicting damage to third parties involving death, injury to body or health, loss or destruction of property, or pollution of environment in course of carriage.
The provision specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall not apply to small quantities of dangerous substances referred to in Article 51, paragraph 2, and Article 71, paragraph 3 of the present Law.
Article 9
Provisions of the present Law shall not apply to the carriage of dangerous substances by transportation means of the Armed Forces of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Provisions of the present Law shall not apply either to power-generating fuel of transportation means, as well as to other dangerous substances serving for operating transportation means, that are placed in appropriate receptacles integrated in the transportation means.
II JOINT SAFETY MEASURES RELATING TO ALL DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES OR TO SPECIFIC KINDS OF THESE SUBSTANCES
Article 10
Packing material applied in the carriage of dangerous substances has to provide protection of life and health of people and the environment in course of carriage of dangerous substances and the handling of dangerous substances.
The packing material applied in the carriage of dangerous substances has to be closed and impenetrable, so as to prevent, in course of carriage, any loss or spilling of the contents.
The packing material, together with caps, has to be in all its parts sufficiently resistant and strong so as to prevent shakiness in course of carriage.
A dangerous substance must not cause corrosion of the packing material and the caps used in their manufacture, nor create with them damaging or hazardous compounds.
If a dangerous substance is packed in a packing material susceptible to moisture, the space in the transportation means such substance is placed in has to be protected against moisture and covered with impenetrable covering.
Article 11
Receptacles, cisterns, containers and other kinds of packing material for the carriage of dangerous substances have to be manufactured in conformity with the prescribed standards for the corresponding class of dangerous substances.
If the dangerous substances are carried in containers made of fragile material or low resistance plastics, such containers have to be placed in a protective receptacle and be secured with material for filling up of empty space, for the purpose of preventing container breakage in normal carriage conditions.
The material used for filling up of empty space has to be adjusted to the nature of the dangerous substance, and be particularly suitable for absorbing a liquid dangerous substance or a liquid that may be excreted by the dangerous substance
Article 12
Receptacles for the carriage of a dangerous substance or a dangerous substance immersed in a liquid, and receptacles for the carriage of a solution of the dangerous substance, as well as their caps, have to be of such a quality so as to stand internal pressure due to temperature changes to be attained by the substances in course of carriage, while taking into account the need for providing empty space to allow for the expansion of the liquid.
If the carriage of a dangerous substance is effected by a plane in which the air pressure at changing the height in course of flight is not normal, the receptacles a liquid dangerous substance is stored in and their caps have to be of such a quality so as to stand the air pressure changes.
Article 13
Receptacles for the carriage of dangerous substances whose cubic capacity exceeds 200 liters have to be manufactured of steel plate or other appropriate material.
If receptacles for the carriage of a dangerous liquid substance are manufactured of fragile material and are packed in a group, the total mass of these receptacles filled up with dangerous liquid substance shall not exceed 75 kilograms, and where the receptacles are manufactured of material which is not fragile, and are packed in a group - the total mass of such receptacles, together with the dangerous liquid substance, shall not exceed 150 kilograms.
Article 14
Bottles applied in the carriage of a dangerous substance shall be packed and/or placed in pallets in course of carriage in the vertical position, while bottles with gases - in vertical or horizontal position.
Short bottles with a 30 centimeter diameter applied in the carriage of petroleum liquid gas may be packed and/or placed in a carriage vehicle, and may be carried without pallets.
The bottles packed or placed in pallets in horizontal position have to be secured against rolling or displacing, and those packed and/or placed in pallets in vertical position, or wide bottles without pallets - have to be secured against overthrowing.
Article 15
Crates applied in the carriage of dangerous substances have to be easily discernible and marked off with adequate danger indication labels.
The crates with receptacles manufactured of fragile material have to be marked off with labels indicating the fragility of the receptacles and, if necessary, the position of the crates in course of carriage.
Article 16
Empty uncleaned receptacles used for storage of dangerous substances have to be closed and marked off in the way otherwise used when they are full of the dangerous substance.
Transportation means used in the carriage of receptacles referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article have to be marked off in the same way as the transportation means used in the carriage of receptacles filled up with the dangerous substance.
Article 17
Loading and unloading of dangerous substances (loading, unloading, reloading, pouring off, unloading, discharging of liquid, safe-keeping and other handling procedures relating to loading or unloading) may be performed only at specially designated places where they do not present a risk for life and health of people, environment or material goods and/or safety of traffic.
The place the loading or unloading of dangerous substances is performed in has to be supplied with prescribed installations and equipment, and visibly marked off by an adequate indication of danger.
Article 18
The agency in charge in the republic and/or the agency in charge in the autonomous province shall lay down, at railway stations, harbors and piers, and airports where the loading or unloading of dangerous substances is carried out, a special place for effecting the loading and the unloading of such substances.
Article 19
There shall be no admittance to a place of carrying out of loading or unloading of dangerous substances, to persons not taking part directly in the loading or unloading of these substances.
Article 20
The following shall be prohibited in the place of loading or unloading of dangerous substances:
1) holding of matters and equipment which may cause fire or make possible its spreading;
2) holding of open flame or working with an open flame (welding and the like);
3) smoking and applying ignition means (matches, cigarette-lighters);
4) applying installations or means having a fire-box;
5) working with tools or installations emitting sparks;
6) installing overhead power lines, regardless of voltage;
7) running of motor vehicles.
Article 21
Loading and unloading of dangerous substances, as a rule, shall be performed during the day.
If loading and unloading of dangerous substances is performed in the night, the lighting at the place of the loading and the unloading has to be electric, and the electric installations have to be manufactured so as not to be apt to cause fire or explosion.
Article 22
Installations for loading and unloading of dangerous substances have to be free from defects, so that any possibility be excluded of leaking and/or flowing out or spilling of the dangerous substance, and shall be constructed in such a manner so as not to impair the packing material of the dangerous substance.
Article 23
A place of performing the loading or unloading of explosive substances, gases and flammable dangerous substances has to be supplied by fire extinguishing apparatus and other devices for the purpose.
Article 24
A closed place where loading or unloading is performed of dangerous substances which evolve gases, or the one of loading or unloading of radioactive substances - has to be supplied with at least one apparatus for measuring gas concentration in the air and/or radioactivity in such a place.
Gas concentration measuring apparatus and/or those for radioactivity measuring must be regularly inspected and gauged.
Article 25
Enterprises and other legal entities performing the loading and unloading of dangerous substances shall be particularly obliged to control the fitness of devices and electric installations in the places of loading or unloading of dangerous substances, to organise physical safeguarding of these places, and to take care of technical fitness of equipment and other fire extinguishing appliances in these places.
Article 26
Cisterns and other transportation means used for the carriage of a flammable liquid whose ignition point is under 55oC, flammable gas in receptacles which are filled on the vehicles, or used in carrying other flammable substance whose ignition point exceeds 55oC - if out of technological reasons in the course of handling such substances have to be warmed at a temperature exceeding four fifths of its ignition point, as well as vehicles used for carrying of dangerous substances of the classes 1a, 1b, 1c, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1 and 5.2, must in the course of loading or unloading of these substances be grounded, and the silencer exhaustion pipe must be equipped with a spark catcher.
In the course of loading, unloading or reloading of liquids or gases referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article, the running of engine and vehicle heating installations must be stopped, unless the engine of the transportation means is used as a motive power for pumps or other loading or unloading devices.
Article 27
Enterprises and other legal entities and individuals handing over a dangerous substance to be carried, or carrying it by their own means of transportation, shall be obliged to prepare the dangerous substance so that it meets all the requirements prescribed for its carriage.
A dangerous substance shall not be handed over or received for carriage if requirements prescribed for its carriage are not fulfilled.
Article 28
The importation of waste of dangerous substances of foreign origin, for the purpose of temporary or permanent disposal in the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, shall be prohibited.
The agency in charge in the republic and/or the autonomous province may prohibit the carriage of particular kinds of dangerous substances across a specific area, or order that these kinds of dangerous substances be carried only by a specific kind of transportation means.
Article 29
Means of transportation used in the carriage of dangerous substances have to be technically fit, manufactured, equipped and marked off in conformity with the prescribed standards.
Article 30
Dangerous substances shall not be handed over or received for carriage as a luggage.
By exception to the provision specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, carried as luggage may be apparatus, appliances and other similar objects which contain a minimal quantities of dangerous substance that do not constitute danger for the surroundings and which serve for personal use (cigarette-lighters, matches, lacquers and the like).
Article 31
Enterprises and other legal entities and individuals performing carriage of dangerous substances, in case of missing of a dangerous substance in the course of carriage, shall be obliged to take necessary measures to locate it, and to notify of the danger constituted by the dangerous substance the nearest sanitary inspection agency or the nearest militia station and, if necessary, the general public as well.
Article 32
Slipped out or in any other way scattered dangerous substances in the course of carriage have to be secured, gathered or eliminated by the carrier, who shall put them into places designated for the purpose, or make them harmless in some other way, while notifying appropriately the nearest militia station and, if necessary, the nearest sanitary inspection agency.
Should the carrier be unable to gather the spilled out or scattered dangerous substances, or to put them into a designated place, or neutralise them in some other way, the administrative agency in charge shall call an enterprise possessing technical means for executing such a task, to perform it for the account of the carrier
The places referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall be designated by the agency in charge in the republic and/or the autonomous province.
Article 33
A consignor handing over a dangerous substance for carriage shall be obliged to issue, for each shipment of a dangerous substance, a document of carriage and an instruction relating to special safety measures to be taken in the course of carriage of the dangerous substance, and to hand these documents over to the carrier.
The document of carriage of a dangerous substance must contain:
1) particulars relating to the kind of dangerous substance (chemical, technical and commercial name of the dangerous substance, the class it belongs to and ordinal number in such class, as well as the identification number from the corresponding international treaty, if there is any);
2) particulars relating to the quantity of dangerous substance (gross and net mass, number of pieces and the like);
3) consignor's statement that the requirements prescribed for the carriage of a given dangerous substance are fulfilled;
4) registered and/or personal name, address and telephone number of the consignor and the consignee;
5) a statement indicating that an instruction in writing, too, relating to special safety measures to be obligatory taken in the course of carriage of dangerous substance, has been enclosed to the document of carriage and handed over to the carrier;
6) signature and seal of the consignor.
By exception to the provision specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, the document of carriage of a dangerous substance shall not be issued where a consignment note or another carriage document contains all the particulars relating to the dangerous substance, which are specified in paragraph 2 of the present Article.
Article 34
The document of carriage of a dangerous substance that is forwarded abroad must be written in one of the languages of the peoples of Yugoslavia, and in English, French, Russian or German language.
If a dangerous substance is forwarded to a country bordering on the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the document of carriage of dangerous substances may be written in one of the languages of the peoples of Yugoslavia and in the language of that country.
Article 35
The document of carriage of a dangerous substance shall be issued in three identical copies, one of which shall remain with the consignor, one shall be sent to the carrier, and one to the consignee of the dangerous substance.
A person operating the means of transportation used in the carriage of a dangerous substance shall be obliged to possess a document of carriage of the dangerous substance, a certificate relating to the fitness of the vehicle, a license as to professional qualification for operating such a vehicle, and an instruction regarding special safety measures.
Article 36
The instruction relating to special safety measures to be taken in the course of carriage shall particularly contain:
1) indication as to the kind of danger, characteristic of the dangerous substance, and of the consequences likely to be caused by it;
2) indication as to special measures to be taken in the course of carriage of a dangerous substance for preventing and/or attenuating damaging consequences that may take place due to an accident or misfortune involving the transportation means (fire, breakage of packing material, spilling or flowing out of dangerous substance and the like);
3) procedure to be applied regarding a person coming in contact with a dangerous substance;
4) name, address and the telephone number of the enterprise or the name and telephone number of the agency which must notify of the accident or the misfortune in the course of carriage of dangerous substance.
Article 37
A carrier and a person operating the transportation means carrying a dangerous substance shall be obliged to confirm, by their signature on the face of the document of carriage of dangerous substance, the acceptance of the declared dangerous substance for carriage.
Article 38
A carrier or a person operating the transportation means carrying the dangerous substance, who becomes aware that he is carrying a dangerous substance whose carriage is prohibited, shall be obliged to immediately discontinue the carriage of the dangerous substance, and shall notify thereof the nearest militia station and the consignor.
The consignor of the dangerous substance specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall be obliged, immediately after receiving the notification on discontinuing the carriage, to take over the dangerous substance and to take corresponding measures of preventing the hazards to health of people, the environment and the goods.
Article 39
A carrier or a person operating the transportation means carrying a dangerous substance who in the course of carriage finds out that he is carrying a dangerous substance which fails to meet the requirements prescribed for the carriage, or which is not declared as a dangerous substance, or is incorrectly declared, shall be obliged to immediately discontinue further carriage of the dangerous substance, and to notify thereof the consignor.
The consignor of a dangerous substance specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, immediately after being notified of the discontinuance of carriage, shall be obliged to eliminate the defects found, or take over the dangerous substance.
III SPECIAL SAFETY MEASURES DURING THE CARRIAGE OF SPECIFIC KINDS OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES
Article 40
Loading and unloading of explosive substances out of the space occupied by the enterprise manufacturing these substances or keeping them for its regular activity may be performed only in the places designated by the agency in charge in the republic and/or the autonomous province.
Article 41
An approval shall be necessary for the carriage of explosive substances.
The approval for the carriage of explosive substances in internal traffic shall be issued by the agency in charge in the republic and/or the autonomous province out of which the shipment is to be forwarded, and for the carriage across the border or the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (import, export and transit) - the federal agency of administration in charge for internal affairs.
The approval referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall not be necessary where the carriage of explosive substances is performed for the needs of the Armed Forces of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and with a military escort.
Article 42
A request for issuing the approval for the carriage of explosive substances shall be submitted by the consignor of the explosive substance.
The request specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall contain:
1) registered name and/or personal name and address of the consignor;
2) kind, technical name, quantity and the manner of packing of the explosive substance;
3) marginal file number of the explosive substance in the dangerous substances nomenclature of the corresponding international agreement covering the matter of carriage of dangerous substances;
4) registered name and address of the manufacturer of the explosive substance;
5) registered name and/or personal name and the address of carrier;
6) date and approximate hour of the commencement of the carriage, itinerary and the final carriage destination point;
7) indication of the kind and the designation of the transportation means;
8) registered name and/or personal name and the address of the consignee;
9) special safety measures to be applied in the course of carriage of the explosive substance;
10) the indication of the entry or the exit border crossing and of the time of performing the carriage of the explosive substance through the border crossing and/or across the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Article 43
The agency in charge of issuing the approval for the carriage of explosive substances (Article 41, paragraph 2), as the need be, may order the undertaking of special safety measures, too, in the course of carriage of a specific explosive substance (itinerary, escorting by the consignor or carrier, the escort by the militia officers and the like).
The the agency specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article which orders the undertaking of special safety measures in the course of carriage of a specific explosive substance, the final carriage destination point of which is situated in the territory of another republic and/or autonomous province, shall be obliged to notify about the need for undertaking special safety measures the agency of internal affairs of the republic and/or autonomous province across whose territory the carriage of the explosive substance has to be performed.
The costs of special safety measures specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article in the internal traffic shall be borne by the consignor of the explosive substance, and in the case of import, export or transit of the explosive substance - by the carrier.
Article 44
Where a considerable quantity of explosive substances is agreed upon by contract, which cannot be carried across the border of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by a single transportation means, nor simultaneously by using several transportation means, the approval for the carriage may be issued for the entire quantity of the explosive substances. In such a case, the carriage of the entire quantity of the explosive substances must be effected across the same border crossing, and within the time limit which may not exceed three months.
Article 45
Explosive substances and devices for their initiating shall not be carried jointly in the same space of a transportation means.
The provision specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall not apply to the carriage of objects filled with explosive substances in which the ignition devices are built in during the manufacturing process (ammunition, anti-hail rockets, agricultural ammunition and the like), as well as to joint carriage of explosives up to 50 kilograms (except for the explosive marked as 9a and 10a in the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Transport, the necessary quantity of the detonating fuse for such an explosive and 200 detonators at the maximum, provided that the detonators be packed in the original packing material and that the explosive is separated from the detonators).
Explosive substances shall not be carried in driver's cab and in the space of the transportation means intended for the transport of person
Article 46
Enterprises and other legal entities and individuals carrying explosive substances shall be obliged to notify, without delay, the nearest militia station about the disappearance of any quantity of the explosive substance occurring in the course of carriage.
Article 47
Receptacles designated for the carriage of a specific gas may be filled also with another kind of gas, provided that the minimum test pressure for such a gas shall not exceed the test pressure otherwise tested for the receptacle, and that the name of the gas and the maximum permitted weight of the filling be inscribed on the receptacle, while taking in consideration in the process the corresponding safety measures required by the properties of a particular gas.
Article 48
Receptacles used in the carriage of gases have to be supplied with correct valves. The valves of these receptacles must be protected by a safety cap or safety ring, and hermetically closed in the course of carriage.
Article 49
Carriage of receptacles filled with gases, as a rule, shall be performed in open transportation means, in which the load has to be protected against damaging atmospheric influences, except for the receptacles that are manufactured from material resistant to atmospheric influences.
Carriage of receptacles filled with gases may be performed in closed transportation means if they are supplied with ventilating installation or if permanent airing is made possible.
Personnel of the transportation means applied in the carriage of poisonous gases and other dangerous substances evolving steam and gases detrimental to health, must have, in the course of carriage, an adequate personal safety equipment.
Article 50
Receptacles used in the carriage of flammable liquids must meet technical requirements prescribed for the respective kind of flammable liquids.
If flammable liquids are carried in metal barrels or metal bottles, these barrels and bottles must be manufactured according to the Yugoslav standard and/or according to a foreign or international standard that is not contrary to the Yugoslav standards.
Article 51*
An approval shall be necessary for the carriage of poisons across the border or the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (import, export, transit) that is issued by the federal agency in charge of health-care services, in concordance with the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs.
As an exception, small quantities of poison intended for laboratory and scientific purposes may be carried across the state border or the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia without the approval specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article.
The federal agency of administration in charge of health-care services shall prescribe what quantity shall be considered a small quantity intended for laboratory and scientific purposes.
Poisons shall not be carried within a same loading space with foodstuffs, animal feedingstuffs, medicaments and objects of general use that are subject to sanitary supervision.
Article 52
An approval shall be necessary for the carriage of poisons in internal traffic.
The approval for the carriage of poisons referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall be issued by the agency in charge in the republic and/or the agency in charge in the autonomous province the shipment has been forwarded from.
The approval referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall not be necessary if the carriage of poisons is performed for the needs of the Armed Forces of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and with the military escort.
Article 53
The agency in charge for issuing the approval for the carriage of poisons may order, if necessary, the undertaking of special safety measures in the course of carriage of a specific poison (itinerary, escorting by the consignor or carrier, by the militia or the sanitary inspector).
Members, tasks and the outfit of the team made for the purpose of technical escort by the consignor or carrier in the course of carriage of poisons shall be regulated by the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge for the health-care services.
The agency, referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article, ordering the undertaking of safety measures in the course of carriage of a specific poison whose final destination is in the territory of another republic and/or autonomous province, shall be obliged to notify about the undertaking of special safety measures the agency in charge for sanitary inspection affairs in the republic and/or autonomous province across whose territory the carriage of the poisons should be performed.
Costs of the special safety measures specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article in internal transport shall be borne by the consignor of poison.
Article 54
The request for issuing the approval for the carriage of poisons shall be submitted by the consignor of the poisons.
The request specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall contain:
1) registered name and/or personal name and the address of the consignor;
2) registered name and/or personal name and the address of the carrier;
3) name and quantity of poison, the manner of packing of the poison and the identification number;
4) indication of the kind and marking of the transportation means;
5) registered name and/or personal name and the address of the recipient;
6) date and the approximate hour of the commencement of carriage;
7) itinerary of the transportation means.
The consignor shall be obliged to enclose to the request specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, the instruction relating to special safety measures in the course of carriage of poison.
Article 55
Should dissipation or flowing off of the poison take place in the course of carriage due to damage to the transportation means or out of other reasons, which involves a danger of contamination of the environment, the carrier shall be obliged to mark off in a visible way the location of poison dissipation, to notify thereof without delay the nearest sanitary inspection agency or the nearest militia station, and to prevent admittance to people and animals to such place until the arrival of the sanitary inspector and/or militia officer.
Article 56
Radioactive substances may be packed and carried only in the packing material intended for the specific kind of radioactive substances, depending on the size and intensity of the source, physical condition and other properties of the radioactive substance.
Radiation dose on the surface of the container and at a designated distance from the container, and the level of contamination on the surface of the container shall not exceed the values ordered for a specific type and category of containers, and provided for by the regulations relating to the protection against ionizing radiation and by international treaties on the carriage of dangerous substances in individual branches of traffic.
Article 57
If a radioactive substance is at the same time toxic, explosive or flammable, the safety measures that are prescribed for each of the specified kinds of hazards must be undertaken in the process of preparation for carriage of such radioactive substance as well as in the course of carriage.
Article 58
Radioactive substances shall not be carried in internal transport in the same loading space with the foodstuffs, objects in general use that are subject to health-care supervision, medicaments and animal feedingstuff.
Article 59
An approval shall be necessary for the carriage of radioactive substances.
The approval for the carriage of radioactive substances in internal transport shall be issued by the agency in charge in the republic and/or the agency in charge in the autonomous province the shipment has been forwarded from, and for the carriage across the border and/or the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (import, export, transit) - the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care services, in concordance with the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs.
Agencies referred to in paragraph 2 of the present Article, as the need be, may order the undertaking of special safety measures in the course of carriage of a specific radioactive substance (itinerary, escorting by the consignor or carrier, escort by the militia officers and the like).
Costs for performing of measures specified in paragraph 3 of the present Article in internal transport shall be borne by the consignor of the radioactive substance, and in case of import or transit of the radioactive substance - by the carrier.
The approval referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall not be necessary if the carriage of radioactive substances is performed for the needs of the Armed Forces of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and with a military escort.
Article 60
An approval for a repeated carriage may be granted to an enterprise or another legal entity whose activity is connected with the use of a radioactive substance, for the carriage of such substance, and within a period of validity of six months.
The approval specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article must contain the indication as to the quantity of the radioactive substance and/or the number of ionizing radiation sources and their total activity that may be carried jointly by the specific transportation means.
The enterprise or another legal entity shall be obliged, 24 hours before the commencement of the carriage of radioactive substance, at the latest, to forward to the agency in charge in the republic and/or autonomous province a notification which shall contain:
1) kind and license plate number of the transportation means to be used in the carriage of the radioactive substance;
2) number and date of the issued approval for the carriage;
3) kind and quantity of the radioactive substance and/or number of sources and their total activity;
4) personal data relating to persons who are going to perform the carriage of the radioactive substances;
5) time an place of commencement of the carriage of the radioactive substance;
6) itinerary of the transportation means;
7) time of arrival of the transportation means carrying the radioactive substance to the location of use, and the name and/or registered name and address of the user.
Article 61
The request for issuing an approval for the carriage of radioactive substances shall be submitted by the consignor of the radioactive substance.
The request specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall contain:
1) registered name and/or personal name and the address of the carrier, and if the carriage is performed across the border of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the registered name and/or personal name of the importer and/or exporter of the radioactive substance;
2) registered name and the address of the enterprise which has performed the packing of the shipment;
3) registered name and the address of the manufacturer of the radioactive substance;
4) name of the kind and technical bane of the radioactive substance;
5) intensity of the source and the manner of measuring the radioactive substance (total and singular activity);
6) indication of the transportation means (plane, railway, ship, road vehicle);
7) itinerary of carriage from the place of handing over of the radioactive substance to the location of its use;
8) name of the entry and exit border crossing, if the carriage is performed across the border of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia;
9) registered name and/or personal name and the address of the consignee;
10) date and the approximate time of commencement of carriage.
The consignor shall be obliged to enclose to the request specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article the following:
1) transcript of the approval for manufacture, trade and use of radioactive substance which is to be carried;
2) attestation relating to packing material for the radioactive substance;
3) instruction relating to special safety measures in the course of carriage of the radioactive substance;
4) special safety outfit list.
Article 62
Radioactive substances that, in the event of an accident or misfortune, may cause contamination or bringing into danger the environment through radiation, shall be carried with the escort by a person qualified in handling such substances.
Article 63
In the case of dissipation of radioactive substance, the carrier shall be obliged to mark off in a visible manner the spot of dissipation and, until the arrival of a qualified person, to prevent admittance to people and animals to such location.
Should in the course of carriage a radioactive substance become dissipated or should it disappear, the carrier shall be obliged to notify thereof, without delay, the nearest militia station and, if possible, the nearest sanitary inspection agency as well.
IV SPECIAL SAFETY MEASURES IN THE CARRIAGE OF DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES ACCORDING TO BRANCHES OF TRANSPORT
Article 64
Applicable to the carriage of dangerous substances in the sphere of road transport, in addition to safety measures relating to the carriage of dangerous substances that are prescribed by the present Law, shall also be the provisions of the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in the Road Transport.
Article 65
There shall be no other persons except the driver, codriver and the escort in the motor vehicle used in the carriage of a dangerous substance.
Article 66
In the motor vehicle carrying dangerous substances, in addition to a driver, there shall be also a codriver in the cases provided for by the European Agreement on the Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Transport.
Article 67
There shall be no substances that may cause fire in the motor vehicle carrying dangerous substances.
There shall be no repairing of a vehicle loaded with dangerous substances that, due to spark emitting or shocks, may cause fire or explosion, or impair the packing material.
There shall be no smoking in the cabin of a vehicle carrying dangerous substances falling in classes 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1 and 5.2.
Article 68
A driver of a motor vehicle carrying dangerous substances shall be obliged to drive the vehicle with particular cautiousness.
The movement speed of the motor vehicle carrying dangerous substances may not exceed 80 percent of the highest permitted speed specified according to the kind of road and/or specified by traffic signs installed along the road, and in any case shall not exceed 70 kilometers per hour, and in case of poisons - 60 kilometers per hour.
Article 69
Beginning with the moment of commencement of handing over the dangerous substance, a driver of the motor vehicle shall not leave the vehicle used in the carriage of the dangerous substance.
By exception to the provision of paragraph 1 of the present Article, the driver of the motor vehicle may leave the vehicle used in the carriage of dangerous substance only after leaving the vehicle under the supervision of the codriver or the escort, and/or after parking the vehicle in a controlled and adequately equipped parking lot.
Requirements specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to a vehicle used for the carriage of dangerous substance that, in terms of the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Transport, are not subject to special requirements relative to parking.
Article 70
Every accident or misfortune occurring in the course of carriage of dangerous substances, whose consequences are impossible to be eliminated by the motor vehicle crew alone, or due to which the ride cannot be continued, shall be reported without delay by one of the crew members to the nearest militia station.
If only a driver is present in a motor vehicle with dangerous substances that underwent an accident or a misfortune, a person who happens to be on the spot of accident or misfortune, or a person coming the first to the scene, shall be obliged, at the request of the driver, to notify thereof the nearest militia station.
Article 71
Dangerous substances may be transported by motor vehicles and trailers specially constructed for carriage of particular dangerous substances, or by vehicles that meet the requirements set forth by the present Law and the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic.
Dangerous substances may be carried in internal transport also by delivery vans whose loading space is separated from the space for passengers by a permanently fixed partition.
By exception to the provisions specified in paragraphs 1 and 2 of the present Article, the carriage, distribution or delivery by day, and in good visibility conditions, of small quantities of dangerous substances that are defined in the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic, except for the radioactive ones, may be performed also by a passenger car, a tractor with trailer, a horse-drawn vehicle, freight tricycle with or without engine, a handcart or on pack animals.
Radioactive substances may be carried also by transportation means referred to in paragraph 3 of the present Article if so approved by the agency in charge in the republic and/or the autonomous province.
The official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs shall prescribe the quantities of dangerous substances that may be transported by vehicles specified in paragraph 3 of the present Article.
Article 72
Vehicles for transporting dangerous substances, flammable gases and/or flammable liquids with the ignition temperature under 55oC should have an electricity neutralising installation - static electricity drag off, which, prior to loading or unloading of dangerous substances, should be hooked on the grounding installation.
Vehicles for transporting of dangerous substances falling in classes 1 through 5.2 should be connected through electro-plate into a single-power whole. Electro-plate connections and installations for electricity neutralising (static electricity drag off) should be checked prior to loading and/or unloading.
Vehicles for transporting of dangerous substances falling in classes 1 through 5.2 should be equipped with an installation for dragging off of the static electricity to the roadway, and with two tablets for buckling the grounding at the rear side of the vehicle (left, right).
Vehicles for transporting dangerous substances should be equipped with a corresponding circuit breaker for switching off of all electric circuits (only a tachograph may be directly hooked on). The use of circuit breakers for vehicles, specified as such in this respect by the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic, should be made possible from two spots, and for all other vehicles from one or two spots.
Article 73
A vehicle carrying dangerous substances must have two signs for marking off of vehicles used for the carriage of dangerous substances.
Should a dangerous substance which is transported be indicated on the B5 List of the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic, the signs for marking off of vehicles used for the carriage of dangerous substances must include identification numbers of a dangerous substance being transported.
The signs for marking off of vehicles used for the carriage of dangerous substances, the identification numbers of specific dangerous substances, as well as spots for placing the signs on the vehicle, have to be accomplished in conformity with the provisions of the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic.
The provisions specified in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of the present Article shall apply also in the event unwashed receptacles, previously filled with dangerous substances, are transported by a motor vehicle.
Article 74
If dangerous substances are carried by transportation means referred to in Article 71, paragraph 3 of the present Law, instead of the sign for marking off of vehicles used for transporting of dangerous substances, a pennon may be used of the same form, dimensions and colors, which has to be placed on a visible sport on the vehicle.
Article 75
A motor vehicle and a trailer used for transporting radioactive substances must have, instead of the sign for marking off of vehicles used for transporting dangerous substances, three warning symbols for marking off of vehicles used for transporting of radioactive substances.
Warning symbols for marking off of vehicles used for transporting radioactive substances shall be placed on lateral sides and on the rear side of the motor vehicle and the trailer.
Article 76
A motor vehicle used for transporting dangerous substances, in addition to equipment specified by the general regulations and the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic, must also have the following equipment:
1) driver's tool set and the car jack;
2) at least two fire-extinguishing appliances, one of which is for extinguishing fire of the engine, and the other for extinguishing fire on the load on the vehicle, and with such a charge which, considering the quantity and other properties of dangerous substance, shall make possible efficient extinguishing of fire;
3) two hand battery-powered electric lamps with flickering or steady light of orange color, which is visible at least from a 150 meter distance;
4) two signs serving to mark off a car stopped on the roadway;
5) two pennons for marking off of vehicles for carrying dangerous substances;
6) two shovels and one pick;
7) portable lamp which may be connected to the car battery and which is manufactured in such a way as to exclude the possibility of causing explosion or fire.
In addition to the equipment referred to in paragraph 1, items i through iv and items vi and vii of the present Article, a motor vehicle which is used for transporting of radioactive substances must have:
1) a radiation control device and the means for protection and marking off of the ground;
2) two pennons for marking off of vehicles used for transporting of radioactive substances.
Article 77
If dangerous substances are transported by a trailer having on whatever axle single wheels, such trailer must have a special device which, by means of a sound or light signal, shall warn the driver on a decrease of pressure in a tire, exceeding 20 percent in whatever wheel of the trailer.
A trailer used for transporting dangerous substances, if not supplied with brakes that automatically break in the event of unhooking of the trailer, must be tied with the hauling vehicle and supplied with chains.
Article 78
A motor vehicle carrying dangerous substances may move only along the roads that are specified for the traffic of such vehicles.
Motor vehicles carrying dangerous substances may stop and park only in places that are specified and marked off for such kind of vehicles.
The agency in the republic and/or the autonomous province shall specify the roads referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article, and the parking places referred to in paragraph 2 of the present Article.
A driver who, due to a defect on the vehicle, traffic accident, loading or unloading, or due to some other justified reason, is compelled to stop the vehicle with dangerous substance on the roadway or on the parking lot in a settlement, shall be obliged to undertake all measures necessary to avoid danger for other vehicles from the stopped vehicle, and shall particularly warn thereof the participants in traffic:
1) by day and by night - by setting behind the stopped vehicle two signs by which to mark off the stopped motor vehicle on the roadway;
2) by night and in the conditions of decreased visibility due to unfavorable atmospheric or other circumstances - by setting the lamps specified in Article 76, paragraph 1, item 3 of the present Law;
3) by directing the codriver or the escort of the shipment to warn, at the distance between 100 to 150 meters behind the stopped vehicle, the drivers coming along the side of the roadway on which the vehicle is stopped, to stop their vehicles or slow down in order to prepare for a safe bypassing of the stopped vehicle - by day, by using a pennon for marking off vehicles used for transporting dangerous substances, and at night and in the conditions of bad visibility, by applying a lamp.
The signs and the lamps referred to in paragraph 2, items 1 and 2 of the present Article shall be set at a distance of at least 50 meters from the vehicle, and in such way as to be discernible from a distance of at least 150 meters, for motor vehicle drivers coming along the same side of the roadway where the vehicle is stopped.
Article 79
Regulations relating to the carriage of dangerous substances in road traffic, to training of drivers of motor vehicles intended for the carriage of dangerous substances, and of other persons taking part in such carriage (preparation of dangerous substances for transportation, loading, reloading, unloading and manipulations along the road) and to technical requirements that have to be met by enterprises which are engaged in professional training of these persons, shall be enacted by the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs, in agreement with the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of traffic and communications affairs, and the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs.
Article 80
In addition to safety measures covering the carriage of dangerous substances, which are prescribed by the present Law, in the matter of carriage of dangerous substances in the railway traffic, the provisions of the International Book of Rules of Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Railways shall also apply.
Article 81
Dangerous substances shall not be carried by railway cars which are carrying passengers.
Article 82
Railway transport enterprises shall be obliged to provide the keeping safe of dangerous substances carried by them, from the moment of receiving until the moment of delivering of these substances.
Article 83
Railway cars loaded with dangerous substances may be maneuvered only after taking corresponding safety measures beforehand.
Railway transport enterprises shall enact uniform safety measures in course of maneuvering with railway cars referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article.
Article 84
Railway cars and cisterns loaded with dangerous substances shall be combined into trains under the conditions and in the way as specified by uniform rules to be enacted by railway transport enterprises.
The regulations relating to carriage of dangerous substances in railway traffic shall be enacted by the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of traffic and communications affairs, in agreement with the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs and the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs.
3. Internal Navigation Waterways Carriage
Article 85
In addition to safety measures which are prescribed by the present Law, the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of Human Life at Sea which refer to the carriage of dangerous substances, too, shall respectively apply to the carriage of dangerous substances on internal navigation waterways.
The regulations relating to the manner of effecting the carriage of dangerous substances on internal navigation waterways shall be enacted by the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of traffic and communications affairs, in agreement with the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs, and the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs.
Technical rules relating to fitness of ships for the carriage of dangerous substances on internal navigation waterways shall be enacted by the Yugoslav Ship Registry.
Article 86
Dangerous substances may be carried on the internal navigation waterways by freight ships or tankers that are intended for the purpose.
By exception to the provision specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, dangerous substances may be carried also by passenger ships if these substances are placed in spaces separated from passengers.
Dangerous substances may be carried from one bank to another bank by ferry, provided the passengers are not allowed on the ferry in course of such carriage.
Article 87
Small quantities of dangerous substances needed for households or building sites may be distributed and delivered also by boats and navigable devices.
Article 88
In the course of loading of dangerous substances on board of a ship or a tanker, and in the course of cleaning and airing of the ship or the tanker used for carriage of dangerous substances, smoking shall be prohibited, which applies also to the use of fire and other means that may cause sparkling, fire or explosion.
Smoking out of residential quarters on tankers carrying explosive or flammable substances shall be prohibited, which applies also to the use of fire and other means that may cause sparkling, fire or explosion, while in the course of loading and unloading of these substances, and in the course of cleaning of the tanker, these actions shall be prohibited also in the residential quarters on the tanker.
Article 89
Flammable liquids may be carried on internal navigation waterways only by tankers that are especially constructed for the carriage of these liquids.
By exception to the provision specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, flammable liquids may be carried also by freight ships, if the packing material is manufactured from unbreakable material.
Article 90
The provisions of Article 88 of the present Law shall refer also to thrusters and other navigable objects that are combined in the thrusting system, if at least one tanker is included in the system.
Article 91
Should dangerous substances be carried by the same ships, partially in the the internal navigation waterways traffic, and partially in the maritime traffic, the regulations shall apply which are in force for the carriage of dangerous substances in maritime traffic.
Article 92
Ships loaded with dangerous substances may spend winter in winter harbors only if all safety measures which are prescribed for the storage and safekeeping of dangerous substances can be undertaken.
Article 93
In course of the carriage of dangerous substances by sea ships, in addition to safety measures relating to the carriage of dangerous substances thath are prescribed by the present Law, the provisions shall apply, too, of the International Convention for the Protection of Human Life at Sea which refer to the carriage of dangerous substances.
Article 94
Dangerous substances may be carried by sea ships only after meeting the requirement specified in Article 86, paragraph 2 of the present Law.
Article 95
The provisions of Article 87 of the present Law shall apply in the maritime traffic as well.
Article 96
The regulations relating to the carriage of dangerous substances in maritime traffic shall be enacted by the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of traffic and communications affairs, in agreement with the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs and the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs.
Technical rules relating to the fitness of ships to be used for the carriage of dangerous substances in maritime traffic shall be enacted by the Yugoslav Ship Registry, in accordance with the provisions of the international maritime dangerous cargo code, the code of construction and equipping of ships used for the carriage of dangerous bulk chemical cargo, the code of construction and equipping of ships used for the carriage of liquid gases in ship tanks, and the international maritime signaling code.
Article 97
In course of the carriage of dangerous substances in air traffic, the provisions shall apply of the Annex 18 (safe carriage of dangerous substances by air) to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago, 1944), as well as the technical instructions enclosed to that Annex, if not contrary to the provisions of the present Law.
Article 98
Dangerous substances shall be carried in air traffic by planes earmarked for the carriage of freight, or by planes that are especially earmarked for the carriage of dangerous substances.
The carriage of dangerous substances by planes for carrying passengers shall be performed only in cases and under the conditions that are specified by international agreements relating to the carriage of dangerous goods in air traffic.
Phyrophoric radioactive liquids shall not be carried by planes.
Article 99
If radioactive substances are carried by passenger planes, shipments with these substances shall be received only at the airport of departure of the plane.
In case of the transport of radioactive substances, the consignor shall be obliged to designate a professionally qualified person who is going to handle the shipment of the radioactive substances until their bringing into the plane and/or after their taking out of the plane.
Article 100
There shall be no refueling of a plane during the loading of explosive substances into the plane or unloading them from the plane.
Article 101
Loading of dangerous substances into a plane or unloading from the plane shall not be effected during unfavorable atmospheric conditions which could cause explosion, fire, destruction or spilling out of a dangerous substance.
Article 102
Until explosive or flammable substances are stored in the plane, the space they are stored in shall not be warmed up.
Article 103
Shipments of dangerous substances may be received at a foreign airport and put on board of a plane heading towards domestic airport only if the consignor possesses a confirmation by the recipient of the shipment that it has been secured that the shipment shalll be accepted by a professionally qualified person, immediately after the landing of the plane.
Article 104
A plane that is loaded entirely with dangerous substances may fly over the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia only after obtaining a corresponding approval by the federal agency in charge of traffic and communication affairs.
The approval referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall be issued by the federal agency in charge of traffic and communications affairs, in concordance with the Federal Secretariat for National Defense, the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs and the federal agency of administration in charge of foreign affairs.
The carrier shall be obliged to indicate in the request for issuing the approval referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article, the kind and quantity of dangerous substance, the take-off airport and the airport of landing of the plane.
Article 105
If dangerous substances are carried by plane, the carrier shall be obliged to notify thereof in advance the federal agency in charge for civil air navigation affairs.
Article 106
The regulations relating to carriage of dangerous substances in air traffic shall be enacted by the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of traffic and communications affairs, in agreement with the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs, and the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs.
Article 107
It shall be prohibited to place explosive, inflammable and other dangerous substances in mail shipments and postal parcels, and receive such shipments and parcels for carrying them in postal traffic.
By exception to the provision specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, the PTT traffic enterprise may receive to carry in internal postal traffic only those dangerous substances, whose carriage in international postal traffic is permitted by the provisions of the World Postal Convention and the Arrangement on Postal Parcels.
Article 108
Postal shipments containing dangerous substances must be handled separately and, in course of transportation, they have to be separated from other postal shipments.
Article 109
Supervision over enforcement of the present Law, the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law and the international treaties shall be directly effected by agencies of administration in charge in the republics and the autonomous provinces.
In effecting direct supervision, the agencies of administration in charge specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article shall be authorised to:
1) order that irregularities found be eliminated in the specified time limit;
2) prohibit a continued carriage or handling of dangerous substances to persons having no professional qualification for the carriage and handling of dangerous substances;
3) prohibit temporarily the performance of specific actions relating to the carriage of dangerous substances (preparations for carriage, loading, reloading and unloading), should prescribed requirements relating to the place or the time for taking such an action be not fulfilled;
4) prohibit to an enterprise or other legal entity or individual -- carrier, the carriage of a dangerous substance, after finding that serious omissions in terms of taking safety measures have been committed in course of the preparations for carriage or in course of the carriage.
By exception to the provision of paragraph 1 of the present Article, the supervision over the enforcement of safety measures as prescribed by the present Law and the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law, in course of the carriage of poisonous, loathing and contagious and radioactive substances across the border of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (import, export and transit), shall be directly effected by the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs, through its sanitary inspectors who perform the sanitary supervision at the border crossings.
Article 110
The federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs shall perform inspection over conducting of procedures by a republic and/or provincial agency in charge, in the process of enforcing the provisions of the present Law, the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law and the international treaties which relate to the carriage of dangerous substances of the classes 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 8 and 9, of carrying out of measures and actions and the execution of tasks in this area, and shall effect inspection over the work of agencies in the republic and/or the autonomous province which are in charge of control of the carriage of dangerous substances across the state border of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (import, export and transit).
The federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs shall also perform inspection over the conduct of a republic and/or provincial agency in charge, in the enforcement of provisions of the present Law, the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law and the international treaties which relate to the carriage of dangerous substances of the classes 6.1, 6.2 and 7, and over the carrying out of measures and actions and the execution of tasks in this area.
The agency conducting the inspection shall be obliged to make possible to authorised worker the insight in all the matters relative to the conduct of agencies in enforcing prescribed safety measures in course of the carriage of dangerous substances, and to provide necessary data and information concerning the enforcement of the present Law, the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law and the international treaties.
Should an authorised inspection officer find that the agency conducting the inspection has failed to carry out the prescribed safety measures in course of the carriage of dangerous substances or, in effecting supervision, find other irregularities in the enforcement of the present Law, the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law and the international treaties, he shall refer the matter to the official managing the agency engaged in effecting the inspection, and shall propose the undertaking of necessary measures.
Article 111
Agencies in the republic and/or autonomous province in charge for the enforcement of the present Law, the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law and the international treaties, shall be obliged to forward to the federal agency of administration in charge the information and the reports concerning enforcement of the present Law, the regulations enacted on the ground of the present Law and the international treaties.
The official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs, in agreement with the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs, shall specify data to be included in the information and the reports referred to in paragraph 1 of the present Article, as well as the way of their forwarding.
Article 112
Agencies in the republic and/or autonomous province in charge shall establish and keep a data base relating to the kinds of dangerous substances, their properties which represent danger to life and health of people and to material goods, the measures which should be undertaken for the prevention or elimination of dangers, and to the enterprises and individuals who are able to extend assistance in eliminating the danger.
The methodology relating to the way of setting the data base concerning the dangerous substances shall be prescribed by the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs, at the proposal by the commission to be composed of representatives of the competent republic and provincial agencies of administration.
Article 113
A fine ranging from 10,000 dinars to 1.000,000 dinars shall be imposed for infraction against an enterprise or another legal entity:
1) if it performs carriage of a newly invented dangerous substance for which conditions are not specified by scientific research that provide complete safety during the carriage (Article 4);
2) if, without authorisation by the agency in charge, it performs professional education of persons who are handling and carrying dangerous substances (Article 5, paragraph 3);
3) if it fails to organise or effect control over the enforcement of measures and the meeting of requirements for the carriage of dangerous substances, or the taking of actions relating to that carriage (Article 6);
4) if it effects a joint packing or joint carriage in the same transportation means and/or the same cargo space of a dangerous substance, or carries the dangerous substance which is excluded from carriage, contrary to provisions of international agreements specified in Article 7 of the present Law;
5) if it fails to insure a dangerous substance to cover for damage inflicted on third parties due to death, injury to body or health, for damage or loss of property or pollution of the environment in course of the carriage (Article 8);
6) if the packing material used in carrying a dangerous substance fails to meet the prescribed requirements (Article 10, paragraphs 1 through 4);
7) if a receptacle used in carrying a dangerous liquid substance or a dangerous substance immerged in a liquid, or a receptacle used for the carriage of a dangerous substance solution, or a receptacle used for carrying a dangerous substance by plane, and their caps, fail to follow the prescribed requirements (Article 12);
8) if a receptacle whose volume exceeds 200 liters, used in the carriage of a dangerous liquid substance, is not manufactured from steel plate or some other appropriate material (Article 13, paragraph 1);
9) if it effects loading or unloading of a dangerous substance in the place where the operation endangers the life and health of people, material goods and the environment or traffic safety (Article 17, paragraph 1);
10) if, at a railway station, in a harbor and pier or at an airport, it effects loading or unloading of dangerous substances outside the space which is specified by the agency in charge (Article 18);
11) if it performs some of the actions specified in Article 20, paragraph 1, items i, ii, iv, v and vi at the place of loading or unloading of explosive substances or flammable dangerous substances;
12) if it fails to provide the place of loading or unloading of explosive substances, gases or flammable dangerous substances with fire-extinguishing apparatus and other appliances of the kind (Article 23);
13) if, in a closed space for loading or unloading of dangerous substances which evolve gases, or radioactive substances, it fails to install an appliance for measuring the concentration of gases in the air, and/or an appliance for measuring radioactivity in that space, or if it fails to regularly inspect and gauge these appliances (Article 24);
14) if it imports waste of dangerous substances of foreign origin for the purpose of permanent or temporary disposal in the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Article 28, paragraph 1);
15) if it carries dangerous substances by transportation means which are not technically fit or are not manufactured, equipped and marked off in conformity with the prescribed standards (Article 29);
16) if it hands over a dangerous substance, or accepts it for carriage, as a luggage, except for appliances, devices or similar objects which contain minimal quantities of dangerous substances which do not bring danger for the surroundings, and which serve for personal use (cigarette-lighters, matches, lacquers and the like) - (Article 30);
17) if it fails to immediately suspend the carriage of a dangerous substance which is excluded from carriage, or fails to notify thereof the nearest militia station and the consignor, as soon as it finds or becomes aware in another way of the fact that it is carrying such dangerous substance (Article 38, paragraph 1);
18) if, after receiving a notification on suspending the carriage of a dangerous substance which is excluded from carriage, it fails to take over that substance, or fails to undertake adequate measures to make it harmless (Article 38, paragraph 2);
19) if it fails to suspend the carriage of a dangerous substance and to notify thereof the consignor, after finding, in course of the carriage, that it is carrying a dangerous substance which does not meet the requirements prescribed for the carriage, or is not declared as a dangerous substance, or is incorrectly declared (Article 39, paragraph 1);
20) if it loads or unloads out of the place which is specified by the agency in charge, a dangerous substance whose loading or unloading is effected out of the premises of the enterprise manufacturing or holding these substances for its regular activity (Article 40);
21) if it carries an explosive substance without approval of the agency in charge (Article 41);
22) if it fails to undertake safety measures relating to the carriage of a specific explosive substance which are prescribed by the agency in charge (Article 43, paragraph 1);
23) if it fills a receptacle in course of the carriage with the kind of gas it is not intended for, while not meeting the requirement specified in Article 47 (Article 47);
24) if a receptacle in course of the carriage of a flammable liquid fails to meet technical requirements as prescribed for such kind of flammable liquid (Article 50, paragraph 1);
25) if it carries flammable liquids in metal barrels or metal bottles which are not manufactured according to Yugoslav standard or in conformity with a foreign or international standard which meets the requirements of the Yugoslav standard (Article 50, paragraph 2);
26) if it carries poison across the state border or the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (import, export, transit), without the approval by the agency in charge (Article 51, paragraph 1);
27) if it carries poison in the same loading space with foodstuffs or animal feedingstuff, or medicaments, or general consumption objects which are subject to sanitary supervision (Article 51, paragraph 4);
28) if it carries poison in the internal traffic without the approval by the agency in charge, or if in course of the carriage of poison it fails to undertake special safety measures as ordered (Article 53 and Article 54, paragraph 1);
29) if, in case of dissipation of poison, it fails to visibly mark off the place of the dissipation that has occurred, or if it fails to prevent, until the arrival of the professionally qualified person, the admittance to the place to people or animals (Article 55);
30) if it packs or carries a radioactive substance in a container which does not correspond to the specific kind of radioactive substance, or if the radiation dosage at the surface of the container exceeds the permitted one (Article 56);
31) if in course of the preparation for carriage or in course of the carriage of a radioactive substance which is at the same time explosive or flammable, it fails to undertake the safety measures which are prescribed for each of the mentioned kinds of danger (Article 57);
32) if it carries a radioactive substance in internal traffic in the same loading space with foodstuffs, or specific general consumption objects which are subject to sanitary supervision, or with medicaments or animal feeding stuff (Article 58);
33) if it carries a radioactive substance without the approval by the agency in charge, or in course of its carriage fails to undertake special safety measures as ordered (Article 59);
34) if it carries a considerable quantity of a radioactive substance and/or a number of sources of ionizing radiation whose activity exceeds the one specified in the approval, or if it fails to notify the agency in charge in the republic and/or autonomous province about the commencement of the carriage, or if the notification lacks all the information prescribed (Article 60);
35) if it carries a radioactive substance or a source of ionizing radiation which, in the event of a traffic accident or misfortune may cause contamination or endanger the environment by radiation, without the escort by a person professionally qualified for handling such substance or source (Article 62);
36) if in the case of dissipation of a radioactive substance it fails to mark off in a visible way the place of dissipation, or fails to prevent admittance to that place to people or animals until the arrival of professionally qualified persons (Article 63, paragraph 1);
37) if it carries dangerous substances by a motor vehicle which fails to meet technical requirements for the carriage of a specific dangerous substance (Article 72, paragraphs 1 and 2);
38) if it carries a dangerous substance in a railroad car together with passengers (Article 81);
39) if it fails to provide, from the moment of receiving until the moment of delivering, the safe-keeping of a dangerous substance carried by it (Article 82);
40) if it carries a dangerous substance along an internal navigable waterway by a passenger ship in the space which is not separated from the passengers, or if it carries a dangerous substance by a ferry together with passengers (Article 86, paragraphs 2 and 3);
41) if it carries a flammable liquid by a tanker which is not specially manufactured for the carriage of such liquid, or by a freight ship where the flammable liquid is packed in breakable packing material (Article 89);
42) if it carries a dangerous substance by a sea ship for passengers in the space which is not separated from passengers (Article 94);
43) if it carries a dangerous substance by a plane which is not intended for the carriage of freight, or by a plane not specially intended for the carriage of dangerous substances, or if it effects the carriage by a plane intended for passenger transport contrary to the requirements specified by the international agreement for the carriage of dangerous goods in air traffic (Article 98, paragraphs 1 and 2);
44) if it carries by plane a pyrophoric radioactive liquid (Article 98, paragraph 3);
45) if it admits in a passenger plane a radioactive substance out of the airport of departure (Article 99, paragraph 1);
46) if, in the course of carriage of a radioactive substance, it fails to provide a professionally qualified person to receive the shipment with radioactive substance until its taking into the plane and/or after taking it out of the plane (Article 99, paragraph 2);
47) if it refuels the plane during loading or unloading of an explosive substance (Article 100);
48) if it places an explosive, flammable or other dangerous substance into a postal shipment or postal parcel, or if it accepts for delivery in postal traffic such shipment or parcel (Article 107, paragraph 1);
For the acts specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, the responsible person in the enterprise or another legal entity shall be punished, too, for infraction by a fine of from 6,300 dinars to 63,000 dinars.
Article 114
A fine ranging from 8,000 dinars to 800,000 dinars shall be imposed for infraction against an enterprise or another legal entity:
1) if it orders or permits that a dangerous substance be handled by a person under age or a person not professionally qualified for the handling of such substances (Article 5, paragraph 1);
2) if it carries a dangerous substance in a receptacle, cistern, container or another kind of packing appliance for the carriage of dangerous substances, which are not manufactured in conformity with the prescribed standards relating to the corresponding class of a dangerous substance, in a receptacle made of breakable material or of non-resistant plastics, which is not placed in a safe packing and is not secured with adequate material for filling in the empty space (Article 11);
3) if it packs receptacles made of breakable material, in which a dangerous liquid substance is carried, into a group whose total mass exceeds 75 kilograms, or if it packs receptacles made of unbreakable material, in which dangerous liquid substance is carried, into a group whose total mass exceeds 150 kilograms (Article 13, paragraph 2);
4) if a place at which loading or unloading of a dangerous substance is effected is not supplied with the prescribed installations or equipment, or if it is not marked off in a visible spot by a corresponding danger indicating sign (Article 17, paragraph 2);
5) if the installation for loading or unloading of dangerous substances is not in running condition, or if it is installed in such a way as to harm the packing material used for the dangerous substance (Article 22);
6) if it fails, at the place of loading or unloading of a dangerous substance, to control the fitness of installations or electric installations, to organise physical security of these places, or fails to take care of the fitness of technical equipment and other fire-extinguishing appliances at these places (Article 25);
7) if it hands over or receives for transport a dangerous substance, or carries it by its own transportation means, without preparing the dangerous substance in concordance with the requirements specified for its carriage (Article 27);
8) if it fails to gather a dangerous substance which fell off or spilled out in course of the carriage, or to eliminate and/or strew it into the place designated for the purpose, or make it harmless in some other way, or fails to notify thereof the nearest sanitary inspection office or a militia station (Article 31);
9) if it fails to hand over to the carrier the document relating to the carriage of a dangerous substance or the instruction concerning special safety measures which must be undertaken in course of carriage of the dangerous substance (Article 33, paragraph 1);
10) if, immediately after receiving a notification about the suspension of the carriage of a dangerous substance, it fails to eliminate the defects found, or to take over the dangerous substance (Article 39, paragraph 2);
11) if it carries an explosive substance and means for its ignition into the same space of a transportation means (Article 45);
12) if there is no codriver in a motor vehicle carrying a dangerous substance, in cases as provided for by the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic (Article 66);
13) if it allows or orders that a repair be done of a vehicle loaded with a dangerous substance, which repair due to sparkling or blows may cause fire or explosion or harm the packing material (Article 67, paragraph 2);
14) if it carries a dangerous substance by a motor vehicle or a trailer which is not specially constructed for the carriage of specific dangerous substances, or by a freight vehicle which does not meet the requirements prescribed by the present Law and the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic (Article 71);
15) if it keeps a ship loaded with a dangerous substance within a winter harbor, without applying the prescribed safety measures concerning storage and safe-keeping of dangerous substances (Article 92);
16) if it loads or unloads dangerous substances into or out of a plane in unfavorable atmospheric circumstances (Article 101);
17) if it fails to notify in advance the competent air traffic control service when carrying dangerous substances by plane (Article 105);
18) if it fails to handle separately a mail shipment containing a dangerous substance, or if in the course of transport, fails to place such shipment separately from the rest of mail shipments (Article 108);
For the acts specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article, a responsible person in the enterprise or another legal entity shall be punished for infraction by a fine ranging from 6,300 dinars to 63,000 dinars.
Article 115
A fine ranging from 6,300 dinars to 630,000 dinars shall be imposed for infraction against an enterprise or another legal entity:
1) if it fails to manufacture or inspect according to the prescribed standards the receptacles, cisterns, containers and other kind of packing appliances (Article 11, paragraph 1);
2) if it fails to pack and/or place into pallets in vertical position the bottles used in carrying dangerous substance, except for short bottles with a diameter exceeding 30 centimeters used for the carriage of petrol gas, or if it packs bottles filled with gas in horizontal position, while failing to secure them in such a way as to prevent rolling or moving around, or if it fails to secure the bottles packed in pallets in vertical position so that they may not be overthrown (Article 14);
3) if a crate used for the carriage of a dangerous substance is not visibly marked off by a danger warning label and/or label indicating the fragility of the receptacle (Article 15);
4) if it fails to close unwashed receptacles which were used for transporting dangerous substances and to mark them off in the same way as if they were full, or if fails to mark off the transportation means carrying receptacles which were full of dangerous substances in the same way as it is done with transportation means carrying receptacles filled with dangerous substances (Article 16);
5) if it loads or unloads dangerous substances at night without electric light or if electrical installations in the place of loading or unloading are not manufactured so as not to be apt to cause fire or explosion (Article 21, paragraph 2);
6) if it carries specific kinds of dangerous substances across an area which is off limits for carrying of such substances, or if it effects the carriage of a substance by transportation means whose use for carrying such substances is prohibited (Article 28);
7) if it carries dangerous substances by transportation means not technically fit or which is not manufactured, equipped and marked off in the way as prescribed by the international treaty on the carriage of dangerous substances in specific branches of traffic (Article 29);
8) if it fails, in the event of missing of a dangerous substance in course of carriage, to take measures necessary for its discovering, and to notify about its missing and the risk from such dangerous substance for general public, the nearest sanitary inspection agency or the nearest militia station (Article 31);
9) if it fails to notify without delay the nearest militia station about a quantity of explosive substance missing in course of carriage (Article 46);
10) if it carries receptacles with gas by open transportation means, without securing the cargo against atmospheric influences, or if it carries them by closed transportation means which is not fitted with ventilation appliance or a permanent airing, or if it fails to provide personnel of the transportation means with adequate personal safety equipment (Article 49);
11) if it permits the presence of persons in a vehicle carrying a dangerous substance, other than the driver, codriver and the escort (Article 65);
12) if it keeps in a vehicle carrying a dangerous substance a substance which may cause fire (Article 67, paragraph 1);
13) if a motor vehicle by which it is carrying a dangerous substance or empty uncleaned receptacles which were used for transporting dangerous substances has no signs or installations which are prescribed in Article 73 and Article 74 of the present Law;
14) if it fails to mark off a motor vehicle by which it is carrying a radioactive substance with signs for marking off of radioactive substances, or fails to place the signs on the specified spot (Article 75);
15) if a motor vehicle by which it is carrying a dangerous substance has no prescribed equipment (Article 76);
16) if a trailer whose any axle has single wheels, by which it is carrying a dangerous substance, has no special installation to warn about air pressure decrease in a tire under 80 percent (Article 77, paragraph 1);
17) if a trailer by which it is carrying a dangerous substance is not tied to the hauling vehicle by special chains as well, when not fitted with brakes which automatically break during the unhooking from the hauling vehicle (Article 77, paragraph 2);
18) if it maneuvers with railway cars loaded with a dangerous substance without previously taking the prescribed safety measures (Article 83, paragraph 1);
19) if it attaches to a train a railway car or a cistern loaded with a dangerous substance contrary to the requirements and the way as specified by the railway transport enterprise (Article 84);
20) if it accepts or puts on board a shipment with a dangerous substance at a foreign airport, while not possessing a confirmation by the consignor of the shipment that acceptance of the shipment by a qualified person, immediately after landing of the plane, has been secured (Article 103);
21) if a plane, loaded with a dangerous substance solely, flies over the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia without an approval by the agency in charge (Article 104, paragraph 1).
For the acts specified in paragraph 1 of the present Article the responsible person in the enterprise or another legal entity, too, shall be punished for infraction by a fine of from 4,200 dinars to 42,000 dinars.
Article 116
For the acts referred to in Article 113, paragraph 1, items 1 through 5 and items 8 through 39, Article 114, paragraph 1, items 1 through 8 and items 10 through 14, and Article 115, paragraph 1, items 1 through 18 of the present Law, an individual shall be punished for infraction who is personally and with own funds engaged in independent activity by a fine of from 2,100 dinars to 21,000 dinars, or by imprisonment of up to 60 days.
Article 117
A fine ranging from 2,100 dinars to 21,000 dinars or a penalty of imprisonment of up to 30 days shall be imposed against an individual:
1) if loading or unloading a dangerous substance at the place where life or health of people or material goods or the environment are brought to danger (Article 17, paragraph 1);
2) if approaching a place of loading or unloading of a dangerous substance although not taking part in the loading or unloading (Article 19);
3) if smoking or using ignition devices (matches, cigarette-lighters) or if failing to switch off the vehicle engine at the place of loading or unloading of an explosive substance of flammable dangerous substances (Article 20);
4) if during loading or unloading of flammable liquids or gases failing to ground the transportation means, or if failing, in course of loading, unloading or reloading, to switch off the engine of the transportation means by which flammable liquid or flammable gas is carried, although obliged to do so (Article 26);
5) if handing over a dangerous substance for carriage or if carrying it by own transportation means, without preparing the dangerous substance in conformity with requirements relating to its carriage (Article 27);
6) if importing waste of dangerous substances of foreign origin for the purpose of permanent or temporary disposal in the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Article 28, paragraph 1);
7) if carrying in the luggage a dangerous substance or if handing it over for carriage as a luggage, except for appliances or other similar devices containing minimal quantities of dangerous substance, which bring no danger for the surroundings and serve for personal use (cigarette-lighters, matches, lacquers and the like) - (Article 30, paragraph 1);
8) if failing, in the event of missing of a dangerous substance in course of carriage, to take measures for its recovery, and if failing to notify about the missing the nearest militia station and, as the need be, the nearest sanitary inspection agency (Article 31);
9) if failing to gather a dropped out or strewn dangerous substance and to take measures for its recovery or elimination and/or placing it in the place designated for the purpose, or to make it harmless in another way, or failing to notify thereof the nearest sanitary inspection agency or militia station (Article 32, paragraph 1);
10) if, as a person driving a transportation means by which a dangerous substance is carried, failing to possess a document relating to the dangerous substance, a certificate of vehicle fitness, an attestation as to professional qualification for operating such vehicle, or an instruction relating to special safety measures (Article 35, paragraph 2);
11) if, as a person operating a transportation means by which a dangerous substance is carried, failing to confirm, by his signature on the face of document relating to the carriage of the dangerous substance, the acceptance of the declared dangerous substance for carriage (Article 37);
12) if, as a person operating a transportation means, failing to immediately discontinue the carriage of a dangerous substance which is excluded from carriage, or if failing to notify thereof the militia station and the consignor, as soon as finding, or becoming aware in another way of the fact of carrying such dangerous substances (Article 38, paragraph 1);
13) if, as a person operating a transportation means, failing to discontinue the carriage of a dangerous substance, or if failing to notify thereof the consignor in the cases of finding that conditions do exist for discontinuing the carriage, as provided for in Article 39, paragraph 1 of the present Law;
14) if carrying an explosive substance and ignition means for its activation in the same space of the transportation means or if carrying the explosive substance in driver's cab or in the space of the transportation means carrying passengers (Article 45, paragraphs 1 and 3);
15) if failing to notify without delay the nearest militia station about a missing quantity of explosive substance during the carriage (Article 46);
16) if failing to notify without delay the nearest militia station and, if possible, the nearest sanitary inspection agency as well, about a strewn or missing radioactive substance during the carriage (Article 63, paragraph 2);
17) if, as a driver of a motor vehicle in course of the carriage of a dangerous substance, admitting to the vehicle a person who is not a codriver or an escort (Article 65);
18) if, while carrying dangerous substances, holding in the vehicle substances which may cause fire, or if repairing the vehicle loaded with dangerous substances, or smoking in the cab of the vehicle carrying dangerous substances falling in the classes 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1 and 5.2 (Article 67);
19) if, as a driver of a motor vehicle, in course of carrying dangerous substances, failing to operate the vehicle with particular cautiousness, or if driving at a speed higher than 80 percent of the permitted or prescribed speed, or if exceeding 70 kilometers per hour, and in case of poisons -- exceeding 60 kilometers per hour (Article 68);
20) if, as a motor vehicle driver, leaving the vehicle carrying dangerous substances, and if leaving the vehicle without codriver's or escort's control (Article 69);
21) if failing, as a motor vehicle crew member which vehicle is involved in an accident or a misfortune in course of the carriage of dangerous substance, whose consequences may not be eliminated by the crew alone, or due to which the ride may not be continued, to notify thereof without delay the nearest militia station (Article 70, paragraph 1);
22) if, at the request of a driver, failing to notify the nearest militia station in the event of accident or misfortune involving the vehicle carrying dangerous substances (Article 70, paragraph 2);
23) if operating, as a driver, a motor vehicle loaded with dangerous substances which is not marked off by the signs for marking off of vehicles carrying dangerous substances, or whose signs lack identification numbers, or are not made and placed in the way as provided for by the European Agreement on International Carriage of Dangerous Goods in Road Traffic (Article 73, paragraphs 1 through 3);
24) if carrying a dangerous substance by a vehicle specified in Article 71, paragraph 3 of the present Law, while failing to mark off the vehicle by a prescribed pennon placed in a visible spot (Article 74);
25) if, as a driver of a motor vehicle in course of carriage of a dangerous substance, stopping or parking the motor vehicle or trailer at the place not designed and marked off for such kind of vehicles, or failing to take measures specified in Article 78, paragraphs 1 and 4 when the vehicle has been stopped due to a defect, accident, loading or unloading, or due to other justified reasons (Article 78);
26) if during loading or unloading of a dangerous substance from a ship or tanker, or in course of cleaning and airing of the ship and/or tanker, performing an action or using a means which may cause sparkling, fire or explosion (Article 88);
27) if warming up the space of a plane in which an explosive or flammable substance is accommodated (Article 102);
28) if putting an explosive, flammable or other dangerous substance into a mail shipment or postal parcel (Article 107, paragraph 1).
VII TRANSITIONAL AND CONCLUDING PROVISIONS
Article 118
The official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs, in agreement with the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of traffic and communications affairs, and the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs, shall enact regulations relating to professional training of drivers of motor vehicles intended for the carriage of dangerous substances, and of other persons taking part in the carriage of dangerous substances, and on technical requirements to be fulfilled by enterprises engaged in professional training of these persons, within six months from the day of coming into force of the present Law.
The official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of traffic and communications affairs, in agreement with the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of internal affairs and the official managing the federal agency of administration in charge of health-care affairs, shall enact regulations relating to carriage of dangerous substances in railway traffic, within six months from the day of coming into force of the present Law.
Article 119
The provision of Article 35, paragraph 2 of the present Law, by which the obligation is specified of a person operating a transportation means used for carrying dangerous substances, to be in possession of a certificate of fitness of the vehicle and an attestation about professional qualification for operating such transportation means, and the provision of Article 78, paragraph 2 of the present Law, by which the obligation is provided that vehicles carrying dangerous substances may be stopped and parked only at places designated and marked off for that kind of vehicles, shall be applied after the expiration of one year from the day of coming into force of the present Law.
The provision of Article 112, paragraph 1 of the present Law shall become applicable, at the latest, after the expiration of three years from the day of coming into force of the present Law.
Article 120
On the day of coming into force of the present Law, the Law on Carriage of Dangerous Substances ("Official Gazette of the SFRY", No. 20/84) shall cease to be valid.
Article 121
The present Law shall come into force on the eighth day from the day of its publication in the "Official Gazette of the SFRY".
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
* On 23 May 2009, the day of coming into force the Law on chemicals ("Оfficial Herald of the Republic of Serbia", No 36/2009), the provisions of the article 51 of the Law on carriage og dangerous substances("Official Gazette of the SFRY", Nos. 27/1990 and 45/1990 - correction and "Official Gazette of the FRY", Nos. 24/1994, 28/1996 - other Law and 68/2002 and "Official Gazette of Serbia and Montenegro", No.1/2003 - Constitutional Charter, related to the approval of carriage of poisonous materials over the state border (export, import and transit), stop being valid.