Regulatory information disclaimer

What these pages are

General orientation for someone planning a movement of dangerous goods, compiled from public sources and published so it can be checked.

The site carries a summary for two hundred countries and every US state. Each names the frameworks that govern dangerous goods carriage there, the primary competent authority, and the sources it was drawn from. Many are also published in the local language.

What they are not

• Not legal or regulatory advice. Reading them creates no advisory relationship, and they cannot account for your cargo, its classification, quantity, packaging, route, mode or timing.
• Not a statement of our own approvals. Describing a jurisdiction’s regime says nothing about whether we hold a licence or permit in it. Where we work through partners, we say so.
• Not exhaustive. A summary of a few hundred words cannot carry a national regulatory regime. Local, port, municipal and carrier-specific rules sit underneath almost every one of them.
• Not guaranteed current. Regulations change, sometimes at short notice and sometimes without a public announcement that a summary would catch.

How they are produced

The underlying data is maintained as a single structured dataset and the pages are generated from it. That is deliberate: two hundred and fifty hand-maintained pages drift apart, and a correction applied to one of them leaves the other two hundred and forty-nine wrong.

Each entry cites the sources it was compiled from — treaty bodies, national regulators and the instruments themselves — and those links are on the page so you can go to the primary text rather than take ours for it.

Review status

Entries are not currently reviewed by a named subject-matter specialist before publication, and every page says so rather than implying an authority it does not have. TO CONFIRM: decide whether entries will carry a named reviewer, and if so who — the reviewer must be a real, qualified person who has actually read the page

When named review is introduced, each page will carry the reviewer, the review date and the next scheduled review, and this section will say so.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it — for everyone, not just for you, because the pages come from one dataset. Write to contact@hansalogistics.com with the jurisdiction and what is inaccurate. A link to the governing text is the fastest way to get it changed.

Before you rely on any of it

Confirm the current position with the competent authority named on the page, or ask us. Working out what actually governs a specific consignment on a specific route is the job, and it is one we do — see consultancy and customs, permits and compliance.