UN/SCEGHS/30/INF.1 Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals Sub-Committee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals 9 December 2015 Thirtieth session Geneva, 9 – 11 December 2015 Item 1 of the provisional agenda Adoption of the agenda List of documents Note by the secretariat Background documents (Secretariat) ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/59 Provisional agenda for the thirtieth session ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/59/Add.1 List of documents and annotations INF.1 (Secretariat) List of documents INF.2 (Secretariat) List of documents under agenda item INF.5 (Secretariat) Provisional timetable for the thirtieth session and meetings of the GHS informal working groups ST/SG/AC.10/30/Rev.6 Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), sixth revised edition ST/SG/AC.10/1/Rev.19 Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Model Regulations, nineteenth revised edition ST/SG/AC.10/11/Rev.6 Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, sixth revised edition ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/58 Report of the Sub-Committee on its twenty-ninth session ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/94 Report of the Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods on its forty-seventh session ST/SG/AC.10/C.3/2015/CRP.3 and –/Adds.1 to 12 and CRP.4 and –/Adds.1 to Add.3 Draft report of the Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods on its forty-eighth session UN/SCEGHS/30/INF.1 Working documents (ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/-) Document –/2015/8 –/2015/9 –/2015/10 item 3 (c) 4 (c) 2 (a) –/2015/11 2 –/2015/12 2 –/2015/13 3 (e) –/2015/14 –/2015/15 –/2015/16 4 (a) 4 (b) 2 Title (IMO) Classification criteria for aspiration hazards (Sweden) Further refinement of precautionary statement P502 for explosives (Working Group on Explosives) Use of the Manual of Tests and Criteria in the contest of the GHS (DGAC) Prohibition in transport of non-transport GHS pictograms when not in a complete GHS labels (France) Round Robin testing programme – Test O.2: Test for oxidizing liquids and Test O.3: Test for oxidizing solids (Netherlands and United Kingdom) Use of non-animal testing methods for the classification of health hazards (CEFIC) Labelling of small packagings (Sweden) Amendment of precautionary statement P280 for hearing or ear protection (DGAC) GHS labels in transport on outer packagings not subject to TDG regulations Information documents INF. No. INF.1 INF.2 INF.3 INF.4 2 item 1 1 3 (e) 2 INF.5 1 INF.6 INF.7 8 2 INF.8 2 INF.9 2 INF.10 8 INF.11 INF.12 INF.13 4 (b) 2 2 INF.14 2 INF.15 3 (e) INF.16 3 (b) INF.17 4 (b) Title (Secretariat) List of documents (Secretariat) List of documents under agenda item (IMO) Classification for floaters (Belgium, Japan) Report of the Joint TDG-GHS Informal Working Group (IWG) dealing with categorization of flammable gases (Secretariat) Provisional timetable for the thirtieth session and meetings of the GHS informal working groups (Secretariat) ECOSOC Resolution 2015/7 (Belgium, Japan) Proposal for label elements for the new sub-categories arising from the revision of the criteria for flammable gases (Germany, CEFIC, EIGA) Classification criteria for flammable gases – comments on informal document INF.15 (TDG, 48th session) – INF.4 (GHS, 30th session) (Sweden) Status report on the work of the informal correspondence group on the revision of GHS Chapter 2.1 (Sweden) Information regarding on-going work on possible revision of the UN classification of ammonium nitrate based fertilizers (France) GHS Precautionary statement P502 (CEFIC) Low-burning substances and climate change (Canada) Use of the Manual of Tests and Criteria in the context of the GHS: Proposed amendments to Chapter 31 of Part III of the Manual (Canada) Use of the Manual of Tests and Criteria in the context of the GHS: Proposed amendments to Chapter 32 of Part III of the Manual (DGAC) New example for portable tanks and multi-element gas containers (MEGC's) (United States of America) Update on the work of the informal correspondence group on practical classification issues (United Kingdom) Flexibility in the use of precautionary statements UN/SCEGHS/28/INF.1 INF. No. INF.18 INF.19 item 5 (a) 3 (e) INF.20 INF.21 3 (d) 5 (a) INF.22 3 (a) INF.23 and –Add.1 INF.24 INF.25 INF.26 INF.27 2 4 (b) 4 (a) 4 (c) 7 INF.28 INF.29 4 (b) 7 INF.30 Title (Canada) Classification of chemical products in Canada (United States of America) Comments on document ST/SG/AC.10/C.4/2015/13 “use of non-animal testing methods for the classification of health hazards” (France) GHS informal working group on nanomaterials (United States of America) Assessing the potential development of a global list of classified chemicals (United States of America) Dust explosion hazards: status report and December 2015 meeting agenda (Canada) Crude oil - classification and transport issues (SAAMI) Alternative precautionary statement for disposal of explosives (CEFIC) Labelling of small packagings (USA) Further refinement of the precautionary statement for explosives (UNITAR) Activities of the UNITAR/ILO Global GHS Capacity Building Programme and UNITAR/ILO/OECD WSSD GHS Partnership (SAAMI, USA, Sweden) A suggestion for the wording of P503 for explosives (RPMASA) RPMASA awareness raising and capacity building activities in South Africa in partnership with UNITAR (Secretariat) Work of the TDG Sub-Committee on its 48th session on matters of interest to the GHS Sub-Committee 3