G/TBT/N/RWA/246  
 
25 April 2019  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  RWANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Rwanda Standards Board  
KK 15 Rd, 49              
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda                       
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw                                                  
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Protection 
against dangerous goods (ICS 13.300)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 949:2019, 
The classification and identification of dangerous goods for road and rail transport. 
(242 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft East African Standard covers classification and 
identification of dangerous goods that are capable of posing a significant risk to health 
safety , property and the environment.  
This standard applies to road and rail modes of transport.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems  where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment; Quality 
requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• ASTM D93, Standard test methods for flash point by Pensky -Martens closed -cup 
tester  
• ASTM D240, Standard test method for heat of combustion of liquid hydrocarbon 
fuels by bomb calorimeter  
• ASTM D4359, Standard test method for determining whether a material is a 
liquid or a solid.  
• ISO 780, Packaging – Pictorial marking for handling of goods  G/TBT/N/RWA/246  
 
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  • ISO 1523, Determination of flash poi nt – Closed cup equilibrium method  
• ISO 2431, Paints and varnishes – Determination of flow time by use of flow cups  
• ISO 2592, Determination of flash and fire points – Cleveland open cup method  
• ISO 2719, Determination of flash point – Pensky -Martens closed c up method  
• ISO 3711, Lead chromate pigments and lead chromate -molybdate pigments – 
Specifications and methods of test  
• ISO 8115, Cotton bales – Dimensions and density  
• ISO 9038, Test for sustained combustibility of liquids  
• ISO 10156, Gases and gas mixtures – Determination of fire potential and 
oxidizing ability for the selection of cylinder valve outlets  
• ISO 10156 -2, Gas cylinders – Gases and gas mixtures – Part 2: Determination 
of oxidizing ability of toxic and corrosive gases and gas mixtures  
• ISO 13736, Dete rmination of flash point – Abel closed -cup method  
• ISO 13943, Fire safety – Vocabulary – Part 86.1: Affective heat of combustio  
• ISO 13943, Fire safety – Vocabulary – Part 86.2: Gross heat of combustion  
• ISO 13943, Fire safety – Vocabulary – Part 86.3: Net he at of combustion  
• NFPA 30B, Manufacture and storage of aerosol products  
• DEAS 951:2019 Transport of dangerous goods – Packaging and large packaging 
for road and rail transport  
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous 
Wastes and  their Disposal (1989)  
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Regulations for the safe transport 
of radioactive material.  
• Safery standards series No. TS -R-1. IAEA. Vienna, 2005  
• International Civil Aviation Organization. Technical instructions for the s afe 
transport of dangerous goods by air. Montreal, Quebec: ICAO, 2005 -2006 
• International Maritime Organization. International convention for safe 
containers. Edition 3. London: IMO, 1996 International Programme on Chemical 
Safety (IPCS). WHO recommended cl assification of pesticides by hazard and 
guidelines to classification. World Health Organization. Geneva, 2005 election of 
cylinder valve outlets  
• United Nations. Recommendations on the transport of dangerous goods; Manual 
of tests and criteria  
• Part I: Clas sification procedures, test methods and criteria relating to explosives 
of class 1. 6th rev. ed.New York and Geneva: UN, 2015  
• United Nations. Recommendations on the transport of dangerous goods; Manual 
of tests and criteria –Part II: Classification procedu res, test methods and criteria 
relating to self -reactive substances of division 4.1 and organic peroxides of 
division 5.2. 6th rev. ed. New York and Geneva: UN, 2015  
• United Nations. Recommendations on the transport of dangerous goods; Manual 
of tests and criteria –Part III: Classification procedures, test methods and 
criteria relating to class 2, class 3, class 4, division 5.1, class 8 and class 9. 6th 
rev. ed. New York and Geneva: UN, 2015  
• OECD Test Guidelines  
• NOTE The United Nations' Recommendations on t he transport of dangerous 
goods; Manual of tests and criteria, will be referred to as the United Nations' 
Manual of tests and criteria in the text of this standard.  G/TBT/N/RWA/246  
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be de termined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
KK 15 Rd, 49       
Toll Free: 3250         
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw   
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw   
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
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