Commission Directive 2006/90/EC of 3 November 2006 adapting for the seventh time to technical progress Council Directive 96/49/EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by rail   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-11-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: approximation of laws, international transport, rail transport, transport of dangerous goods, transport safety

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Official Journal of the European Union

4.11.2006

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2006/90/EC

of 3 November 2006

adapting for
the seventh time to technical progress Council Directive 96/49/EC on the
approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous
goods by rail

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

dangerous goods by rail
1 January 2005.

(RID), as applicable from

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 96/49/EC of 23 July 1996
on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with
regard to the transport of dangerous goods by rail (1), and in
particular Article 8 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

The Annex to Directive 96/49/EC refers to the Regu-
of
lation

international

concerning

carriage

the

(2)

(3)

(4)

The RID is updated every two years. Consequently, the
next amended version shall be applicable as from 1
January 2007, with a transitional period up to 30 June
2007.

It is therefore necessary to amend the Annex to Directive
96/49/EC.

in this Directive are in
The measures provided for
conformity with the opinion of the Committee on the
transport of dangerous goods referred to in Article 9 of
Directive 96/49/EC,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

The Annex to Directive 96/49/EC is replaced by the following:

Article 1

‘ANNEX

Annex to the Regulation concerning the international carriage of dangerous goods by rail (RID) — Appendix C to
the Convention concerning international carriage by rail (COTIF), as applicable with effect from 1 January 2007.

The text of the amendments of the 2007 version of the RID will be published as soon as it is available in all official
languages of the Community.’

Article 2

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations
and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this
Directive by 1 July 2007 at the latest. They shall forthwith
communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions
and a correlation table between those provisions and this
Directive.

reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in
the field covered by this Directive.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a

Article 3

(1) OJ L 235, 17.9.1996, p. 25. Directive as

last amended by
Commission Directive 2004/110/EC (OJ L 365, 10.12.2004, p. 24).

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 3 November 2006.

For the Commission

Jacques BARROT
Vice-President