제16163호                               관                보                  2006. 1. 3. (화요일)

     or form of prepayment, whether                      1.3 radioactive materials contained in
     cancelled     or   not,   or   any     paper         letter-post items or postal parcels shall
     representing a monetary value, except                be forwarded by the quickest route,
     in cases where the item contains as an               normally by air, subject to payment of the
     enclosure a card, envelope or wrapper                corresponding surcharges;
     bearing the printed address of the                  1.4 radioactive materials may be posted
     sender of the item or his agent in the               only by duly authorized senders.
     country of posting or destination of the        2 Biological materials shall be admitted in
     original item, which is prepaid for                 letter-post items under the following
     return.                                             conditions:
8 Treatment of items wrongly admitted                    2.1 Perishable biological substances,
 8.1 The treatment of items wrongly                       infectious substances and solid carbon
   admitted is set out in the Regulations.                dioxide (dry ice) when used as refrigerant
   However, items containing articles                     for   infectious    substances      may    be
   mentioned in 2.1.1, 2.1.2 and 3.1 shall in             exchanged through mail only between
   no circumstances be forwarded to their                 officially        recognized       qualified
   destination, delivered to the addressees or            laboratories. These dangerous goods may
   returned to origin. In the case of articles            be acceptable in mail for air carriage,
   mentioned in 2.1.1 and 3.1 discovered                  subject to national legislation and current
   while in transit, such items shall be                  Technical Instructions of the International
   handled in accordance with the national                Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and as
   legislation of the country of transit.                 reflected in the IATA Dangerous Goods
Article 16                                                Regulations.
Admissible radioactive materials and                     2.2 Perishable biological substances and
biological materials                                      infectious substances made up and packed
1 Radioactive materials shall be admitted in              in accordance with the respective
 letter-post items and parcels in relations               provisions of the Regulations shall be
 between postal administrations which have                subject to the tariff for priority items or to
 declared their willingness to admit them                 the tariff for registered letters. An
 either reciprocally or in one direction only             additional charge for the handling of
 under the following conditions:                          these items is allowed.
 1.1 radioactive materials shall be made up              2.3 Admission of perishable biological
   and packed in accordance with the                      substances and infectious substances
   respective provisions of the Regulations;              shall be restricted to those member
 1.2 when they are sent in letter-post items,             countries whose postal administrations
   they shall be subject to the tariff for                have declared their willingness to admit
   priority items or the tariff for letters and           such items, whether reciprocally or in one
   registration;                                          direction only.

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