Abstract
AbstractFor thousands of years trade has moved goods allover Europe, and once gunpowder had been invented, this trade included dangerous goods. As early as 1831 regulations were introduced for the Rhine river - the world's busiest inland waterway today - to cover the transport of those goods. Another mode of transport was added in 1890 when the foundation for the International Regulations concerning the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail was laid with the Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Rail at Berne, Switzerland. Today these regulations are known as the RID. Air transport, road transport and carriage by sea, each followed during the 1950s. These international regulatory regimes have been supplemented by national regulations; in Germany alone, for example, these amount to some 4000+ pages. Because dangerous goods regulations have been developed separately for each mode of transport, there now exist several different regulatory regimes. For Europe, these uncoordinated regulations pose a serious pr...
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