18.1.1 — Definitions Regeling vervoer gevaarlijke stoffen door de lucht BES
Definitions
When the following terms are used in this part, they have the following meanings:
a) Acceptance: a package will be considered accepted when the acceptance checklist mentioned under 18.7.2. has been signed by the operator’s representative. The baggage of a passenger will be considered accepted by the operator at the check-in counter when the baggage label is placed on it.
b) Cargo aircraft: Any aircraft, other than a passenger aircraft, which is carrying goods or property;
c) Consignment: One or more packages of dangerous goods accepted by an operator from one shipper at one time and at one address, receipted for in one lot and moving to one consignee at one destination address;
d) Crew member: A person assigned by an operator to duty on an aircraft during a flight duty period;
e) Dangerous goods: Articles or substances which are capable of posing a risk to health, safety, property or the environment and which are shown in the list of dangerous goods in the Technical Instructions or which are classified according to those Instructions;
f) Dangerous goods accident:An occurrence associated with and related to the transport of dangerous goods by air which results in fatal or serious injury to a person or major property damage;
g) Dangerous goods incident: An occurrence, other than a dangerous goods accident, associated with and related to the transport of dangerous goods by air, not necessarily occurring on board an aircraft, which results in injury to a person, property damage, fire, breakage, spillage, leakage of fluid or radiation or other evidence that the integrity of the packaging has not been maintained. Any occurrence relating to the transport of dangerous goods which seriously jeopardizes the aircraft or its occupants is also deemed to constitute a dangerous goods incident.
i) Exception: A provision in this part which excludes a specific item of dangerous goods from the requirements normally applicable to that item;
j) Exemption: An authorization issued by the Minister providing relief from the provisions of this part;
k) Flight crew member: A licensed crew member charged with duties essential to the operation of an aircraft during a flight duty period;
l) Incompatible: Describing dangerous goods which, if mixed, would be liable to cause a dangerous evolution of heat or gas or produce a corrosive substance;
n) Operator: A person, organization or enterprise engaged in or offering to engage in an aircraft operation;
o) Overpack: An enclosure used by a single shipper to contain one or more packages and to form one handling unit for convenience of handling and stowage;
Note: A unit load device is not included in this definition.
p) Package: The complete product of the packing operation consisting of the packaging and its contents prepared for transport;
q) Packaging: Receptacles and any other components or materials necessary for the receptacle to perform its containment function;
Note: For radioactive material, see Part 2, paragraph 7.2 of the Technical Instructions.
r) Passenger aircraft: An aircraft that carries any person other than a crew member, an operator’s employee in an official capacity, an authorized representative of an appropriate national authority or a person accompanying a consignment or other cargo;
s) Pilot-in-command: The pilot designated by the operator, or in the case of general aviation, the owner, as being in command and charged with the safe conduct of a flight;
t) Serious injury: An injury, which is sustained by a person in an accident and which:
1°. requires hospitalization for more than 48 hours, commencing within seven days from the date the injury was received; or
2°. results in a fracture of any bone (except simple fractures of fingers, toes or nose); or
3°. involves lacerations which cause severe haemorrhage, nerve, muscle or tendon damage; or
4°. involves injury to any internal organ; or
5°. involves second or third degree burns, or any burns affecting more than 5 per cent of the body surface; or
6°. involves verified exposure to infectious substances or injurious radiation;
u) State of : The State in the territory of which the cargo was first loaded on an aircraft;
v) State of the Operator: The State in which the operator’s principal place of business is located or, if there is no such place of business, the operator’s permanent residence;
w) UN number: The four-digit number assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods to identify a substance or a particular group of substances;
x) Unit load device: Any type of freight container, aircraft container, aircraft pallet with a net, or aircraft pallet with a net over an igloo.
Note: An overpack is not included in this definition.
- Regeling
- Regeling vervoer gevaarlijke stoffen door de lucht BES
- Soort
- Ministeriële regeling BES
- Geldend vanaf
- 10-10-2010
- BWB-id
- BWBR0028671
- Versie
- 2010-10-10_0