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The ADR is an agreement concerning the international carriage of dangerous goods by road (ADR), signed in Geneva on 30 September 1957, developed and published by the European Inland Transport Committee, and ratified by Poland in 1975. The ADR consists of Annexes A and B (nine parts). 
Annexes A and B of ADR are grouped into nine parts. Annex A consists of Parts 1 to 7, and Annex B of Parts 8 and 9. Each part is subdivided into chapters and each chapter into sections and sub sections. Within each part the number of the part is included with the numbers of the chapters, sections and sub-sections, for example Part 4, Chapter 2, Section 1 is numbered "4.2.1". Dangerous goods which are authorized for international carriage and the conditions attaching to them (including exemptions) particularly with regard to:

  • classification of goods, including classification criteria and relevant test methods;
  • use of packagings (including mixed packing);
  • use of tanks (including filling);
  • consignment procedures (including marking and labelling of packages and placarding and marking of means of transport as well as documentation and information required);
  • provisions concerning the construction, testing and approval of packagings and tanks;
  • use of means of transport (including loading, mixed loading and unloading).