IMDG Code: International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code: 2010

The Code, as amended by Amendment 37-14, is mandatory as from 1 January 2016 but may be applied by Administrations in whole or in part on a voluntary basis from 1 January 2015.

The two-volume Code is divided into seven parts:

Volume 1 (parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7of the Code) contains sections on:

• general provisions, definitions and training
• classification
• packing and tank provisions
• consignment procedures
• construction and testing of packagings, IBCs, large packagings, portable tanks, ,MEGCs and road tank vehicles
• transport operations

Volume 2 contains part 3 (Dangerous Goods List, special provisions and exceptions), appendices A and B (generic and N.O.S. Proper Shipping Names, and glossary of terms) and an index.