Dangerous Goods Structure Reform
The restructuring of the dangerous goods regulations ADR, ADNR, and RID was undertaken with the objective of making the regulations more logical and user-friendly and harmonizing them with the UN recommendations. Following the restructuring, it has not been necessary to modify the data model of the EH&S Dangerous Goods Management component. The effects of the restructuring are limited to the following points:
The dividing up of the above-mentioned regulations into sections using numbers in the margin beside the text has been relinquished in favor of a traditional division into chapters. For example, the information contained in the ADR under marginal 10011 is now to be found under Chapter 1.1.3.6 following the structure reform.
Every occurrence of the term marginal or corresponding abbreviations in Dangerous Goods Management is being renamed as Chapter.
In the restructured ADR, Chapter 3.2 contains Table A in which all dangerous goods are listed in order of their UN number. In Table A, the classification by means of dangerous goods letter and hazard item number previously used has been abolished and replaced by the use of the classification code.
Example: UN 2760, Arsenical pesticide, liquid, flammable, toxic
Old ADR: Item number 41, letter b, packing group II
New ADR: Classification code FT2, packing group II
Every occurrence of the term dangerous goods letter or corresponding abbreviations in Dangerous Goods Management is being renamed as classification code. The classification code also takes on the role of the dangerous goods letter in combined risk potentials.
The fields SDBC (hazard item number) and SLBE (hazard item number empty transport) have been retained for the immediate future and are ready for input. If, during filling, the system detects that a data record exists in accordance with the new regulation structure, the SDBC and SLBE fields are deleted and removed from the interface. However, they still remain in the tables so that they can react to any future changes to the regulations if and where necessary.
The modifications to the interface, field descriptions, message texts, data elements, and IMG activities necessary as a result of the structure reform will be made in your system when you import Support Package 01 for EH&S Release 2.7B. For more information, see
Implementation of the Dangerous Goods Structure Reform and SAP Note 402401.