In this glossary, the following terms mean:
- ADR: the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road;
- ADR Certificate of Approval / Vehicle Certificate of Approval: the certificate specified in ADR Section 9.1.3 and issued by the competent authority of the country in which the vehicle is registered, or by a body authorised by the competent authority;
- Consignee: the business to which the goods stated in the transport document, delivery note, consignment note or bill of lading are to be delivered;
- Ministry: the Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications (UBAK);
- Unloader: businesses that unload dangerous goods carried in packages or in bulk from vehicles, tanks or containers;
- Multiple-element gas container: a structure containing several sections or elements connected by a manifold and mounted on a fixed frame;
- Filler: businesses that fill dangerous goods in bulk into tanks, tankers, mobile tanks or tank-containers, battery vehicles, multiple-element gas containers, a vehicle, or a large or small container;
- Gas: the substances described in ADR Section 2.2.2.1.2;
- GBF (MSDS): the safety data sheets of dangerous goods;
- Consignor: the business that consigns dangerous goods on its own behalf or on behalf of a third party and, where the transport operation is carried out under a contract for carriage, the person named as “Consignor” in the contract;
- IATA DGR: the Dangerous Goods Regulations for the carriage of dangerous goods by air;
- IMDG Code: the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code;
- Permissible load / Carrying capacity: the maximum load weight and number of attendants that a vehicle can safely carry, as specified in its manufacturing standard;
- Business: real and legal persons, including public institutions and organisations, carrying out activities within the scope of this Regulation, whether or not for profit;
- Law: the Road Transport Law No. 4925;
- Container: a receptacle forming an item of transport equipment, made of durable material, suitable for repeated use, for transfer and stowage en route and for easy filling and emptying, and allowing carriage by more than one mode of transport while its load is kept intact;
- Built-up area: areas where people live together, such as provinces, districts, towns, villages, communal workplaces or industrial zones, and the distance of up to 500 metres from the end of these areas;
- Own vehicle: a vehicle registered in the name of the authorisation certificate holder in the vehicle registration certificate;
- Packer: businesses that put dangerous goods into various kinds of receptacles, including large packagings and intermediate bulk containers, and where necessary prepare the packages for carriage, that have dangerous goods packed, or that change the packages or labels of these goods;
- Explosive substance: the substances described in ADR Section 2.2.1;
- Relay tanker: a tanker used in the carriage of bitumen for road construction and equipped with burners to heat the bitumen in the tank or to prevent it from falling below a certain temperature;
- RID: the Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail;
- SRC5: the professional competence training certificates of drivers of vehicles that will carry dangerous goods;
- Completed vehicle: a vehicle manufactured with multi-stage type approval in accordance with the relevant legislation, or with a certificate of conformity under the Regulation on the Manufacture, Modification and Assembly of Vehicles published in the Official Gazette of 26/10/2016, No. 29869;
- Tank-container / portable tank operator: operators in whose name tank-containers, portable tanks or tankers are registered, or who operate them under a contract;
- Transport document: the document drawn up by the consignor containing the information in ADR Section 5.4.1;
- Consignment note: the document drawn up under the relevant legislation for goods or cargo of one or more consignees and of the consignor that are carried at the same time in the same vehicle by those engaged in carriage;
- Carrier: holders of C1, C2, K1, K2, L1, L2, M1, M2, M3, N1, N2, R1, R2 authorisation certificates under the Road Transport Regulation;
- Transportable pressure equipment: the receptacles defined in the Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulation (2010/35/EU) of the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, published in the 4th duplicate issue of the Official Gazette of 31/12/2012, No. 28514;
- Vehicle: trucks, pick-ups and tankers with at least four wheels and a maximum design speed of more than 25 km/h, manufactured in accordance with the relevant legislation for the carriage of dangerous goods by road, trailers permitted to be towed by them, semi-trailers or trailers towed by tractor units, and the road and rail vehicles specially equipped for this purpose included in ADR and RID;
- Communiqué: the Communiqué on Dangerous Goods Safety Consulting published in the Official Gazette of 22/05/2014, No. 29007;
- Danger label: the label bearing the letters, figures and symbols that express properties such as the class, degree of danger and contents of the goods in packagings used in the carriage of dangerous goods;
- Dangerous goods (dangerous load): the substances listed in Table A of ADR/RID Annex A Chapter 3.2;
- TMFB: the Dangerous Goods Activity Certificate;
- TMGD: the dangerous goods safety adviser (DGSA);
- TMGDK: the dangerous goods safety consultancy organisation;
- TMKT: the General Directorate of Regulation of Dangerous Goods and Combined Transport;
- Orange plate: plates with the characteristics defined in ADR Section 5.3.2.2;
- Battery vehicle: a vehicle consisting of tanks with a capacity of more than 450 litres, connected to each other by a manifold and permanently fixed to the vehicle;
- U-Net Automation system: the Ministry's electronic information recording system;
- UN Number: the four-digit United Nations number identifying dangerous goods;
- Instructions in writing: the document prepared by the carrier to be given to the driver, as specified in ADR Section 5.4.3, stating the measures to be taken in the event of an accident during carriage and the properties of the goods carried;
- Authorised body: a body found by the Ministry to have documentation in accordance with TSE ISO/IEC 17020 and accredited by the Turkish Accreditation Agency according to TSE ISO/IEC 17020 within the scope of its authorisation within one year of its authorisation;
- Regulation: the Regulation on the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road published in the Official Gazette of 24/10/2013, No. 28801;
- Loader: businesses that load packagings, containers or portable tanks containing packaged or bulk dangerous goods into or onto a vehicle or into a container.
