Transportable Pressure Equipment Directive
1999/36/EC
What is the Transportable Pressure Equipment
Directive?
The Transportable Pressure Equipment Directive (TPED) applies to
you if you design or manufacture certain types of transportable
pressure equipment approved for the inland transport of dangerous
goods by road and rail and you want to place this equipment on the
market within the European Economic Area.
What does the directive cover?
The TPED refers applies to all receptacles (eg cylinders,
bundles of cylinders, tubes, pressure drums, cryogenic receptacles)
and tanks (eg demountable tanks, tank containers, tanks of tank
vehicles, portable tanks, tanks of tank wagons, tanks of battery
wagons) used for ADR Class 2 gases and for listed dangerous
substances of other classes, including their valves and other
accessories.
The Directives states which equipment requires examination by a
notified body and states the risk category for the type of
equipment.
Our services
Lloyds Register Verification Limited is a notified body for the
Transportable Pressure Equipment Directive. We have the capability
to cover all aspects of the TPEDs conformity modules,
including:
- design examination
- type examination
- quality system approval
- product inspection, test and certification
- periodic re-certification.
We realise how important it is to your business to have
efficient turnaround of design appraisal certification to meet your
timescales. Our design appraisal engineers, inspection personnel
and quality system auditors are located throughout the world to
provide convenient services in local language, covering a wide
variety of codes and standards.
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