Statutory Inspection
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Inspection is necessary in most projects and products to guarantee the highest standards of quality and safety in each stage of the process. Through our regulatory inspection services, we help our clients to reduce risks and to comply with the necessary regulatory requirements in the different regions and existing markets.
Transport
Inspections and actions in vehicles for the transport of perishable goods are regulated by the Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP), with administrative resolution on November 16, 2004.
The scope of the ATP regulation is for isothermal, refrigerant, refrigerated and calorific vehicles. These inspections are carried out in order to check the safety of these and to detect possible deficiencies that may occur as a result of inadequate maintenance or deterioration by the passage of time, thus aging the materials used.
The control on the compliance and conformity and the periodic inspections must be compulsorily carried out by an Authorised Inspection Agency (AIA). The supervision during the manufacture of the boxes and periodic inspections must be performed every 3 years, and annually for non-approved vehicles.
Applicable regulations
- Regulated by the Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs (ATP).
- Royal Decree 237/2000
- Royal Decree 380/2001
Vehicles carrying dangerous goods (ADR) by road have their own periodicity regarding inspections:
- Tractor and container carrier vehicle: annual inspection.
- Tank truck, removable tank, and tank vehicle: project review, supervision during manufacturing, initial inspection, annual inspection, and an inspection every 3 years, and 6 years.
- Iso-container and tank container: project review, supervision during manufacturing, initial inspection, annual inspection, and an inspection every two and a half years, and 5 years.
ADR applies for vehicles that transport dangerous goods defined on the charts A and B of the ADR and these are classified as follows:
- Explosive substances, objects, gases, and flammable liquids.
- Flammable solids.
- Self-reactive substances and solid desensitised explosives.
- Substances liable to spontaneous combustion.
- Substances that, when in contact with water, emit flammable gases.
- Oxidising substances.
- Organic peroxides.
- Toxic, infectious, radioactive and corrosive substances.
- Diverse dangerous materials and objects.
Applicable regulations
- Regulated by the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR).
RID is the Regulation concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail. It is an agreement signed by the countries that make up the European Union that meets the common requirements to allow the transport of dangerous goods through its rail network.
Depending on the inspection to be carried out (initial or periodic) it will be required:
- Registration of the wagon manufacturer with the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce.
- Review of the project for the approval of the prototype.
- Supervision during the manufacture of tank wagons.
- Initial tests and periodic inspections every 4 years.
The scope of the regulation is for tank wagons and tank containers that transport dangerous materials defined on the charts A and B of the RID and these are classified as follows:
- Explosive substances, objects, gases, and flammable liquids.
- Flammable solids.
- Self-reactive substances and solid desensitised explosives.
- Substances liable to spontaneous combustion.
- Substances that, when in contact with water, emit flammable gases.
- Oxidising substances.
- Organic peroxides.
- Toxic, infectious, radioactive and corrosive substances.
- Diverse dangerous materials and objects.
Applicable regulations
- Regulation concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID).
This inspection applies to containers destined for national and international transport by sea, land, and air provided with a CSC safety plate, in accordance with the International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC). OCA Global’s objective in this case is to inspect containers in order to check their conservation as established in article IV of the CSC.
Containers whose owners have been granted a continuous examination program by the administration (Programa de exámenes continuos, ACEP), are excluded.
These inspections are carried out according to what is established on the container safety regulations in the International Convention for Safe Containers. The fist conservation examination is carried out on the first 5 years after the manufacture of the container; subsequent revisions should be carried out every two and a half years.
Applicable regulations
- Royal Decree 2319/2004
- CSC International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC)
Council Directive 96/35/EC, which establishes Royal Decree 1566/99, requires companies who operate with dangerous goods to include the figure of the security advisor. These operations include the transportation, and the loading and discharging of dangerous cargo.
OCA Global offers the outsourcing of services such as the security advisor, so our technicians can help you comply with all the established legal obligations.
Our technicians have extensive experience and have the necessary training to take on the role of security advisor and to work with any type of dangerous goods in any sector of industrial activity.
Applicable regulations
- Royal Decree 97/2014
OCA Global, as notified body applies this directive to transportable pressure equipment in order to increase safety and ensure the free circulation of tis type of equipment in the European Union.
This directive applies to:
- All pressure receptacles, their valves and other accessories, tanks, battery vehicles/wagons, multiple-element gas containers (MEGCs), their valves and other accessories when appropriate when they transport any class 2 gases defined in ADR.
- Regarding its commercialisation, the new equipment that does not bear a conformity marking.
- Regarding periodic controls, the equipment that does bear conformity markings.
- In the case of reassessment of conformity, the equipment that does not bear a conformity marking established in Directive 1999/36/EC.
The evaluation of conformity to obtain the π Marking (Pi Marking), the reassessment of conformity, and the periodic or extraordinary inspections to guarantee that the pressure equipment meets the established safety requirements will be carried out by a notified body and will be valid within the European Union.
OCA Global is accredited by ENAC to perform the following services:
Types of inspections:
Tankers
- Type approvals.
- Initial controls.
- Periodic inspection.
- Extraordinary or additional inspections.
- Reassessment of conformity.
Pressure vessels (bottles)
- Type approvals.
- Periodic inspections (10 years).
- Supervision of the internal inspection service of the applicant (renewable every 3 years, with 2 visits per year).
- Reassessment of conformity.
Periodicity
- Fixed tank for refrigerant gases: initial inspection, extraordinary or additional inspections, an inspection after two and a half years, and every 5 years.
- Fixed tank for the rest of merchandise: initial inspection, extraordinary or additional inspections, an inspection after 4 years, and every 8 years.
Applicable regulations
- Directive 2010/35/EU