regulations amending the transportation of dangerous goods regulations lithium metal batteries eraps updates to schedules 437 pages available in english and french the transport of lithium metal batteries as cargo on aircraft has been identified by the international community as an increasing risk in light of a number of incidents and near incidents that have occurred. the main safety concern is that once lithium metal batteries start to burn fire suppression systems on board aircraft cannot extinguish them. as a result in june 2014 the international civil aviation organization icao decided that effective january 1 2015 member states will have the obligation to apply a ban prohibiting the transport of such batteries as cargo on passenger flights. therefore this amendment will implement icaos prohibition of lithium metal batteries on passenger aircraft. classindent-1-0 a further issue addressed with this proposal is the need to include in the transportation of dangerous goods regulations tdgr protective direction pd 33 issued on april 23 2014 which established emergency response assistance plan erap requirements for nine flammable liquids. this is being done to increase the transparency of the erap requirements under the tdgr and to avoid stakeholders having to consult two separate regulatory instruments to ensure proper compliance. as well given that significant amounts of ethanol are exported from the united states into canada un1987 another number used to identify ethanol which was not previously identified in pd 33 but is used frequently in the united states as a shipping name to classify ethanol will now be subject to the erap requirements. to ensure proper coverage of petroleum products un3494 sour crude oil will now also be subject to these requirements given that it is a new classification for crude oil introduced with the updates related to the 18th edition of the un recommendations. the addition of emergency response assistance plan erap requirements for the nine flammable liquids identified in protective direction 33 pd 33 i.e. ethanol diesel gasoline crude oil petroleum distillates aviation fuel ethanol gasoline mixtures and two other generic shipping names for flammable and hydrocarbon liquids including un1987 alcohols n.o.s. and un3494 petroleum sour crude oil flammable toxic to part 7 erap of the tdgr updates to align the schedules of the tdgr with the 18suth su edition of the un recommendations un 18 on the transport of dangerous goods. including - new un numbers such as un3494 petroleum sour crude oil flammable toxic and generic shipping names such as organo metallic compounds and adsorbed gases - clarification of the difference between lithium metal and lithium ion batteries - relaxation for the transport of small quantities of dangerous goods under the excepted quantity exemption - new classification criteria to facilitate the classification of aerosols introduction of a special provision already contained in un recommendations pertaining to un1203 gasoline which will define the percentages of ethanol required to differentiate between the use of un1203 gasoline and un3475 ethanol and gasoline mixture i.e. more than 10 ethanol content for the classification of ethanol-gasoline mixtures. classindent-1-0 o o