The Dangerous Goods Emergency Action Code List for 2025 has been produced by the NCEC part of Ricardo, in co-operation with the UK Home Office, and is published by TSO.

The EAC List 2025 is effective immediately in connection with the use of ADR and RID 2025 and is mandatory from 1 July 2025. The Emergency Action Code List 2023 should no longer be used from that date. 

Duty holders are required to use the 2025 EAC List for the application of the appropriate EACs under Schedule 1 of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations 2009 (CDG 2009) (as amended); and of the Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (CDG 2010) (as amended). 

A physical copy of the publication is available to purchase from TSO.

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Brief overview of updates and changes

New entries for:

• UN3551 SODIUM ION BATTERIES with organic electrolyte
• UN3552 SODIUM ION BATTERIES CONTAINED IN EQUIPMENT or SODIUM ION BATTERIES PACKED WITH EQUIPMENT, with organic electrolyte
• UN3553 DISILANE
• UN3554 GALLIUM CONTAINED IN MANUFACTURED ARTICLES
• UN3555 TRIFLUOROMETHYLTETRAZOLE-SODIUM SALT IN ACETONE, with not less than 68 % acetone, by mass
• UN3556 VEHICLE, LITHIUM ION BATTERY POWERED 
• UN3557 VEHICLE, LITHIUM METAL BATTERY POWERED 
• UN3558 VEHICLE, SODIUM ION BATTERY POWERED
• UN3559 FIRE SUPPRESSANT DISPERSING DEVICES
• UN3560 TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE AQUEOUS SOLUTION with not less than 25 % tetramethylammonium hydroxide

Updates to:

• UN1010 BUTADIENES, STABILIZED or BUTADIENES AND HYDROCARBON MIXTURE, STABILIZED, containing more than 20% butadienes
• UN1197 EXTRACTS, LIQUID, for flavour or aroma
• UN1835 TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE AQUEOUS SOLUTION
• UN3292 BATTERIES, CONTAINING METALLIC SODIUM OR SODIUM ALLOY, or CELLS, CONTAINING METALLIC SODIUM OR SODIUM ALLOY
• UN3423 TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM HYDROXIDE, SOLID

 If you have any questions regarding the emergency action code list, or any other regulatory enquiry in general, please contact us.

 *In the case of any contradiction between these updates and the printed version of The Dangerous Goods Emergency Action Code List 2023, the latter will have precedence. 

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