3. What are the possible designation exemptions?

Article 6 of France's Arrêté TMD du 29 mai 2009 modifié provides for an exemption from the requirement to appoint a safety advisor for companies involved in only one or other of the following operations:

• transport of dangerous goods excluded from the provisions of the dangerous goods transport regulations applicable to the land mode in question, or shipments, or related packing, loading, filling or unloading operations;

• shipments or transport of dangerous goods in packages, in quantities below the thresholds defined in § 1.1.3.6 of the ADR and packaging, loading or unloading operations of dangerous goods in packages in quantities, per operation, below these thresholds (see...