dangerous goods (DG)
EASA defines “dangerous goods (DG)” in 4 regulations, worded for each regulation's scope. The wording below is reproduced verbatim from the EASA Easy Access Rules, with a link to the paragraph it comes from.
‘dangerous goods (DG)’ means articles or substances which are capable of posing a risk to health, safety, property or the environment and which are shown in the list of dangerous goods in the technical instructions or which are classified according to those instructions;
‘dangerous goods (DG)’ means articles or substances which are capable of posing a hazard to health, safety, property or the environment and which are shown in the list of dangerous goods in the Technical Instructions or which are classified according to those Instructions;
‘dangerous goods’ means articles or substances which are capable of posing a risk to health, safety, property or the environment and which are shown in the list of dangerous goods in the Technical Instructions or which are classified according to those Technical Instructions;
‘dangerous goods’ means articles or substances, which are capable of posing a hazard to health, safety, property or the environment in the case of an incident or accident, that the unmanned aircraft is carrying as its payload, including in particular:
(a)explosives (mass explosion hazard, blast projection hazard, minor blast hazard, major fire hazard, blasting agents, extremely insensitive explosives);
(b)gases (flammable gas, non-flammable gas, poisonous gas, oxygen, inhalation hazard);
(c)flammable liquids (flammable liquids; combustible, fuel oil, gasoline);
(d)flammable solids (flammable solids, spontaneously combustible solids, dangerous when wet);
(e)oxidising agents and organic peroxides;
(f)toxic and infectious substances (poison, biohazard);
(g)radioactive substances;
(h)corrosive substances;
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