1 Scope

This document specifies the minimum requirements for inspection at time of filling of battery vehicles and multiple-element gas containers (MEGCs) for compressed and liquefied gases.

The elements of battery vehicles and MEGCs covered by this document are:

• seamless steel or seamless aluminium alloy cylinders or tubes, and

• composite cylinders or tubes (hoop-wrapped or fully-wrapped)

with a water capacity up to 3000 l.

This document is not applicable to MEGCs using tanks as elements.

This document is not applicable to the automotive components of a battery trailer.