Aerosol Dispensers Directive (ADD): overview
This Directive covers non-reusable containers made of metal, glass or plastic and containing a gas compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure, with or without a liquid, paste or powder, and fitted with a release device allowing the contents to be ejected as solid or liquid particles in suspension in a gas, as a foam, paste or powder or in a liquid state.
Legislation in force
Aerosol Dispensers Directive 75/324/EEC (ADD)
of 20 May 1975 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to aerosol dispensers (OJ-L 147-09/06/1975) amended by:
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Commission Directive 94/1/EC of 6 January 1994
adapting some technicalities of Council Directive 75/324/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the relating Member States to aerosol dispensers;
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Commission Directive 2008/47/EC of 8 April 2008
amending, for the purposes of adapting to technical progress, Council Directive 75/324/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to aerosol dispensers (OJ-L 96-9/04/2008).
Documents of interest
U.N. Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods 
[546 KB] : section 31 of the Manual of Tests and Criteria (Orange book).
Report of the Committee of Experts [834 KB] (Geneva, 10 December 2004) adopting amendments to the 13th edition of UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UN Model Regulations), for aerosols see paragraph 6.2.4.2.