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As of July 1, 2019, CIAV emergency contact number will be changed to a toll-free number – 800 250 250.
Dangerous goods safety advisor for sender and comercial agents
Following the 1.6.1.44 point, it’s compulsory to designate the senders or comercial agents who only hire but not load, unload or transport as Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor.
From April 30th to May 2nd SIAM took part as an exhibitor in the CPhI North America, which was developed in Chicago.
Pilar Ortiz, a member of Siam’s legislative support team, took part on the Seminar organized by Chementors, a chemical safety consultant and our partner in the Scandinavian country.
Regulation (EC) 2019/521 (ATP 14) which amend, for the purposes of its adaptation to technical and scientific progress Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, was published the last 28th March.
The French motorcyclist runs this season for JEG Racing team, which is based in the Valencian circuit of Cheste.
SIAM attended from 11 to 14 February in Nuremberg (Germany) to the European Coatigns Show, the leading coatings show.
On March 13, the Business Federation of the Spanish Chemical Industry (FEIQUE) in collaboration with ICEX Spain Export and Investment, organised the event: "BREXIT and the implications of supply and use of chemical products". It was led by national and European authorities from the environmental health department, as well as several experts from the chemical industry field.
SIAM attended from February 11 to 14 in Fort Worth (Texas)) to the Chemical America fair through its company in the United States SIAM LLC.
Last 1st February was conducted an online seminar for members of the "Consorcio Nacional de Industriales del Caucho" (Spanish Rubber Association) about “Connected Regulations in the Rubber sector: ADR, Hazardous Waste and Seveso III”.
Since 1st December the 10th Adaptation to Technical and scientific Progress (ATP) is in force and applicable to the Regulation nº1272/2008 (CLP). This new adaptation modifies the harmonised classification of 13 substances and introduces 24 new substances into the Annex VI of the Regulation nº1272/2008 (CLP).
The Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) has been upgraded to 197 substances. The ECHA (European Chemical Agency) included last 15th January 6 new substances; 5 of them due to the carcinogenic, toxic to reproduction, persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) and very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) properties of the substances. The sixth substance has been identified as an endocrine-disrupting by the European Commission and consequently added to the list.
SIAM and EPSON scheduled again three sessions about NOM-018-STPS-2015 in México.
During last September, the team formed by two reference companies in its field, SIAM and EPSON, held three days of dissemination on this occasion in Mexico about the NOM-018-STPS-2015.
The sessions held in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey, with the participation and satisfaction of the attendees, managed in a practical way the compliance with NOM-018-STPS.
On october 9th the NOM-018-STPS-2015 came into effect compulsorily in México, which means to leave without any effect the previous NOM-018-STPS-2000.
The ECHA has formed a working group with the purpose of identifying trends and the greatest shortcoming of the Safety Data Sheets in order to set the follow-up actions for the year 2019.
Published ATP 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, on classification, labeling and packaging of substances and mixtures, and the Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/776 is corrected
Good news! SIAM has implemented the new General Data Protection Regulation which is in force since May 25th.
SIAM are committed with achieving high quality standards in all our processes and working procedures. Thanks to the work of our team, we have just been ISO 9001:2015 certified.
The 11th adaptation to technical and scientific progress (ATP) to the CLP Regulation had already been officially published by the EU Commission on 16 April.
The use of methanol in windscreen washer fluids has been restricted by the Regulation (UE) 2018/589.
Last April 10-12, the American Coatings Show took place at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
Paintistanbul Turkcoat, one of the most important and globally consolidated trade shows took place last 22-24 March in Istanbul.
SIAM USA LLC attended the GLOBALCHEM 2018, event gathering the worldwide cutting-edge chemical regulations experts. It took place in Washington from February 28th to March 2nd, being hold by the American Chemistry Council.
Owing to the importance of this labeling element for products subjected to CLP classification, ECHA has published a video and information about it here.
SIAM, as every year, held a presentation at the annual technical commission of the Spanish Association for Detergents and Cleaning and Maintenance products. SIAM focused this edition GHS adaptations outside Europe.
After touring around the Iberian Peninsula (Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto and Murcia) SIAM-EPSON conferences finalize in Seville on the 7th February, 2018.
Thank you for your participation and hope to see you soon in the following edition!
The ChemCon Conferences event was hold in New Orleans from the 5th to the 9th of February, where worldwide chemistry experts were met.
The Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) for authorisation now contains 181 substances.
From 30 March 2019, UK will be no longer part of the EU and it will become a « third country » outside the Union.
REACH Committee of the European Commission, in the meeting held the 24th and 25th October, gave a positive opinion on the methanol restriction project.
ASEFAPI (Spanish association of Paint and printing inks manufacturers)
Once again SIAM took part at the technical congress of ASEFAPI at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium (venue).
The Official Spanish Gazette published on the 29th of September 2017, the order JUS/909/2017.
Argentina has implemented the UN’s Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for the classification and labelling of chemicals.
The new Eurobarometer study on chemical safety shows that 65 % of EU citizens are concerned (of 28 000 EU citizens interviewed) , to different extents, about being exposed to hazardous chemicals. While 26% are very worry, 39% present little concern.
The level of concern varies according to the respondents’ Member State, with those in northern Europe generally feeling more informed and less concerned than those in southern Europe.
South Korea's National Institute of Environmental Research has added 23 substances and has revised 50.
From July 13 to 15, 2017, the 74th Florida Feed Association Convention was held in Bonita Springs, Florida.
For the first time since its creation early in 2017, SIAM USA had an outstanding performance at the Latin America Coating Show in Mexico, at the Banamex Convention Center on June.
During the weekend of the 24-25, of June took place the third round of the RFME Spanish speed championship at Circuito de Navarra, close to Logroño.
The national consortium of Rubber industries hold the XXIIth edition of its technical conference “Rubber Connected” on June 1st at ITAINNOVA (Technological institute of Aragón)
More than 70 professionals registered for the SIAM-EPSON conferences in Lisbon and Porto.
From 1 June 2017, all chemical products placed on the market have to be labelled in accordance with the CLP Regulation.
The state is introducing the Household Cleansing Product Information Disclosure programme. The state's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released a draft certification form and guidance document for public consultation.
From 1 June 2017, all chemical products placed on the market have to be labelled in accordance with the Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation.
On April 27th, Siam and Epson Iberica organized a seminar where more than 75 people from chemical industry attended.
It has been approved the inclusion of 25 new substances to REACH appendices 1 to 6, resulting in a modification of points 28,29 and 30 of the Annex XVII.
During the last week of March, US SIAM team visited SIAM headquarters in Logroño.
23rd of March was Ecolabel anniversary. It has been 25 years since the EU Ecolabel was launched and adopted at EU level and currently up to 40000 products and services are covered by this scheme.
For the fourth consecutive time, Siam attended to the most important worldwide show of paints, vanishes sealants, building chemical and adhesives; the European Coating Show 2017.
Between 28 February and 3 March, IFEMA exhibition ground hosted the first edition of the Technology and Innovation for Swimming Installations trade fair, Tecnova Piscinas (http://www.ifema.es/tecnovapiscinas_01).
On March 24th, SIAM introduced its CHEMETER and SDSArea solutions in the annual APT Seminar (Portuguese paint and coating association).
Published Regulation (EU) 2017/542 amending CLP regulation by adding Annex VIII on Poison centers harmonized information requirements
Siam took part in the Paddle tournament supporting the organ donation held in Logroño from March 10th to March 12th 2017.
On February 23, SIAM participated in the annual technical commission of ADELMA. Siam´s speaker talked about the Harmonization of toxic notifications at EU level in a nutshell.
The presence and fast expansion of SIAM through the five continents is a reality, so, in order to perform at our best and improve our service worldwide a new subsidiary has been opened in Miami. This milestone is meant to consolidate our presence in the region to provide updated international legislative support and customized SDS for all American countries.
On December 21st 2016, The European Commission has published corrections to the CLP Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006
The corrections resulted in over 41 corrections related to grammatical and orthographic errors indifferent languages of several H-phrases, P-phrases and EUH-phrases. The deadline for updating the labels is 21st July 2018. If you want to know how this revision affects your products, do not hesitate to contact us! We will promptly provide you advice on the doubts you may encounter!
This body is a network of authorities responsible for the enforcement of the REACH, CLP and PIC regulations in the EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
This forum is of great interest for our clients because it coordinates various enforcement projects. One of the main ones being the REACH-EN-FORCE (REF) projects which are designed to harmonize enforcement in each Member State and check the current level of compliance with regard to particular obligations imposed on industry by the REACH, CLP and PIC regulations.
If you want to know more about the Forum and the REF project, visit the following link
https://echa.europa.eu/es/about-us/who-we-are/enforcement-forum/forum-enforcement-projectsWelcome to our new website! At SIAM we have always excelled in providing benefits tailored to each customer. That's why, with this new and improved image, we hope to make navigation more comfortable and straightforward, with a view to offering a more practical, more useful and - above all - more complete environment for our users and customers.
On the 28th of September 2016, SIAM played a key role in the meeting of the fourteen regional organisations which make up the Spanish Confederation of Animal Feed Manufacturers (CESFAC).
The SIAM IT Company is truly committed to sports involving cutting-edge technology, dedication and teamwork, values which are reflected in its business philosophy. This is why the leader in software for the automatic creation and management of safety data sheets (SDS) and labels has, for the second year running, pledged financial support to the young motorcycle racer Paul Dufor, who is competing in the Spanish Superstock 600 Championship.
For the fifth year running, SIAM attended the Home and Personal Care Ingredients (HPCI) exhibition, which was held on the 28th and 29th of September 2016 in Warsaw.
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