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Tecnalia, selected by the ACC for the control of quality of paints and varnishes
18/10/2012
18 October 2012
After the publication and process of contracting of the corresponding public contest, the Agència Catalan of the Consum has selected to Tecnalia as laboratory of reference to realise studies of content of VOC of different samples of paints and varnishes. After llevar the performances inspectors and of control of market programmed in this sector, the Catalan Agency of the Consumption will work with the laboratories of analysis and broadcasts of Tecnalia to llevar different studies. The agency llevar this performance with the end to ensure the fulfillment of the norms in matter of labeling, information and characteristic of composition and hygiene of the products put near at hand of the consumers.
Photo: Ratnesh Bhatt.
In the laboratories of Tecnalia will llevar the analytical corresponding to evaluate the fulfillment of paints and varnishes taken of the market of agreement to the valid legislation:
- Royal decree 227/2006, whereby complements the juridical diet on the limitation of volatile organic compounds in determinate paints and varnishes and in products of renewal of the finishing of vehicles.
- Royal decree 255/2003, whereby approves the Regulation on classification, packaging and labeling of ready dangerous.
The Royal decree 227/2006 (Managerial 2004/42/CE), establishes the limits for the maximum content of COV in paintings, glaze and other affine products contemplated by the directive. From his entrance in force on 1 January 2007, the manufacturers of paintings no longer can produce products for the repintado of vehicles that surpass the limits of COV established for the smart ‘products to the use', neither commercialise them in the European Union. From January of 2010 the limits to fulfil suffered an additional restriction according to the Phase II of the present Royal decree.
