2 December 2015

The entry into force of Royal Decree 840/2015, on measures to control the risk of serious accidents involving hazardous substances, reinforces the obligations binding affected plants in the areas of documentary evaluation, inspections and control/surveillance by the competent authority. The main obligations include the following: Evaluating the safety report Performing

20 October saw the BOE (the Spanish Official Gazette) publication passing Royal Decree 840/2015, on measures to control the risk of serious accidents involving hazardous substances, repealing the current Royal Decree 1524/1999 and subsequent modifications to it. The Royal Decree is the transfer into Spanish domestic law of Directive 2012/18/EU,

INERCO’s president, Vicente Cortés, general director, Pedro Marín, and the director of the company’s Environment division, Esther Valdivia, recently met with José Fiscal, the Regional Minister for the Environment of the Andalusian regional government. The visit, institutional in nature, enabled the minister to gain first-hand knowledge of INERCO’s lines of