For a total of 542 chemicals conclusions and recommendations have been finalised by the OECD’s SIDS Initial Assessment Meeting (SIAM) in the OECD HPV Chemicals Programme, of which 327 are contributions from the ICCA HPV Initiative, i.e. currently 60% of the chemicals assessed under the OECD HPV Chemicals Programme have been contributed by industry. ICCA has not been able to meet its goal of completing all of the work by the end of 2004. However, the OECD Joint Meeting concluded at its 37th Joint Meeting in November 2004 that this has not adversely affected its HPV Chemicals Programme. On the contrary, the input from the ICCA HPV Initiative into the OECD HPV Chemicals Programme is more than satisfactory, especially in light of the need to gain experience with the Programme and limits on the OECD's and its member countries' capacity to receive and review reports. It can be expected that the OECD HPV Programme will remain the most productive international programme on chemicals management for several years. The OECD itself reckons that it will need another five to six years to complete the assessments of ICCA chemicals provided it runs at capacity.

The ICCA Board of Directors has reiterated its commitment to the ICCA HPV Initiative in October 2005 and urged participating companies to continue and to swiftly complete their work.

The next SIAM (SIAM 22) is scheduled for 18-21 April 2006 (Paris).

The SIDS Initial Assessment Profiles (SIAPs) are available on the publicly accessible OECD Integrated HPV Database. The full documentation is being published successively by UNEP on its public service website: http://www.chem.unep.ch/irptc/sids/OECDSIDS/sidspub.html.

The OECD makes finalised assessments that are in the process of being published by UNEP available as final drafts on its public web site (http://www.oecd.org/document/63/0,2340,en_2649_34379_1897983_1_1_1_1,00.html). In addition the OECD tries to make SIDS Dossiers in IUCLID export format available: http://www.oecd.org/document/55/0,2340,en_2649_34379_31743223_1_1_1_1,00.html.

There are links from the individual substance screens (click on the view button on the line "Existing reports") in the OECD Integrated HPV Database (http://cs3-hq.oecd.org/scripts/hpv/) to all those documents and the UNEP website.