Monthly Archives: February 2015

Cosmetic Products

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From 11 July 2013, Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament will replace replace “Cosmetics Directive” 76/768/EEC. The provisions of the new regulation aim at ensuring high protection of health and access to the proper information to the consumers, by monitoring the composition and labelling of each cosmetic product is placed on the European Market. This means that the new regulation will impact important issues such safety assessment, product notification and labeling.

Cosmetic products are substances or mixtures of substances intended to be placed in contact with the external parts of the human body (epidermis, hair system, nails, etc.) or with the teeth and the mucous membranes of the oral cavity with a view exclusively or mainly to cleaning them, perfuming them, changing their appearance, protecting them, keeping them in good condition or correcting body odours.

For each cosmetic product that is placed into the EU market, a responsible person established in the Community shall be designated. This person shall ensure compliance of the products with the rules set out in the Regulation. In particular, they shall ensure compliance with requirements relating to human health, safety and consumer information. They must ensure compliance of the product and maintain a product information file accessible to the public authorities. The Responsible Person will serve as the primary contact for the product’s compliance, and will have its name and contact details on the label of the product. The Responsible Person must also keep the product information file and safety assessment available and up-to-date, and should also notify the cosmetic product in EU Cosmetic Product Notification Portal (CPNC) notification. The responsible person would usually be the EU manufacturer or importer, the distributor (under certain conditions) or a third party.
Our company Eco-efficiency Consultancy and Technical Ltd may support in every step of the compliancy with Cosmetics Regulation provinding the following services:
1. Compliance Check your products some of the ingredients contained in cosmetics may be prohibited, while others carry specific restrictions. Our Company will help you in identify these ingredients under the restrictions and other requirements of Cosmetics Regulation.
2. Establishing Good Manufacturing Practice, if you are cosmetics producer of cosmetics
3. Preparation and maintenance of the Product Information Folder (PIF), which includes:

  • Collection and Evaluation of all necessary evidence of conformity (ingredients, product claims, animal testing,)
  • Preparation of a Cosmetic Product Safety Report (CPSR) signed by special safety assessor
  • Legal support for marketing rules, sales strategy, trademark protection

4. Support for PIF update
5. Identification of distributors that for a period of 3 years, to ensure product traceability
6. Support for actions of compliance of the product such as product withdraw from the market or recall from the manufacturing company in all Member States where the product is
7. Product Labels in accordance with EU rules
8. Notification to the EU portal (CPNP) The current system of national communications by the July 11, 2013 is replaced by a central electronic notification system for all of Europe. The notification should be sent electronically to the EU special portal notification cosmetics (CPNP). The electronic notification system is available from January 2012, and notifications are mandatory in the EU from July 2013. The notification must be made by the Responsible person. Cosmetinc Products which have already been notified at national level should be notified again in CPNP until 11 July 2013.

Regulation no. 1357/2014 of the EU, for the replacement of Annex III of Directive 2008/98 / EC regarding the criteria for evaluating hazardous waste

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On the 18th of December 2014, EU Regulation no. 1357/2014 was published for the replacement of Annex III to Directive 2008/98/EC on the criteria for hazardous waste. The regulation will be entered into force within 20 days of its publication and will apply to all Member States from June 1, 2015.
Under the scope of Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/ EC, the classification of waste as hazardous waste should be based on the European legislation on chemicals, in particular the rules of classification of mixtures as hazardous and limit values concentration present in legislation on chemicals should be taken into account during evaluation. However, the legal framework for the classification of chemical substances and mixtures has changed since 2008 with the Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 – CLP on classification, labeling and packaging of substances and mixtures.
Therefore, in order to align the European legislation on waste and with the changes that have occurred in the hazard assessment of chemicals, the revised Waste hazard classification criteria and the relevant limit values should be considered when evaluating a waste stream. In addition to that hazardous properties H 1 to H 15, as defined in Annex III to Directive 2008/98 / EC, renamed HP 1 to HP 15 so as to avoid possible confusion with the codes hazard statements, as defined in Regulation (EC ) No. 1272/2008
These changes led to the replacement of Annex III of Directive 2008/98/EC, regarding the criteria for classifying waste as hazardous (Hazardous Properties 1-15) and the adoption of Regulation (EU) No. 1357/2014, the which you may find here.