On 17 March 2020, the European Commission published an updated and extended version of the Brexit preparation aid leaflet for economic operators in the cosmetics sector. In addition to the points already addressed (the Responsible Person, the notification on the CPNP, the Product Information File, the labelling), new headings have been added to clarify the provisions to be taken regarding the safety assessor, products placed on the market before the end of the transition period or the specific c...

The placing on the market of pre-packaged products with more or less significant underdoses creates unfair competition between manufacturers and misleads the consumer, says the DGCCRF. In order to detect, quantify and qualify these fraudulent practices, its services regularly carry out checks to verify whether the quantity of product present in the pre-packaged products marketed on the national market corresponds to that indicated on the labelling. The results of the survey carried out in 2018 h...