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Monday, October 7, 2024Regulation

CMRs: Great Britain re-notifies an amendment to its cosmetics regulations

CMR : la Grande-Bretagne re-notifie une modification de sa réglementation cosmétique

On 3 October 2024, the Great Britain notified a draft text to supplement the one already notified last April. It mainly extends the list of banned CMR substances, which marks an alignment (still imperfect) with European regulations, with new dates of enforcement.

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On 10 April 2024, Great Britain had notified a document providing for the addition of 52 CMRs to the list of prohibited ingredients, and the modification of restrictions on the use of Kojic acid.
These measures were essentially the same as those set out in European Regulations 2022/1531 (CMR 5) and 2023/1490 (CMR 6), but with a few specific features resulting in different conditions of use for certain ingredients on either side of the Channel.

This new notification supplements the previous one, adding 13 new substances to the first list of banned substances, all of which will be included in the draft 7th CMR Regulation notified by the European Commission at the beginning of July 2024.
But 13 “only”, whereas the 7th Regulation is expected to ban a total of 21 additional CMRs.
In the new British list, only one substance has an INCI name, Dimethyltolylamine.

The initial application deadlines have been extended to 20 October 2025 for products placed on the market, and to 1 November 2025 for products made available on the market.

As a reminder, for the European Union, the dates of entry into force of the various texts concerning all the substances targeted by Great …

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