According to the European Regulation for Cosmetics, prior to placing a cosmetic product on the market, the responsible person must submit by electronic means the following information, through the platform CPNP (Cosmetic Products Notification Portal):
(a) The category of cosmetic product and its name or names, enabling its identification;
(b) The name and address of the responsible person where the product information file is made readily accessible;
(c) the country of origin in the case of import;
(d) the Member State in which the cosmetic product is to be placed on the market;
(e) the contact details of a physical person to contact in the case of necessity;
(f) the presence of substances in the form of nanomaterials and:
(g) the name and the Chemicals Abstracts Service (CAS) or EC number of substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (CMR), of category 1A or 1B, under Part 3 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008;
(h) the frame formulation allowing for prompt and appropriate medical treatment in the event of difficulties.
When the cosmetic product is placed on the market, the responsible person shall notify the Commission the original labelling, and, where reasonably legible, a photograph of the corresponding packaging.
A distributor who makes available in a Member State a cosmetic product already placed on the market in another Member State and translates, on his own initiative, any element of the labelling of that product in order to comply with national law, shall submit, by electronic means, the following:
(a) the category of cosmetic product, its name in the Member State of dispatch and its name in the Member State in which it is made available, enabling its identification;
(b) the Member State in which the cosmetic product is made available;
(c) his name and address;
(d) the name and address of the responsible person where the product information file is made readily accessible.
Where a cosmetic product has been placed on the market before 11 July 2013 but is no longer placed on the market as from that date and a distributor introduces that product in a Member State after that date, that distributor shall communicate the following to the responsible person:
(a) the category of cosmetic product, its name in the Member State of dispatch and its name in the Member State in which it is made available, enabling its specific identification;
(b) the Member State in which the cosmetic product is made available;
(c) his name and address.