Product Notifications (CPNP and SCPN)
Notification of cosmetic products to the EU Cosmetic Products Notification Portal and the Great Britain Submit Cosmetic Product Notifications service, with amendments and withdrawals managed within the regulated timeframes.
- EU notification through the Cosmetic Products Notification Portal (CPNP) under Article 13
- Great Britain notification through the Submit Cosmetic Product Notifications (SCPN) service
- Initial notification, ongoing amendment and withdrawal, kept synchronised with the PIF and the label
- Nanomaterial notification under Article 16 where applicable
- Provided as part of our Responsible Person service; standalone notification work quoted on application
No cosmetic may be placed on the market until it has been notified, and since Brexit that means two systems for a product sold in both. The EU notification is made through the Cosmetic Products Notification Portal under Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009; the Great Britain notification is made through the Submit Cosmetic Product Notifications service under the assimilated UK Regulation.
Article 13(1) sets out what must be notified: the category and name of the product; the Responsible Person, at whose address the PIF is held; the country of origin for imported products; the territory where the product is placed on the market; the contact for a natural person in case of need; the presence of substances in the form of nanomaterials, with the separate notification to the Commission required by Article 16 six months before placing on the market; the identity of substances classified as CMR categories 1A, 1B or 2 under Article 15; and the frame formulation enabling prompt medical treatment. The original labelling and a photograph of the packaging are provided where reasonably legible.
Notification is not a single filing. A change of formulation, label or product photograph, and a withdrawal, must each be reflected. We keep the notifications synchronised with the PIF so that what an authority sees matches the file behind it. This work is included in our Responsible Person service; standalone notification is quoted on application.