The Cosmetic Products (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1679

CONSUMER PROTECTION

The Cosmetic Products (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made

26th June 2000

Laid before Parliament

27th June 2000

Coming into force

29th June 2000

Whereas the Secretary of State is a Minister designated(1) for the purposes of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures for safety and consumer protection as regards cosmetic products and any provisions concerning the composition, labelling, marketing, classification or description of cosmetic products:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2 of that Act hereby makes the following Regulations:—

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Cosmetic Products (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on the 29th June 2000.

2.  The Cosmetic Products (Safety) Regulations 1996(3) are amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 1(8) by substituting the date “30th June 2002”(4) for the date “30th June 2000”;

(b) in regulation 2(1), in the definition of “the Directive”, by deleting the word “and” before “Commission Directive 98/62/EC”(5) and by adding the words “, and Commission Directive 2000/41/EC”(6) at the end of that definition;

(c) in regulation 4(3) by substituting the date “30th June 2002”(4) for the date “30th June 2000”.

Kim Howells,

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Consumers and Corporate Affairs,

Department of Trade and Industry

26th June 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Cosmetic Products (Safety) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2925) (“the principal Regulations”).

The Regulations implement Commission Directive 2000/41/EC (OJ No. L145; 20.6.00, p25). The principal Regulations contained a prohibition, due to come into force on 30th June 2000, on the supply of cosmetics which contain ingredients or combinations of ingredients tested on animals, when such testing takes place after 30th June 2000 and is undertaken in order that the products may satisfy the requirements of the principal Regulations. The date 30th June 2000 is changed by these Regulations to 30th June 2002, which is also the date on which this prohibition will now come into force (regulation 2(b) and (c)).

(1)

1972/1811, 1975/1707, 1993/2661.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 1996/2925; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/2914 and S.I. 1999/1552.

(4)

The date 30th June 2000 was substituted for 1st January 1998 by S.I. 1997/2914.

(5)

The reference to Commission Directive 98/62/EC was added to S.I. 1996/2925 by S.I. 1999/1552.

(6)

OJ No. L.145, 20.6.00, p25.