The Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 reflect the advancement of science at the time of the adoption of the proposal for that Regulation by the Commission on 5 February 2008. Since then, the Annexes to Directive 76/768/EEC have been amended several times.

Several of the amendments to the Annexes to Directive 76/768/EEC aimed to address potential risks to human health and therefore introduced the necessary measures to protect public health. Both for the sake of legal clarity and, as there is an option to comply with Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 before 11 July 2013 as an alternative to compliance with Directive 76/768/EEC, it is therefore necessary to amend the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 as well, with a view to ensuring a high level of protection of public health.

Also, a number of the amendments to the Annexes to Directive 76/768/EEC adapted those Annexes to technical and scientific progress, while protecting public health. As a result, the Annexes to Directive 76/768/EEC are now better adapted to technical and scientific progress than those of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009. It is thus necessary to introduce those amendments in the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 as well.

In some cases, the substances have not been assigned with internationally recognised nomenclatures as the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients (INCI). However, they are identified by their perfuming names. It is therefore appropriate to indicate the perfuming names in column c of Annex III (Name of Common Ingredients Glossary).

Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 should therefore be amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Cosmetic Products,