EU Cosmetics Regulation: what you must do before selling cosmetics in the EU

The EU Cosmetics Regulation, Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationThe whole regulationClick opens the law on the EU Publications Office., gives almost every one of its duties to one person: the responsible person.

Whether your product is a cosmetic

The Regulation covers “any substance or mixture intended to be placed in contact with the external parts of the human body (epidermis, hair system, nails, lips and external genital organs) or with the teeth and the mucous membranes of the oral cavity”, used “exclusively or mainly” to clean, perfume, change the appearance of, protect or keep those parts in good condition, or to correct body odours (Art. 2(1)(a)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 1, point (a)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, lipstick, perfume, sunscreen, nail polish and hair dye are all cosmetics. A product meant to be ingested, inhaled, injected or implanted is not (Art. 2(2)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). A product that kills germs for a purpose other than caring for the body, a surface disinfectant for one, is not a cosmetic; the Biocidal Products Regulation governs it.

The test is the purpose, so what the product is presented as doing matters. Where a product sits on the border, the Commission may decide, at the request of an EU country or on its own initiative, whether it falls within the definition (Art. 2(4)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 4Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). The Regulation applies to every cosmetic product made available on the EU market (Art. 1Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.), and a product offered online counts as made available once the offer is targeted at end users in the EU (Art. 6Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationArticle 6Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020).

Who the EU responsible person is

A cosmetic product may be placed on the market only if a person in the EU is designated as its responsible person (Art. 4(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.): the manufacturer for a product made in the EU, the importer for an imported one, and either may hand the role by written mandate to someone in the EU who accepts in writing (Art. 4(3)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Art. 4(4)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 4Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Art. 4(5)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 5Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). What it answers for, who can be one and how to find one is in EU cosmetics responsible person.

What changes when you sell from outside the EU

The Cosmetics Regulation defines an importer as a person “established within the Community” who places a product from a third country on the market (Art. 2(1)(i)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 1, point (i)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). A business outside the EU that ships to EU buyers itself has no such importer behind it, and the product still may not go on the market without a responsible person in the EU (Art. 4(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). So you contract one: a company in the EU that accepts the role in writing, holds the product information file at its address, notifies the product and appears on the label. The file is kept at its address, so the safety report and the rest of the file reach it before the first sale (Art. 11(3)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 11, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

The general EU rule on an EU-based operator for products sold from abroad, Art. 4Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationArticle 4Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationThe whole regulationClick opens the law on the EU Publications Office., does not cover cosmetics: its list in Art. 4(5)Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 5Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. leaves the Cosmetics Regulation out, because that Regulation’s own responsible person achieves the same result (recital 22 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationThe whole regulationClick opens the law on the EU Publications Office.). The cosmetics responsible person is the EU contact for a cosmetic product. How the different EU “responsible” roles compare is in EU responsible person vs authorised representative. Selling to Great Britain as well, the UK has its own role: UK Responsible Person for overseas sellers of cosmetics.

What the safety assessment and the safety report cover

Before the product is placed on the market, the responsible person makes sure it has undergone a safety assessment and that a cosmetic product safety report (CPSR) is set up in line with Annex I (Art. 10(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 10, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). The assessment takes account of the intended use and the expected systemic exposure to each ingredient, weighs the data from all existing sources, and the report is kept up to date as new information arrives (Art. 10(1)(a)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 10, paragraph 1, point (a)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.-(c)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 10, paragraph 1, point (c)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

The assessment in Part B is carried out by a person holding a diploma or equivalent qualification from a university course in pharmacy, toxicology, medicine or a similar discipline, or a course an EU country recognises as equivalent (Art. 10(2)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 10, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). A supplier’s ingredient data sheet feeds Part A of the report; it is not the report, which needs the assessor’s Part B.

What the report contains, at a minimum (Annex I):

The Commission has published guidelines on how to fill in Annex I (Implementing Decision 2013/674/EU). Non-clinical safety studies carried out after 30 June 1988 follow good laboratory practice (Art. 10(3)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 10, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

What goes in the product information file

When the product is placed on the market, the responsible person keeps a product information file for it, for ten years following the date the last batch was placed on the market (Art. 11(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 11, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). It holds, kept up to date (Art. 11(2)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 11, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.):

• a description of the product that ties the file clearly to it;
• the cosmetic product safety report;
• the method of manufacture and a statement of compliance with good manufacturing practice;
• where the nature or effect of the product justifies it, proof of the effect claimed;
• data on any animal testing by the manufacturer, its agents or suppliers for the development or safety assessment of the product or its ingredients, including tests done to meet the rules of countries outside the EU.

The file is kept readily accessible, electronically or otherwise, at the address on the label, for the authority of the EU country where it is kept, and in a language that authority easily understands (Art. 11(3)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 11, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Manufacturing in line with the harmonised standards whose references are published in the Official Journal is presumed to be good manufacturing practice (Art. 8Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 8Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

How CPNP notification works

Before placing the product on the market, the responsible person submits electronically to the Commission (Art. 13(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 13, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.):

• the category of product and its name or names;
• the name and address of the responsible person where the file is kept;
• the country of origin, for an imported product;
• the EU country where the product is to be placed on the market;
• the contact details of a physical person to contact when necessary;
• any nanomaterials, with their identification and the foreseeable exposure;
• the name and CAS or EC number of any substance classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction, category 1A or 1B;
• the frame formulation, so that prompt medical treatment is possible.

When any of that information changes, the responsible person updates it without delay (Art. 13(7)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 13, paragraph 7Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). When the product is placed on the market, the responsible person adds the original labelling and, where reasonably legible, a photograph of the packaging (Art. 13(2)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 13, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). The Commission passes the information to national authorities and to poison centres (Art. 13(5)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 13, paragraph 5Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Art. 13(6)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 13, paragraph 6Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

The system is the Cosmetic Products Notification Portal (CPNP). The Commission runs it free of charge, and once a product is notified there, no further notification is needed at national level anywhere in the EU (European Commission, CPNP). The Regulation creates no “CPNP certificate”: the notification is the record.

A product containing nanomaterials is notified a second time, through the CPNP’s nanomaterial module, six months before it is placed on the market, with the nanomaterial’s identity, specification, estimated yearly quantity, toxicological profile, safety data and exposure conditions. A nanomaterial used as a colorant, preservative or UV filter listed in the annexes, and one that meets the conditions of Annex III, is not notified this way (Art. 16(2)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 16, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Art. 16(3)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 16, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

A distributor who makes a product available in another EU country and translates any part of its label on its own initiative notifies the product too: its category and names in both countries, the country, its own name and address, and the responsible person’s name and address (Art. 13(3)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 13, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.), and updates it without delay when any of it changes (Art. 13(7)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 13, paragraph 7Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

What goes on the label

A cosmetic product may be made available only where its container and packaging carry these items in indelible, easily legible and visible lettering (Art. 19(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 19, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.):

Where the precautions or the ingredient list cannot fit, they go on an enclosed leaflet, label, tape, tag or card, referred to on the pack by the symbol of a hand pointing to an open book (Art. 19(2)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 19, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Annex VII point 1). For soap, bath balls and other small products where even that is impossible, the ingredient list goes on a notice next to the container in which the product is displayed (Art. 19(3)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 19, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

The language of the content, durability, precautions and function is set by the law of each EU country where the product reaches the end user (Art. 19(5)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 19, paragraph 5Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Ingredients are named by the common ingredient names of the Commission’s glossary (Art. 19(6)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 19, paragraph 6Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Art. 33Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 33Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.); the current glossary was laid down by Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1175 and applies from 30 July 2026. The INCI names guide covers the order, colorants, perfume and CosIng.

The deadline for fragrance allergens passed on 31 July 2026. Regulation (EU) 2023/1545 added fragrance allergens that must be named individually in the ingredient list above 0.001% in leave-on products and 0.01% in rinse-off products. A product that does not meet the new entries may no longer be placed on the market from 1 August 2026, and may be made available only until 31 July 2028. Stock placed on the market before the deadline sells out until then; a new batch carries the longer list.

Which claims you may make

No text, name, trade mark, picture or other sign may imply that a cosmetic has a characteristic or function it does not have (Art. 20(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 20, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Every claim, on the pack, in the listing and in the ads, must also meet the six common criteria of Regulation (EU) No 655/2013Commission Regulation (EU) No 655/2013, common criteria for cosmetic product claimsThe whole regulationClick opens the law on the EU Publications Office. and match the proof in the product information file (Art. 2Commission Regulation (EU) No 655/2013, common criteria for cosmetic product claimsArticle 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. of that Regulation; Art. 11(2)(d)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 11, paragraph 2, point (d)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). The criteria, “free from” and “hypoallergenic” claims, the animal testing claim and the point where a claim makes the product a medicine are in cosmetic claims EU.

Which substances are banned or restricted

The formula is checked against Annexes II to VI: prohibited substances, restricted substances, and the lists of allowed colorants, preservatives and UV filters (Art. 14(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 14, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction are prohibited too, unless the Commission has allowed one by way of exception after a safety opinion (Art. 15Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 15Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.), and the lists keep changing, with new dates from 2025 to 2028. The annexes, the CMR rule, nanomaterials and every date are in EU cosmetics banned substances.

What the animal testing ban covers

A cosmetic product may not be placed on the market if its final formulation, or an ingredient in it, was tested on animals to meet the Regulation’s requirements by a method other than a validated alternative (Art. 18(1)(a)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 18, paragraph 1, point (a)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Art. 18(1)(b)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 18, paragraph 1, point (b)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). The deadlines for that ban have all passed: 11 March 2009, and 11 March 2013 for repeated-dose toxicity, reproductive toxicity and toxicokinetics (Art. 18(2)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 18, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Data on every animal test performed, including for the rules of countries outside the EU, goes in the product information file (Art. 11(2)(e)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 11, paragraph 2, point (e)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

What marketplaces collect

No article of the Cosmetics Regulation speaks to marketplaces. What a marketplace asks of you comes from two other laws.

The Digital Services Act makes a marketplace collect your name, address, phone and email, an identity document, your payment account, your trade register number if you have one, and your self-certification that you offer only products that comply with EU law, before you can sell (DSA Art. 30(1)Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Digital Services ActArticle 30, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). It shows buyers your name, contact details, register number and self-certification (Art. 30(7)Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Digital Services ActArticle 30, paragraph 7Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Its listing form lets you give the economic operator’s contact details, the product identification and the labelling information EU law requires (Art. 31(1)Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Digital Services ActArticle 31, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Art. 31(2)Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Digital Services ActArticle 31, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.), and it makes best efforts to assess that information before your offer goes live (Art. 31(3)Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Digital Services ActArticle 31, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). A marketplace that is a micro or small enterprise is outside these three articles, unless it is a very large online platform (Art. 29Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Digital Services ActArticle 29Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

GPSR adds the product-safety fields: the manufacturer’s name and postal and electronic address, a picture and identifiers of the product, and its warnings in the buyer’s language (GPSR Art. 22(9)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 22, paragraph 9Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). For a cosmetic, the warnings are the precautions of Art. 19(1)(d)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 19, paragraph 1, point (d)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.. What a marketplace asks for field by field, and why a listing is blocked, is in marketplace requirements.

An authority can order a marketplace to take an offer of a dangerous product down, and the marketplace acts within two working days (GPSR Art. 22(4)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 22, paragraph 4Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

What a reseller of cosmetics someone else placed on the market checks

A reseller of products already placed on the EU market is a distributor (Art. 2(1)(e)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 1, point (e)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Before selling, it verifies that the responsible person, the batch number and the ingredient list are on the pack, that the language rules are met, and that the date of minimum durability has not passed (Art. 6(2)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 6, paragraph 2Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). It keeps storage and transport conditions from harming the product (Art. 6(4)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 6, paragraph 4Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.), and it can name who supplied it and whom it supplied, for three years after the batch reached it (Art. 7Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 7Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Put your own brand on it and you become the responsible person (Art. 4(6)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 6Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.).

Where GPSR stops

The Cosmetics Regulation is on the list of Union harmonisation legislation in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationThe whole regulationClick opens the law on the EU Publications Office. (point 35), which is how GPSR defines the term (GPSR Art. 3(27)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 3, point 27Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). For a product under such legislation, GPSR switches parts of itself off (GPSR Art. 2(1)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). What stays applies only to the aspects and risks the Cosmetics Regulation does not cover, and only as far as it has no rule with the same aim (GPSR Art. 2(1)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., first and second subparagraphs; recital 8):

So for a cosmetic there is no GPSR technical documentation and no GPSR responsible person; the safety report, the product information file and the cosmetics responsible person take their place. The listing information stays, and so do marketplace cooperation and the GPSR recall rules, as far as the Cosmetics Regulation has no rule with the same aim (GPSR Art. 2(1)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., recital 8). A serious undesirable effect is notified by the responsible person and distributors to the authority of the EU country where it occurred (Art. 23(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 23, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.); the Cosmetics Regulation covers that, so the GPSR accident notification through the Safety Business Gateway (GPSR Art. 20(1)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 20, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.) gives way to that extent. The whole of GPSR is in the GPSR guide.

Who owes what

What happens if you do nothing

A product with no responsible person may not be placed on the market at all (Art. 4(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Where the safety assessment, the file, the notification, the substance rules, the label or the claims fall short, the authority requires the responsible person to bring the product into conformity, withdraw it or recall it within a time limit it sets (Art. 25(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 25, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.), and across the whole EU, not only in its own country (Art. 25(3)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 25, paragraph 3Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). If that does not happen, or the risk is serious, the authority itself prohibits, restricts, withdraws or recalls the product (Art. 25(5)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 25, paragraph 5Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Distributors face the same demands for their own duties (Art. 26Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 26Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Penalties are set by each EU country and must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive (Art. 37Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 37Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Before any of that, a marketplace that cannot collect the information of DSA Art. 30(1)Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Digital Services ActArticle 30, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. does not let you sell.

What is proposed but not yet law

On 8 July 2025 the Commission proposed amending the Cosmetics Regulation (COM(2025) 531). Among other changes it would drop the separate six-month notification for products with nanomaterials, moving that information into the safety report; rework the procedure for exceptions to the ban on CMR substances (set out in EU cosmetics banned substances); and delete the Commission glossary of ingredient names, so labels rely on the internationally recognised nomenclature. No amending act had been adopted on 5 October 2026, and the Regulation applies as it stands.

What the law leaves open

• Who designates the responsible person for a direct sale from outside the EU. Art. 4(5)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 5Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. makes the importer the responsible person, and an importer is someone “established within the Community” (Art. 2(1)(i)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 1, point (i)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Art. 4(4)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 4Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. covers a manufacturer outside the EU only for a product made inside it. For a product made outside the EU and sent by its maker straight to an EU consumer, no article names who designates the responsible person. Art. 4(1)Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 1Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. is still absolute: no responsible person, no sale. Meanwhile: contract a responsible person in the EU by written mandate, accepted in writing, as the other paragraphs of Art. 4Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. describe.
• Which “responsible person” goes in the listing. GPSR Art. 19Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 19Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. and Art. 22(9)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 22, paragraph 9Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. ask for “the responsible person within the meaning of Article 16(1) of this Regulation or Article 4(1)Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationThe whole regulationClick opens the law on the EU Publications Office. of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationThe whole regulationClick opens the law on the EU Publications Office.” where the manufacturer is outside the EU. Neither of those roles applies to a cosmetic (GPSR Art. 2(1)(b)Regulation (EU) 2023/988, General Product Safety RegulationArticle 2, paragraph 1, point (b)Click opens the article on EUR-Lex., Art. 4(5)Regulation (EU) 2019/1020, Market Surveillance RegulationArticle 4, paragraph 5Click opens the article on EUR-Lex.). Meanwhile: the person a cosmetic has in the EU is its Art. 4Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, Cosmetic Products RegulationArticle 4Click opens the article on EUR-Lex. responsible person, and that name and address go in the field.

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