Regulations Governing Notification of Cosmetic Products  
 
Article 1 This Regulation is enacted pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 4 of Cosmetics Hygiene and 
Safety Act (the “Act”).  
 
Article 2 The cosmetics manufacturers or importers of a certain scale under  Paragraph 1 of Article 4 
of the Act (the “Cosmetics Manufacturers or Importers”) shall refer to below entities  in the business 
of manufacturing or importing cosmetics products : 
1. A corporate or a firm to be established and registered pursuant to Company Act  and/or Business 
Registration Act.  
2. A factory to be registered pursuant to Paragraph 1 of Article 8 of the Act.  
3. The groups and corporations which engage in cosmetics manufacturing or importing, except the 
handmade soap entities which are exempt from indus try registration, excluding the entities 
mentioned in preceding two subparagraphs.  
 
Article 3 Cosmetics Manufacturers or Importers  shall, while manufacturing or importing cosmetics 
under Paragraph 1 of Article 4 of the Act, complete data notification  via the platform provided by the  
central  competent authorities.  
Article 4 Data notification  specified in the preceding Article shall include:  
1. Notification  number of products.  
2. Chinese and English names of products provided that no need to notify  the English nam e of 
domestic products.  
3. Category and usage of products.  
4. Type of products. Model number and color code for series products.  
5. Dosage of products.  
6. Precautions of products.  
7. Names, addresses and telephone numbers of manufacturers or importers of products.  
8. Names,  addresses nationalities of the premises where products manufactured and other criteria 
conforming to cosmetics Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).  
9. Full components of products. Weight or capacity percentage identifying its content inclusion if 
limitation o f usage set forth by the central  competent authorities.  
10. Other relevant descriptions.  
The aforesaid data notify  shall be made in Chinese, English, numbers or international symbols.  
 
Article 5 No false data notify  shall be provided by Cosmetics Manufacturers  or Importers . 
 
Article 6 Data notification  shall be made separately for different data provided for each Sub-paragraph of Paragraph 1 of Article 4, except for the followings:  
1. Multiple product names carrying same component formula, dosage and usage.  
2. Same series products carrying same dosage and usage with only difference in pigments or spices 
and/or essence of component formula.  
3. Combination products referring to those products including more than two cosmetics products 
which are not able to be supplied, sold, gave away, public display, or offer ed consumer trial . 
 
Article 7 Changes of cosmetics product data notification  may be by amendment except for the 
change involving components, which shall be made by re -notification  its data notification . 
 
Article 8 Th e valid period for cosmetics product data notification  is three years. If after the three year 
term, products are still supplied, sold, gave away, public display, or offer ed consumer trial , the data 
notification  valid period shall be extended three months prior to its expiration.  
 
Article 9 The data notification  shall be disapproved if there is any of the following:  
1. Data notification  denied pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 22, Paragraph 2 of Article 23, 
Paragraph 2 of Article 24 of the Act.  
2. Products conta ining any components prohibited to be used via the announcement made by the 
central  competent authorities.  
3. Incomplete data notification  pursuant to  Article 4 . 
 
Article 10 Data notification  made by those Cosmetics Manufacturers or Importers  who are dissolve d 
or have closed its business, or whose corporation registration, business registration, factory 
registration or other equivalent registration or permits were withdrawn or abolished, shall be 
revoked.  
Cosmetics Manufacturers or Importers  may revoke data notification  of a product if the product is no 
longer supplied, sold, gave away, public display, or offer ed consumer trial . 
 
Article 11 The  central  competent authorities shall rescind  the data notification  if found products, 
after completion of data notifica tion, are not cosmetics defined under Sub -paragraph 1 of Paragraph 
1 of Article 3 of the Act.  
 
Article 12  This Regulation shall take effect on J uly 1, 2019.