Commission Directive 2007/1/EC of 29 January 2007 amending Council Directive 76/768/EEC, concerning cosmetic products, for the purposes of adapting Annex II thereof to technical progress   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-01-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: analytical chemistry, approximation of laws, consumer protection, cosmetic product, dyestuffs industry, product safety, technological change

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DIRECTIVES

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2007/1/EC

of 29 January 2007

amending Council Directive 76/768/EEC, concerning cosmetic products,

for the purposes of

adapting Annex II thereof to technical progress

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 76/768/EEC of 27 July 1976
on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating
to cosmetic products (1), and in particular Article 8(2) thereof,

consulting the Scientific Committee on Consumer

After
Products (SCCP),

(5)

(6)

(7)

As no new further scientific data were submitted to
the SCCP before 31 July 2006 for
the evaluation
N,N′-dihexadecyl-N,N′-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)propane-
of
diamide, that substance should be included in Annex II.

Directive 76/768/EEC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for
accordance with
opinion
Committee on Cosmetic Products,

the

in this Directive are in
Standing
the

of

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

scientific studies,

Following the opinions of the SCCP issued on the basis
of
the Commission together with
Member States and stakeholders agreed on an overall
strategy to regulate hair dye substances according to
which the industry was required to submit files with
scientific data on hair dye substances to be evaluated
by the SCCP.

for which no explicit

The substances
interest was
expressed during the public consultation in defence of
their use in hair dyes and for which no updated safety
files were submitted to allow an adequate risk assessment
should be included in Annex II.

The substance 4-amino-3-fluorophenol has until now
been considered to be covered by the general entry,
reference number 22, concerning aniline,
its salts and
its halogenated and sulphonated derivatives. However,
as
that 4-amino-3-fluorophenol
belongs to that aniline family a specific entry for that
substance should be included in Annex II.

is not obvious

it

For the sake of clarity,
the substance epoxiconazole
should be moved from the separate reference number
1182 to reference number 663 in Annex II
to
Directive 76/768/EEC.

(1) OJ L 262, 27.9.1976, p. 169. Directive as last amended by
Commission Directive 2006/78/EC (OJ L 271, 30.9.2006, p. 56).

Article 1

Annex II to Directive 76/768/EEC is amended in accordance
with the Annex to this Directive.

Article 2

Member States shall ensure that with effect from 21 February
2008, cosmetic products which fail
to comply with this
Directive are not sold or disposed of to the final consumer.

Article 3

the latest,

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 21 August
the laws, regulations and administrative
2007 at
provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall
forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those
provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and
this Directive.

They shall apply those provisions from 21 November 2007.

When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member
States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

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2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law
which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 5

Done at Brussels, 29 January 2007.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

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ANNEX

Annex II to Directive 76/768/EEC is amended as follows:

1. The following reference numbers 1234 to 1243 are added:

Ref. No

Chemical name/INCI name

‘1234

PEG-3,2′,2′-di-p-Phenylenediamine

1235

6-Nitro-o-Toluidine

1236

HC Yellow No 11

1237

HC Orange No 3

1238

HC Green No 1

1239

HC Red No 8 and its salts

1240

Tetrahydro-6-nitroquinoxaline and its salts

1241

Disperse Red 15, except as impurity in Disperse Violet 1

1242

4-amino-3-fluorophenol

1243

N,N′-dihexadecyl-N,N′-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)propanediamide
Bishydroxyethyl Biscetyl Malonamide

2. The entry under reference number 1182 is deleted.

CAS No

144644-13-3

570-24-1

73388-54-2

81612-54-6

52136-25-1

97404-14-3,
13556-29-1

158006-54-3,
41959-35-7

116-85-8

399-95-1

149591-38-8’

3. Reference number 663 is replaced by the following:

triazol-1-yl)methyl]oxirane; epoxiconazole (CAS No 133855-98-8)’.

‘(2RS,3RS)-3-(2-Chlorophenyl)-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-[1H-1,2,4-