Commission Directive 2007/67/EC of 22 November 2007 amending Council Directive 76/768/EEC, concerning cosmetic products, for the purpose of adapting Annex III thereto to technical progress (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-11-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: chemical product, consumer protection, cosmetic product, disclosure of information, product safety, technological change

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DIRECTIVES

COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2007/67/EC

of 22 November 2007

amending Council Directive 76/768/EEC, concerning cosmetic products, for the purpose of adapting
Annex III thereto to technical progress

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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,

Whereas:

(5)

(6)

For 42 hair dye substances listed in Part 2 of Annex III
to Directive 76/768/EEC additional information has been
submitted by the industry. This information is currently
being evaluated by the SCCP. Definitive regulation of
those hair dye
such
evaluations, and its implementation into the laws of
Member States will take place at the latest by the 31
December 2009. Therefore,
their provisional use in
cosmetic products under the restrictions and conditions
thereto should be
laid down in Part 2 of Annex III
extended until 31 December 2009.

substances, on the basis of

Annex III to 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

(1)

(2)

(3)

strategy for hair dye
According to the assessment
substances,
it was agreed with the Member States and
stakeholders that the date of July 2005 would be appro-
priate for the submission to the Scientific Committee on
Consumer Products (SCCP) of the additional information
on the hair dye substances listed in Part 2 of Annex III to
Directive 76/768/EEC.

Commission Directive 2006/65/EC of 19 July 2006
amending Council Directive 76/768/EEC, concerning
cosmetic products,
adapting
for
thereto to technical progress (2),
II and III
Annexes
extended until 31 December 2007 the provisional use
of
fifty six hair dye substances listed in Part 2 of
Annex III.

the purpose of

For 14 hair dye substances listed in Part 2 of Annex III
to Directive 76/768/EEC additional information has not
been submitted. Therefore their use in hair dye products
was banned by Directive 2007/54/EC.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In reference numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36,
37, 38, 39, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, and 60 of
column g in Part 2 of Annex III to Directive 76/768/EEC, the
date ‘31.12.2007’ is replaced by ‘31.12.2009’.

Article 2

the latest,

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 December
2007 at
the laws, regulations and administrative
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.

(1) OJ L 262, 27.9.1976, p. 169. Directive as last amended by
Commission Directive 2007/54/EC (OJ L 226, 30.8.2007, p. 21).

(2) OJ L 198, 20.7.2006, p. 11.

They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 2008.

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

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 that of its publication in the Official Journal of
the European Union.

Article 3

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 22 November 2007.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President