EU LEGAL SIMPLIFICATION PROGRAMME
November 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Commission is to simplify the European Union's cosmetics industry rulebook, rolling 45 directives into one piece of legislation, under a comprehensive legal rationalisation programme. It has announced that Directive 76/768/EEC on cosmetic products and seven subsequent amendments - as well as 37 adaptations to technical progress and two directives postponing the prohibition of animal tests - will be codified and written into one new directive. In this way, companies will find it easier to understand their duties under EU law, rather ...
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