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Horizon 2045: four scenarios to prepare for the future

To mark CEW France’s “Journé de la Beauté 2026”, an innovative session broke with the usual round-table format. Olivier Parent (Director of Prospective Studies at Comptoir Prospectiviste), Frédérique Lenglen (Strategic Communications Advisor) and Karine Cottin (Senior Advisor, Inspire Positive Change) presented the Biotech 2045 Forecasting Capsule, a project initiated by Jean-Yves Berthon, Chairman of Greentech, in partnership with Burson and Comptoir Prospectiviste. The task: to imagine four po...

Retail in the age of the experience

To mark CEW France’s Beauty Day 2026, a round-table discussion brought together Catherine Spindler (President of Sephora for Europe and the Middle East) and Hubert de Malherbe (Director of the design agency Malherbe Paris) to address a single question: what will the shop of the future look like in ten years’ time? Their answers both centre on experience and emotion.

Impact, comparison, brand and stocks in Directive (EU) 2024/825

During a webinar held on 12 June 2026, Ambroise Pascal, the DGCCRF’s Ecological Transition Officer, and his team addressed the key issues raised by the entry into force of Directive (EU) 2024/825, which aims to combat commercial practices amounting to greenwashing. The final section of their presentation covered claims of carbon neutrality, comparison services, brands and product names, and the is...

Claims in Directive (EU) 2024/825

During a webinar held on June 12, 2026, Ambroise Pascal, the DGCCRF’s Delegate for Ecological Transition, and his team addressed the main issues raised by the implementation of Directive (EU) 2024/825, which aims to combat commercial practices that amount to greenwashing. The second part of their presentation focused on generic environmental claims and future environmental claims.

Sustainability labels in Directive (EU) 2024/825

During a webinar held on 12 June 2026, Ambroise Pascal, the DGCCRF’s Ecological Transition Officer, and his team addressed the key issues raised by the entry into force of Directive (EU) 2024/825, which aims to combat commercial practices amounting to greenwashing. The first major section of their presentation focused on sustainability labels (and the subsequent question-and-answer session).

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Brexit: the implications for customs

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As the “No-deal” scenario (the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union on 30 March 2019 without agreement) becomes increasingly feared, voices a...

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Nanomaterials: the right characterization to comply with regulations

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The idea is widespread that there are currently insufficient analytical methods available to characterize nanomaterials and adequately address the req...

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

FEBEA information meeting "New rules for cosmetic claims": the Q&A session

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On 16 January 2019, FEBEA organised an information meeting on the new rules applicable to cosmetic claims as from next 1 July. After explaining why, h...

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Critical regulatory developments around the world

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The United Kingdom and its Brexit, China and the United States are not the only countries in the world where regulatory developments are impacting the...

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Preservatives: who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

Often banned by the consumerist press, they are considered dangerous ingredients although essential to the preservation of cosmetics. During a worksho...

Monday, January 7, 2019

Packaging safety assessment: the latest developments

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How does packaging affect the safety of the cosmetic product, what information must be made available by the supplier to enable this impact to be asse...

Friday, January 4, 2019

The impacts of Brexit on cosmetic companies

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Nothing is simple when it comes to Brexit. Neither the political negotiations nor the management of the impacts that the withdrawal of the United King...

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Preserving preservatives: the Cosmetics Europe action plan

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They are suspicious in the eyes of consumers and at the heart of the attention of the authorities, who are tending to regulate and limit them more and...

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

The value of cosmetovigilance

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Article 23 of the Cosmetics Regulation requires the communication of serious adverse reactions related to the use of cosmetics to the control authorit...

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Perfumes: the regulatory requirements

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Alcohol, fragrance composition and its related ingredients… a perfume is a particular cosmetic product, which depends of course on Cosmetics Regulatio...

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Reduce surfactants? The Greentech's solution

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When it’s less, it’s better? This is sometimes also true in cosmetics. Raw material suppliers are therefore competing with each other in their imagina...

Monday, December 17, 2018

United States: towards a tightening of cosmetics regulations?

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Unlike some countries, the cosmetics regulations in the United States are considered to be quite flexible. This “laxity” is not to the liking of some ...