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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).

Monday, April 28, 2025

Introduction to the future Digital Product Passport

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The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is not yet in place, but it is provided for in the European Ecodesign Regulation. And it will apply to cosmetics, a...

Monday, April 14, 2025

The French DGCCRF's Q&A at Cosmed's Regulatory Congress

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At Cosmed’s 25th Regulatory Congress on March 26, 2025, DGCCRF representatives answered questions from congress delegates following their presentation...

Monday, April 14, 2025

European 2025 JACOP for cosmetics

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During her presentation at Cosmed’s 25th Regulatory Congress on March 26, 2025, DG Grow’s Sylwia Jaczewska focused on JACOP (Joint Actions on Complian...

Monday, March 31, 2025

What destiny for p-cymene... and essential oils containing it?

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Ever since ECHA’s RAC (Risk Assessment Committee) came out in favor of classifying p-cymene as a Repr. 1B substance, foreshadowing a forthcoming cosme...

Monday, March 31, 2025

An update on GMPs controls in France

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Since January 1, 2024 in France, the DGCCRF has been in charge of GMP control in France. But at Cosmed’s 25th Regulatory Congress on March 26, 2025, V...

Monday, March 3, 2025

The fitness check of the Cosmetics Regulation from the point of view of the European Commission

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The European Commission launched the fitness check of Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009 on 21 February 2025. On the 24th, the CRCC (Congress on Cosmetic ...

Monday, February 24, 2025

How to obtain the EU Ecolabel

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During a webinar organised by the European Commission in December 2024, Georgia Faraca from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre detailed t...

Monday, February 17, 2025

The opportunities of the European Ecolabel for cosmetic products

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It has been around since 1992, but given the current regulatory context, it seems to be more attractive than ever. During a webinar organised by the E...

Monday, February 17, 2025

State regulations in the United States

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Although the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA) applies at federal level to all 50 US states, each state has the right to adopt its own...

Monday, February 10, 2025

MoCRA: the first feedbacks

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With these new obligations (registration of establishments and notification of products, reporting of serious undesirable effects, etc.), the Moderniz...

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Packaging sustainability in the new PPWR era

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It has just been published and is one of the most complex pieces of European legislation. At Cosmetic Valley’s 22nd Congress on Regulatory Issues - Fr...

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Sunscreen products: the use of SPF boosters

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Why use boosters in sunscreen? And which ones to choose? During the Cosmetic Days organised by Cosmed at the beginning of December 2024, Audrey Le Boh...