The European Union has just published Regulation (EU) 2025/877, the 7th annual text aiming to ban or regulate substances recently classified as CMR. It confirms the new bans on two ingredients with INCI names and applies from 1 September 2025.
The key points of Regulation (EU) 2025/877
• This Regulation transposes the classification of substances as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction (CMR), adopted in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/197 (21st ATP to CLP), into Regulation Cosmetics 1223/2009.
• 21 substances are added to Annex II (Prohibited substances) of European Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009.
• Two of these have INCI names, Trimethylbenzoyl Diphenylphosphine Oxide and Dimethyltolylamine.
• The industry has not submitted a dossier in defence of these substances.
• The Regulation will come into force on 1 September 2025.
The “Whereas” of Regulation (EU) 2025/877
(1) Regulation (EC) No.1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council provides for a harmonised classification of substances as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (CMR) based on a scientific assessment by the Risk Assessment Committee of the European Chemicals Agency. The substances are classified as CMR substances of category 1A, category 1B or category 2 depending on the level of evidence of their CMR properties.
(2) Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No.1223/2009 provides that substances which have been classified as CMR substances of category 1A, 1B or 2 under Part 3 of Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No.1272/2008 (CMR substances) …
