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15 December 2017
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 1152/2017
European Union (EU)* : Amendment to Regulation on Cosmetic Products
Further to Commercial Information Circular No. 680/2017 dated 9 August 2017, the European Commission has adopted a Regulation and subsequently published a corrigendum to this Regulation to amend Annex III of Regulation (EC) No. 1223/2009 concerning the use of cosmetic products containing peanut oil, its extracts and its derivatives; and hydrolysed wheat proteins. Details are set out in Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2228 and the corrigendum respectively, which can be accessed through the following links:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R2228&from=EN
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R2228R(01)&from=EN
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2.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5556.
Yours faithfully,
(Charles LO)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
* The EU member countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
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