The Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry

The Union supports the EU Commission ambition to accelerate the transition to a circular economy, while ensuring EU-wide harmonization and simplification. The Circular Economy Act is great opportunity to streamline and clarify the EU legislation through targeted revisions of EU rules and the introduction of new measures.

The Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry welcomes the European Commission's proposal for a Directive on the substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims. The Union supports its overarching objective of tackling greenwashing and the need to develop a harmonised EU legal framework for environmental claims.

The cosmetics industry in Poland shares the European Commission views with regards to the impact of climate change by 2050. The Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry welcomes the European Commission’s European Green Deal announcement and its goals.

The Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry supports the European Unions objectives related to industrial decarbonisation, circular economy and the development of sustainable, bio-based value chains. Our sector has already invested significantly in sustainable packaging, circularity initiatives, reformulation efforts, responsible sourcing and innovation involving renewable and bio-based ingredients.

The Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry, representing over 270 companies operating in Poland, welcomed with high expectations the announcement of the Environmental Omnibus VIII Unfortunately, the outcome of the Omnibus is deeply disappointing.

The Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry welcomes the approach presented by the European Commission in the draft decision to set legal rules for the chemical recycling, to enable including the recyclates obtained from chemical recycling in the legally binding targets and set methodologies for counting the chemical recyclates.

The CPR is one of the most important and comprehensive legal framework in the European, provides a high level of consumer protection, ensuring that cosmetics placed on the EU market are safe. Cosmetics are an essential products, providing a positive impact on health prevention (sun protection products, oral care products and many others).

The revision of Directive 2019/633 on unfair trading practices (UTPD) should take into account the changes that have occurred in the market in recent years. The ongoing consolidation of retail and the development of international buying alliances have significantly increased buyers bargaining power vis-à-vis suppliers, not only in the agri-food sector, but across the entire consumer goods segment.

The Polih Union of the Cosmetics Industry supports the objectives of the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and coherence of safety assessments across EU legislation. However, the Union would like to reiterate that the SCCS needs to continue being a stand-alone committee within ECHA.

The Polish Union of Cosmetics Industry hereby presents comments to the Call for Evidence regarding a „Proposal for a basic regulation of the European Chemicals Agency” with a particular focus on the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS).

The Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry strongly welcomes timely presentation of the draft regulation on the format of reporting of the discarded products according to the ESPR regulation. Also, we appreciate the simple format of reporting, and optimal granularity. Some of our postulates raised within the ingoing discussion were addressed.

The Polish Union of the Cosmetics Industry welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing evaluation of the Market Surveillance Regulation (EU) 2019/1020. We fully support the European Commissions efforts to strengthen the enforcement of product compliance across the Single Market, especially given the sharp increase in non-compliant and counterfeit products entering the EU market via online channels and…