BREXIT

The EU and Member States are preparing for Brexit and encourage stakeholders to do so as well. The European Commission recently published a preparedness notice for the cosmetics industry laying out the consequences of a no-deal Brexit and containing important changes with regard to “responsible person”, notifications in the CPNP (the cosmetics portal), product information file, labelling and safety assessor. More

Faced with the suspension of the UK parliament for five weeks in the months of September and October, British MPs voted on 3 September to take control of the parliamentary timetable. This paves the way for a vote to extend the date of the UK leaving the EU to 31 January 2020. The UK Prime Minister has responded by seeking a snap election which he claims will take place before 31 October, the current departure date of the UK. More

In a shocking but not wholly unexpected twist to the raging Brexit saga, the UK government has made arrangements on 28 August 2019 for the suspension of the UK’s parliament for five weeks. This period will occur before 31 October, which is the day on which the UK is scheduled to leave the EU. More

On 16 July 2019, Ursula von der Leyen was elected as the first female president of the European Commission. She won the support of 383 members of the European Parliament, by promising a European ‘Green Deal’ and focusing on the environment. More