BRUSSELS — EU member countries are set to reject the European Commission’s proposal to relax rules on the use of certain cancer-causing chemicals in cosmetics, in an embarrassing setback for the EU executive‘s simplification agenda.
In draft amendments to the Commission’s chemicals omnibus bill, seen by POLITICO, the Council has removed in its entirety a section that has proved the most controversial item in the proposal.
That section introduced an exemption for the use of carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic substances, or CMRs, from the Cosmetic Products Regulation where those substances only pose a risk if they are ingested or inhaled.
“The Commission proposal regarding exemption for CMR substances based on oral or inhalation route of exposure is deleted from the compromise proposal,” reads the document, dated Oct. 31.
