Cosmetic Products
National legislation
Act implementing the Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 Cosmetic Products (recast)
Official Gazette, No. 18/2013 and 115/2018
EU legislation
Competent authority
Ministry of Health
Email: helpdesk.predmeti_opce_uporabe@miz.hr
Phone: +385 1 46 07 555
Web: https://zdravlje.gov.hr/
Scope of application
Marketing of cosmetic products
Main requirements that the business user needs to know about
Requirements laid down in Directive (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on Cosmetic Products (recast) (OJ L 342 of 22 December 2009)
National action
Act implementing the Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 Cosmetic Products (recast) (Official Gazette no. 18/2013 and 115/2018)
Script and language of the notification on cosmetic product
Article 5
(1) Information given in the product notification for cosmetic products not packaged as finished products, which are packaged at the point of sale at the request of customers or which are repackaged for direct sales, must be written using latin script in Croatian language, with legible, visible and non-erasable letters.
(2) Information from Article 19, paragraph 1, points b, c, d and f and Article 19, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 provided in the product notification for cosmetic products, that are available to end user on the teritorry of the Republic of Croatia, must be written using latin script in Croatian language, with legible, visible and non-erasable letters.
Article 19 - paragraphh 5 of the Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on Cosmetic Products (recast) (OJ L 342 of 22 December 2009) lays down that the languge in which the information from points (b), (c), (d) and (f) of paragraph 1, and from paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Article 19 is determined by the legislation of the member states in which the product is available to the end user, and it thus then lays down an option to use national language regarding prescribing the manner in which the cosmetic products are labelled.
Market Surveillance Authority
State Inspectorate
Catalogue of Croatian Standards
Link to the TRIS database
In the TRIS database you can look up the notification of the technical rule