Cosmetics Regulation 1223/2009

Regulation 1223/2009 is the statute under which cosmetic products may be placed on the EU market. It matters to data buyers because it defines both the authority and the boundary of Europe's ingredient inventory, CosIng:

• Legal force. CosIng's own terms note that 'only information provided by Regulation 1223/2009 and its amendments has legal value' - everything else in the database is contextual.
• Geographic scope. CosIng's coverage field reads 'European Union (Regulation 1223/2009 scope)', so the inventory maps to the regulation's territory, not to global cosmetics law.
• Tagging. The CosIng record is tagged 'eu regulation 1223/2009', making the regulation the dataset's organizing concept.

Ingredient databases blur the line between law and literature. Without the regulation as an anchor, buyers cannot tell which entries would survive an inspection and which are advisory.

• Binding versus informational. Annex restrictions trace back to the regulation; SCCS opinions do not. Treating the second kind as the first is a compliance error.
• Scope limits claims. A status derived from CosIng applies inside the EU market defined by Regulation 1223/2009 - extending it to other jurisdictions is unsupported extrapolation.
• Personal-care sourcing decisions depend on it. See how this plays out across the personal-care-products data catalog.

1. Ask which fields carry legal weight. A credible source reproduces CosIng's own distinction: only Regulation 1223/2009 content and its amendments bind.

1. Check the stated scope. Coverage should say 'European Union (Regulation 1223/2009 scope)' - anything broader is mixing inventories.

1. Trace annex references. Bans and restrictions should resolve to annex cross-references under the regulation, not to blog summaries.

1. Keep SCCS opinions separate. Scientific opinions inform status but are not themselves law; the data model should keep the layers distinct.

1. Watch amendment currency. Since amendments carry the same legal value as the original text, a snapshot without amendment tracking ages fast.

CosIng concepts defined by or dependent on the regulation: - annex restriction — The annex mechanism of EU cosmetics law that bans or restricts particular substances, surfaced in CosIng as annex cross-references attached to each ingredient and substance record. - non binding ingredient inventory — A reference inventory where an ingredient's presence carries no legal effect: CosIng states only Regulation 1223/2009 content has legal value and that inclusion does not create a positive list of permitted substances. - sccs opinion — Safety-assessment opinions recorded against individual substances in CosIng and returned as dedicated SCCS fields in its search API, marking the scientific-review context behind an ingredient's regulatory status.