European Economic Community Directives ** And a Directive on Cosmetics

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Hey y'all,

 

I reckon I am back on now .. but Martin is also having problems

getting on .. so he sent this one for me to pass along. Y'all keep in

mind that the more you try to control people the more you find a need to

control people .. and the more regulations you put out the more

difficult it becomes to enforce them .. or even to interpret them in the

courts. But .. if the goal is to build a larger bureaucratic

infrastructure, as I have always accused the EU of wanting to do .. then

it will do that job. I'm thinking that they already have far more folks

hired in their gummit structure than we do in the USA .. difference is,

of course, that in the USA we are not YET at the point where we take

half your money and then dole it back to you when you need it. The

American gummit can be better controlled by the people because of our

system of electing senators every two years and representatives every

four .. and we never vote for parties as is the case in parliamentary

systems.

 

Having lived in a country that has a Parliament (Turkey) since 1988 this

trip, I have closely observed what happens in such systems. Individuals

are not held responsible .. they are sheltered by the party that is then

in power .. and the party itself is too large to be held responsible for

things simply because they can lay the blame on those they protect and

eventually matters are forgotten. Its a game. Butch

 

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For years on my own website and when I used to be on IDMA, I have been

warning of what will happen if the people in the natural therapies field

take no action against the European bureaucrats. Instead of raising

concerns within our community, our trade representatives simply bow down

to these idiots and fall for compromises in order to feather their own

nests. The EEC is a gravy train of well funded committees mainly of

vested trade interests with very little real public participation.

 

I maintain that many of the regulations being put in place by the EEC

bureaucrats are illegal under the Treaty of Rome on which the community

was founded. See www.aromamedical.com for more on this.

 

Complaints to MEPs are ignored and they rarely reply to questions.

 

Complaints to the Commission are also ignored because they are set up in

such a manner no one knows who is doing what. A good example of that

was recently when their own auditors said they could only account for

10% of the commissions vast budget.

 

For those that do not know it, the European Commission itself is NOT a

democratic organisation. The President is appointed by the heads of

Governments and the commission members are not accountable to the

public. Only the MEPs themselves are elected, but, apathy of the public

is so high that often only 20% of the electorate even bother to vote.

 

Ninety-five percent of the trade will just ignore these European regs

like they have with everything else they produce. The cosmetics regs

have been in place for years, but many AT suppliers still produce

cosmetics without proper compliance with the regs. You will find French

AT sites peppered with illegal medicinal claims but nothing is done.

 

The EEC do not have a police system for their laws, they leave it to

each Government to enforce them. The laws will only be applied in the UK

if some local trading standards department wants to mount a test case.

That is pretty unlikely as they have 1000 other things to do.

 

The laws will be obeyed by some British companies, the French will of

course ignore them and the cowboys in our trade will continue as usual.

The big concern is that the US, Canadian and other Governments will grab

these Euro laws as a precedent. Ok here we know the enforcement will be

peanuts, but what other Governments will do is open to question.

 

Martin

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And here folks is something else Martin passed to me .. and his

comments. Hope y'all enjoy reading all them articles .. and keep in mind

that folks whut done wrote them get the big bucks they do. ;-p Butch

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Attached is a new directive on cosmetic products that they have

produced. Look at that symbol at the foot! I mean what cosmetic house

on Earth can tell you how many months a product will last beyond 30

months. The rate of decay depends on how the product is stored, how

it's used, chemical degradation (highly variable dependent on storage),

contamination, etc. It just means manufacturers will have to put

another stupid symbol on the packages and Joe Public will not have a

clue what it means. Soon the makers of that small pot of cream will

need to sell a computer with it to cover the documentation.

 

This is not new it has been going on for two years at least. Martin

 

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COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2003/80/EC of 5 September 2003

 

establishing a symbol indicating the durability of cosmetic products in

Annex VIIIa to Council Directive 76/768/EEC

 

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

 

Having regard to Council Directive 76/768/EEC of 27 July 1976 on the

approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to cosmetic

products (1), as last amended by Directive 2003/15/EC of the European

Parliament and of the Council (2),

 

Having regard to Directive 2003/15/EC, in particular Article 1(11)

thereof,

 

Whereas:

(1) In order to improve the information provided to consumers, cosmetic

products should bear more precise indications concerning their

durability.

 

(2) For cosmetic products with a shelf life of 30 months or more, there

should be an indication of the period of time after opening for which

the product can be used without any harm to the consumer.

 

(3) For this purpose, a symbol followed by the said period (in months

and/or years) is provided for under Article 6(1)© of Council Directive

76/768/EEC.

 

(4) The measures provided for by this Directive are in accordance

with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Cosmetic Products,

 

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Annex VIIIa to Directive 76/768/EEC shall include the symbol which

appears in the Annex to this Directive.

 

Article 2

Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and

administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 11

September 2004. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the

text of those provisions and a correlation table between those

provisions and this Directive.

 

When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a reference

to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference on the

occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such

reference shall be laid down by Member States.

 

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the third day following its

publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

 

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 5 September 2003.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission

6.9.2003 L 224/27 Official Journal of the European Union EN

(1) OJ L 262, 27.9.1976, p. 169.

(2) OJ L 66, 11.3.2003, p. 26.

 

ANNEX

 

Symbol representing an open cream jar as provided for in Article 6(1)©

of Council Directive 76/768/EEC (1).

 

(MY NOTE ** I know you might find this hard to believe .. but there is a

symbol of a jar with the top off on this document .. I can't get it to

come out on this post .. but if you wanna see what it looks like, just

ask your three-year old to draw a hatbod with circle over it. ) Butch

 

6.9.2003 L 224/28 Official Journal of the European Union EN

(1) OJ L 262, 27.9.1976, p. 169. Directive as last amended by Article

1(3) of Directive 2003/15/EC.