Original source
Scientific opinion
Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) — Opinions
- Official date
- 2026-04-16
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Official source. SCCS opinions portal
Key points
- SCCS = scientific committee. Commission = legislator for 1223/2009 annexes.
- Preliminary opinions invite comment; final opinions can still wait years for an annex regulation.
- Always pair an opinion number with a later OJ citation before changing artwork.
- CosIng is a help desk, not the legal annex.
Dates. Standing process. Check the opinions list for the current year.
Verify in the official text. Whether a given INCI is only in an opinion or already in an annex amending regulation.
Open questions. Confirm any transitional stock rules and whether your exact INCI / product type is named. This desk brief is a prioritisation aid, not a legal determination.
What changed: Reminder of how to read 2026 SCCS output versus binding annex law.
Who is affected: SME RA and founders who receive ingredient scare-forwards.
Suggested next steps: Build an opinion-vs-annex tracker. Do not brief retailers from a preliminary PDF.
SCCS publishes opinions on ingredient safety. They inform later Commission regulations; they do not themselves amend Annex II/III.
If your chemist forwards every opinion as a recall, you will reformulate twice and still miss the real 2023/1545 artwork date.
This week: install a two-bucket tracker — “opinion only” vs “named in a Commission regulation”. Move a substance only when EUR-Lex moves.
Confidence: this process advice is stable; the content of any single 2026 opinion must be read on the Commission page.
Official text
Extract from the official English instrument
Official English from the European Commission SCCS pages.
The Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) provides the Commission with scientific advice on health and safety risks of non-food consumer products (for example cosmetic products and their ingredients).
SCCS opinions are published on the Commission’s SCCS opinions page. They are scientific advice to the Commission. Amendments to the annexes of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 are made by Commission regulation published in the Official Journal, not by the opinion itself.