China: A Thing of Beauty New Regulations Coming for Cosmetics

• Citation: jd0098
• Date: 27 March 2019
• Published date: 27/03/2019
• Subject Matter: Administrative Law

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China: A Thing of Beauty New Regulations

Coming for Cosmetics

By King & Wood Mallesons on March 27, 2019

作者：肖马克 刘冠男 郑未 金杜律师事务所

Background

Cosmetics is big business in mainland China and growing. Data from China’s National

Bureau of Statistics suggests total retail sales of cosmetics in China in 2018 exceeded

RMB 260 billion and a year-on-year growth of almost 10%.[1]

The size and growth of the Chinese cosmetics market has not gone unnoticed by the

authorities. The PRC authorities are now overhauling the system to better regulate the

cosmetics industry.

The Regulations on Hygiene Supervision of Cosmetics (<化妆品卫生监督条例>)

(“Current Regulation”)[2] are the most important and also primary regulation that

currently governs the production of cosmetics and the operation of cosmetics companies

in China. As the Current Regulation was passed a long time ago (actually when there was

still a Soviet Union) and a lot has happened in China ever since, it is more and more

obvious that the Current Regulation is too outdated to deal with new issues that continue

to emerge in the cosmetics industry.