CPNP notification, explained

CPNP is the EU’s Cosmetic Products Notification Portal — the central register where every cosmetic product must be notified before it is placed on the EU market. Notification is Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009, it is free of charge, and it is separate from your PIF and your CPSR: the PIF is the dossier you keep at home, the CPSR is the assessment inside it, and CPNP is the registration you file online. You need all three.

Who notifies

The Responsible Person — for a maker producing and selling their own products inside the EU, normally you. You create an account once (via the EU Login system), then notify each product. A distributor who translates your label or sells your product in another member state under their own name has notification duties of their own.

What the form asks for

• Product category and name(s) — in each language it is sold under.
• Your details as Responsible Person, and a contact person for authorities.
• Member state of first placing on the market, and country of origin if imported.
• Formulation information for poison centres — typically a frame formulation reference or the composition; this is the part your recipe records feed directly.
• Nanomaterials and CMR substances — declared specifically if present.
• The label, and a photo of the packaging when available — at the latest when the product is marketed.

Per product, and after changes

Each product is notified once for the whole EU — no per-country filing. Shades of one product can often be grouped in a single notification. When the information changes — a reformulation, a new label, a new Responsible Person — the notification must be updated without delay.

What CPNP is not

It is not an approval. Nobody reviews your notification and blesses the product; notifying does not make an unsafe or non-compliant product legal. It exists so poison centres and market-surveillance authorities know what is on the market and what is in it.

The fields CPNP asks for are the same facts a tidy workshop already holds — exact recipe, category, label. Alchemis compiles a CPNP-ready worksheet from your recipe and dossier data (fields it can’t know are flagged as required, never guessed) so the portal session is copy-paste rather than archaeology. The submission itself always happens in the portal, by you.

Advisory, not legal advice. The portal and its manuals live at the European Commission’s site — search for “CPNP” at ec.europa.eu.