The European Cosmetics Associatione

LINKS

Members

• Active Corporate Members
  
• Active Association Members
  
• Supporting or Corresponding members
  

Other Associations

• Japan Cosmetic Industry Association
  
• The Personal Care Products Council (US)
  

European Institutions

• Europa Server
  The European Institutions On Line

European Commission

• The Directorates General and Services
  
• DG Enterprise
  Responsible for Cosmetics Directive
• DG Health and Consumer Protection
  Has scientific Committees, i.e. the Scientific Committee on Health and Animal Welfare and the Scientific Committee on Consumer Products.
• DG Research
  Runs and prepares research programmes
• DG Environment
  Concerned with statistics on use of experimental animals
• CELEX Database on the Web
  Full text coverage of European Union legal acts - Available via subscription
• EUR-Lex
  Free access to EU Official Journal L & C
• Press Room
  News from the Spokesman's midday briefings - Daily update around 1.00 PM CET
• Office for Official Publications of the EC
  
• Press Room RAPID
  The Spokesman's Service of the European Commission - RAPID is a database giving a daily view of the activities of the European Union as presented by the Institutions in their press releases
• ECVAM
  The European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods of the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP)
• RTD Info
  Information on European research policy, strategy and projects
• CORDIS
  European Community Research and Development Information Service
• Eurostat
  Statistical Office of the European Communities
• Market Access Database
  
• RISC
  European Commission Information Chemical Sector Network

European Parliament

• Europarl
  European Parliament Web Server
• Members European Parliament
  
• Press releases from the European Parliament
  

Other Institutions

• The Council of the European Union
  
• The Court of Justice of the European Communities
  
• The European Investment Bank
  
• The European Court of Auditors
  
• Committee of Regions
  
• Economic and Social Committee
  

International Institutions

• WHO
  World Health Organization
• OECD
  Organisation for Economic Development

Research (Europe)

• Creme Software
  Software and Consultancy Services to Evaluate Exposure Levels in Cosmetics & Chemicals
• IFSCC
  International Federation of Societies of Cosmetics Chemists
• In vitro testing industrial platform
  
• FRAME
  The Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments - with numerous links to the world of in vitro testing
• 3R Research Foundation
  
• ECVAM
  The European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods
• ECOPA
  The European Consensus-Platform for Alternatives
• ESTIV
  European Society of Toxicology in Vitro
• Eurotox
  linking all toxicology societies in Europe
• INVITTOX
  Database
• Austrian Centre for Alternative and Complementary Methods to Animal Testing
  
• The Netherlands Centre Alternatives to animal use
  
• German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
  

Research (USA)

• US National Toxicology Programme Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods
  
• ICCVAM
  The USA Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods.
• CAAT
  The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
• Institute of In Vitro Sciences
  For information and execution of tests in the USA

Animal Welfare

• European legislation related to Protection of animals
  
• European Protocol on animal Welfare
  
• Council Directive 86/609/EEC
  of 24 November 1986 on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States regarding the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes
• European Convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used for experiments and other scientific purposes
  
• 90/67/EEC
  European Commission Decision of 9 February 1990 setting up an Advisory Committee on the Protection of Animals Used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes
• UK legislation related to Animal Welfare
  
• German Animal Welfare Act
  
• Animal Welfare Information Center of the US Agricultural Library
  

Other

• European Cosmetics Directory
  The European Directory for Public Access enabling you to make contact with cosmetic companies in the EU member states, Norway and Switzerland
• The Downstream Users of Chemicals Co-ordination Group
  
• EU Member States Contacts Competent authorities
  
• COSING
  The European Commission database with information on cosmetic ingredients
• Consolidated version of Cosmetics directive
  
• SCCP
  The Scientific Committee for Consumer Products
• Lisbon programme
  
• Tips & Tricks for applying Cosmetics
  Providing all the necessary information of cosmetics and provides tips and tricks for apply cosmetics
• The Facts About
  
• Parlons Cosmétiques
  
• ABC Cosmetici