Cosmetics Law
The marketing of cosmetic products is a demanding business activity if companies want to avoid legal disputes. Existing regulations governing cosmetics provide only unclear criteria regarding the demarcation between cosmetic products, medicinal products, foodstuffs and biocides. Advertising, labeling and composition of cosmetic products pose further challenges.
Our legal services encompass the following key areas:
- marketability of cosmetics, demarcation from medicinal products, medical devices, foodstuffs and biocides
- advertising and labeling cosmetics, in particular the use of health claims
- problems involving certain ingredients, quality management
- contract manufacturing
- product liability cases, administrative warnings
- importation of cosmetics, in particular from Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands
- petitioning and maintaining import exemptions
- mail-order distribution of cosmetics (e.g. internet, home shopping)
- registering and maintaining cosmetics trademarks
- drafting license and distribution agreements
- general aspects of civil law (sale of goods law, product liability law, tenancy law, employment law)
