congress PERFUMES-COSMETICS Regulatory Risks Congress, November 23 and 24, 2011 in Chartres

November 15, 2011 - The ninth edition of the PERFUMES and COSMETICS Congress of Chartres will be held on November 23 and 24, 2011 Chartrexpo rooms.

Organised by Cosmetic Valley and the City of Chartres, this congress will concentrate on regulatory risks and aims to bring us up to date with the various regulations that affect the perfumery- cosmetics sector.

Some 450 delegates, including the greatest specialists on regulatory questions, are expected for this unmissable event which will facilitate constructive discussions between industrials and supervisory authorities (AFSSAPS, FEBEA, COLIPA, AFNOR). Among the big names attending: LVMH Recherche, Chanel, L'Oréal, Aptar, Firmenich, Yves Rocher, L'Occitane and many more

The implementation of the European Regulation applicable from July 2013 will be at the heart of the debate: primary materials, safety, efficiency measures, cosmetovigilance, alternative methods, interaction between this and various other regulations, obligations of suppliers and sub-contractors, etc.
Other current affairs topics will include the state of scientific knowledge on endocrine disruptors and regulations in China.

PROGRAMME
Wednesday November 23, 2011
Day hosted by: Eric PERRIER, President, LVMH RECHERCHE and Etienne SOUDANT, President, SOCIETE FRANCAISE DE COSMETOLOGIE
9 am: Welcome and opening: Marc Antoine JAMET, President, COSMETIC VALLEY
9.30 am: Regarding regulatory requirements: how to choose primary materials? Pascal COURTELLEMONT, Product Safety Department Manager, LVMH RECHERCHE
10 am: What regulations for packagings? Patrick PREVOST, Quality, Sustainability, Regulatory Affairs Vice-President, APTAR
11.30: Safety assessment of finished products: what steps to take? Hélène CHAUMONT, Product Safety Regulatory Manager, L'OCCITANE
12 pm: Safety steps in the perfumery industry Daniel GRELL, Vice President, Corporate Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs, FIRMENICH Chairman, IFRA Europe REACH Task Force
2.30 pm: Safety, efficiency? Standards and normative work impacting the cosmetics sector Valérie BERNAT, Normalisation Project Manager, Philippe MASSON, President of the normalisation commission for cosmetics products, AFNOR
3 pm: Measuring efficiency, Claims and Allegations Anne DUX, Regulatory and Scientific Affaires Regulatory Manager, European Relations, FEBEA
4.30 pm: Towards a European Cosmetovigilance system? Corinne COMBE, Innocuousness Cluster Manager, YVES ROCHER
5 pm: Implementing GMPs: Common nonconformities Vanessa PICOT, Cosmetics Products Inspector, AFSSAPS (possible) François BRUNEAUX, Market Inspection and Control Department Chief

Thursday November 24, 2011
Day hosted by Philippe MASSON, CEO, EVIC INTERNATIONAL and Claude BOUILLON, Consultant
9 am: REACH: implementation, management of SIEF and recordings, status report Guilhem DE SEZE, Head of Unit, Substance Identification and Data Sharing Unit, ECHA
9.40 am: REACH: Update on the demonstration of conformity of downstream users Xavier RADISSON, Sourcing & Procedures Department Manager, L'OREAL
10.10 am: Interaction between the REACH & CLP Cosmetics Regulations Sébastien CAVELIER, Training Consultant, INTERTEK
11.30am: Alternative methods: are we ready for the 2013 deadline? Rob TAALMAN, Research Project Management Manager, COLIPA
12 pm: Endocrine disruptors: the state of scientific knowledge Robert BAROUKI, Biochemistry Professor, Toxicology Unit Manager INSERM
2.30 pm: Regulatory news from China: registration of new ingredients and products Tiphaine DAUBERT-MACIA, Cosmetics Products Regulatory Affairs Manager, CHANEL PARFUMS BEAUTE
3 pm: Presentation of the centralised notification system Aurélien PEREZ, Administrator, DG SANCO, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
4.30 pm: Distributors, sub-contractors: specifications and obligations under the Regulation Emmanuelle GOURBIN, Social and Legal Affairs Manager, FEBEA Barbara HERY, Regulatory Affairs Service Manager, LVMH RECHERCHE
5 pm: Duties & Obligations of operators and authorities in the case of non-conformity Jean-Philippe MONTFORT, lawyer, MAYER BROWN INTERNATIONAL LLP