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New regulations to create level playing field

By Mathieu Taschereau | 13 June 2013

“For the first time the world’s largest personal care market will be served by a single, harmonised piece of legislation,” said Fabio Franchina, president of Cosmetics Europe, at his organisation’s General Assembly in Brussels, on 13 June. The new regulations, agreed upon in 2009, will come...

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