The European Citizens’ Initiative Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics – Commit to a Europe Without Animal Testing calls on the EU to strengthen its animal testing ban.
MEPs will debate animal testing in cosmetics with the initiators of a citizen’s initiative to secure better animal welfare and environmental protection.
The hearing will be developed around the initiative’s main topics:
1. Protect and strengthen the EU’s cosmetics animal testing ban
Initiate legislative change to achieve consumer, worker, and environmental protection for all cosmetics ingredients without testing on animals for any purpose at any time.
2. Transform the EU’s chemicals regulation
Ensure human health and the environment are protected by managing chemicals without the addition of new animal testing requirements.
3. Modernise science in the EU
Commit to a legislative proposal plotting a roadmap to phase out all animal testing in the EU before the end of the current legislative term.
Animal testing for finished cosmetic products has been prohibited in the EU since 2004 and for cosmetic ingredients since 2009. Companies must therefore test their chemicals for safety by using alternative methods and only test on animals as a last resort if deemed necessary to protect human health.
In 2021, Parliament adopted a resolution demanding an EU action plan to end the use of animals in research and testing.
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