CPNP is the Cosmetic Products Notification Portal, the European Commission's online system in which the responsible person must register every cosmetic product, including nail polish, before it is placed on the EU market.
Also known as: Cosmetic Products Notification Portal, CPNP notification, EU cosmetic notification, responsible person
The Cosmetic Products Notification Portal (CPNP) is the door every cosmetic passes through before it can be sold in the European Union. Before a lacquer, gloss or liner goes on sale, its responsible person, the EU-based company or individual legally accountable for it, submits the product through the portal. The duty comes from Article 13 of Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 (European Commission).
The notification records who is responsible, what the product is, its formulation and its label. That information goes to two groups: the competent authorities in each member state, who use it for market surveillance, and the poison centres, who use it to treat a child who has swallowed a bottle of polish or a tube of gloss. One notification covers the whole EU; no further national notification is needed (European Commission).
Products that contain nanomaterials, such as carbon black (nano) in a black eyeliner, need a separate notification under Article 16 of the same Regulation, six months before they are placed on the market. The Commission can request a safety assessment if it has concerns about a nanomaterial.
The CPNP is not a public database and it does not test products. Safety is established beforehand in the product information file, which contains the cosmetic product safety report. Notification is one of the checks that separates a lawful EU product from a parallel import, and it is one reason the same gel polish can be legal in one market and prohibited in another, as the 2025 TPO ban showed.