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AccordingCosmetics manufacturersIt is understood that recently, local cosmetics associations have cooperated with the government and joint enterprises to actively carry out the 2022 Cosmetics Safety Science Promotion Week, and held a series of regulatory forums and industry training courses. As a "link" between the government and enterprises, the Cosmetics Association, which has been born for more than 40 years, is ushering in a new mission and opportunity.

According to relevant statistics, from 1980 to 2010, only 7 well-known cosmetics associations have been established, and in the two years since 2020, 5 cosmetics industry associations have been established. It can be seen that the development of the domestic beauty association has entered an accelerated stage. Let's follow the cosmetics manufacturers to learn about the development and changes of the cosmetics association.

1. looking at the association more than 40 years of development history, the new regulations under the association presents three major changes.

1, the change of the main body of supervision: from the independent establishment to the drug administration to take the lead.

In 2010, the cosmetics enterprises in Baiyun cosmetics circulation business circle, the largest cosmetics market cluster base in China, initiated the establishment of Guangzhou Baiyun cosmetics industry association, which became a typical example of enterprises holding groups and establishing associations independently. Nowadays, this model has quietly changed, and regulatory authorities have begun to participate more and more in the formation of associations. For example, the Guangxi Cosmetics Association, which was just established on May 25 this year, was promoted by the Autonomous Region Drug Administration; there are many associations. The competent unit is the government supervision department, such as the Tianjin Daily Chemicals Association, and the management department is the Tianjin Drug Administration.

This evolution is not unrelated to the new regulations (I. e., the Cosmetics Supervision and Administration Regulations). Article 7 states that "the cosmetics industry association shall strengthen industry self-discipline, supervise and guide cosmetics producers and operators to engage in production and business activities in accordance with the law, and promote the construction of industry integrity." Since the promulgation of the new regulations, the role and significance of the Cosmetics Association have risen to a new height. The Food and Drug Administration has begun to realize the importance of the association, so it has actively promoted the establishment of the association. Therefore, many new associations have emerged across the country.

2. Scope changes: from national to regional level.

At present, three well-known national associations in China, China Fragrant Association, China Daily chemical Association and China Beauty and hairdressing Association, were established in the 1980 s and 1990 s. Most of the associations established in recent years are mainly regional associations, such as Huzhou, Hubei, Zhengzhou, Heilongjiang, Guangxi and other places. After the new regulations were issued, provincial and municipal cosmetics associations were established.

Taking product registration and filing as an example, the advantage of this change is that although the registration and approval power of special cosmetics is in the hands of the State Food and Drug Administration, the filing and review power of ordinary cosmetics has been delegated to the Provincial Food and Drug Administration. For the difficulties encountered by enterprises in filing, provincial associations have played an important role in the popularization of new regulations, feedback demands, and uploading and issuing.

3, core function changes: from the formulation of the group standard to the new regulations.

According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 20 supporting laws and regulations of the new regulations, which is not a small pressure for enterprises to understand or implement. Based on this, a number of association leaders revealed that a series of work of the association in recent years has mainly focused on the new regulations.

Because the new regulations only put forward programmatic documents, and how to land, but also need to be implemented by the association. For example, in the past two years, the Shanghai daily chemical association has focused on the publicity and implementation of new regulations, organized a series of regulatory forums and professional training. In June this year, the association also held the "forum on high quality development of children's cosmetics".

2. relief, cosmetics market under the "mother's family".

In recent years, China's cosmetics market has grown rapidly and has become the second largest country in cosmetics consumption in the world.Cosmetics manufacturersAccording to Euromonitor data, China's cosmetics market is expected to exceed 800 billion yuan in 2024. Behind the rapid development, it is inseparable from the help and support of the industry "booster" of various cosmetics associations.

We must know that the Cosmetics Association, as a social organization between the government and enterprises, can effectively solve the "double failure" dilemma of market regulation and government intervention in the operation of the market economy. Industry associations can do things that are inconvenient for the government. In comparison, associations are more flexible and are not subject to institutional constraints. For example, in the first half of the epidemic test, the Shanghai daily chemical association also played a major role, in April 9th led the "Shanghai key cosmetics enterprises relief work online exchange meeting", trapped by the epidemic, brand outage, factory shutdown, goods stranded, Shanghai beauty industry collective Du Jie, together to discuss solutions.

In short, the establishment of the Cosmetics Association will help alleviate the pressure of the industry in the current economic environment. For beauty companies, there are not only a bridge to communicate with the government, but also a'mother family' who can help beauty companies defend their rights '.

3. the four major constraints, the Cosmetics Association opened the knockout stage.

As the role of the Cosmetics Association has become increasingly prominent, then the government will continue to strengthen the connection with the association, and at the same time delegate certain powers to allow the association to play a greater role. This is the general trend. However, although the sense of existence of industry associations is increasing, there are still many constraints in their development.

First: there is no financial guarantee, the operation of the organization is blocked. Because the Cosmetics Association is a non-profit social organization, the source of funding is relatively single, the government funding is insufficient, and there is no relevant incentive policy. The membership fee alone cannot carry out its work better and cannot play a greater role.

Second: the function is limited, the right to speak is not enough. As a bridge and link, the association talks with the government and speaks for the enterprise, but sometimes when calling for and promoting a certain project, it does not get attention and cannot provide necessary help to the enterprise in time.

Third: the policy does not match, the lack of professionals. The change of term of the association is strictly in accordance with the system and procedures, but the staff is not established, and due to the lack of funds, it is impossible to give high salaries, resulting in the high mobility of the association's staff, unable to retain professional talents, and too many part-time staff is not conducive to the long-term development of the association.

Fourth: the survival and development of local industry associations is closely related to the prosperity of the cosmetics industry in the region. The regional distribution of the development of China's cosmetics industry is uneven, resulting in the uneven development of cosmetics-related industry associations.

In addition, local cosmetics associations are competing to emerge, and face projects and "zombie associations" are not ruled out ". Because of this, a high-quality industry association has "three major impossibility", that is, it cannot rely too much on policy dividends, and the administrative and bureaucratic colors are too strong; it cannot lose the original intention of "serving the government, serving members, and serving the society", otherwise it will hit Enterprises are motivated; they cannot have a beginning and an end, and they are vigorous when they are established, but they have nothing to do, and become a "zombie association".

To sum up, cosmetics manufacturers said that the cosmetics industry is now rapidly iterating and reshuffling, which has also brought certain pressure and challenges to many industry associations. If they cannot follow the industry's associations that resonate at the same frequency, they will easily be eliminated.