Patient Guard provides UK Responsible Person (UKRP) services for cosmetic products, supporting compliance with UK cosmetic regulations. We act as your UK Responsible Person, ensuring your products can be legally placed on the UK market.
Cosmetic manufacturers based outside the United Kingdom must appoint a UK Responsible Person (UKRP) to legally place their products on the Great Britain market under UK cosmetic regulations derived from Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009.
A UK Responsible Person acts as your legal presence within the UK, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, including SCPN registration, Product Information File (PIF) maintenance, and post-market surveillance obligations.
Patient Guard acts as your cosmetic regulatory consultancy, supporting manufacturers with UK cosmetic compliance, SCPN registration, and market access.
Without a UK-based Responsible Person, manufacturers cannot register their products on the Submit Cosmetic Product Notifications (SCPN) portal or legally sell cosmetics in Great Britain.
We provide expert UK Responsible Person services for cosmetic manufacturers worldwide, supporting SCPN registration, PIF review, Cosmetic Product Safety Report (CPSR) verification, and ongoing regulatory compliance.
Speak to our regulatory experts today to ensure your cosmetic products meet UK regulatory requirements and are ready for market access.
Under UK cosmetic regulations:
We assess your product and regulatory requirements
We review PIF, CPSR and supporting documentation
Formal appointment via mandate agreement
Submission and verification of product data
Support with regulatory updates and vigilance
We support a wide range of cosmetic products, including:
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Ensure your smooth entry into the UK cosmetics market with a UKRP you can trust
We receive your PIF including labelling and CPSR.
We review the documents, typically half a day per PIF
We then register the products on the SCPN database, 1 hour per PIF
Time lines can be as little as 1 business day for single product review and registration, from the day we receive the files from you. This is dependent on all of the information being correct and no corrections needed to the PIF, labelling or CPSR.
A UK Responsible Person ensures compliance with UK cosmetic regulations, registers products on the SCPN system, maintains product information files, and acts as the manufacturer’s legal representative within Great Britain.
Yes, all manufacturers based outside the UK (Great Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales) are legally required to appoint a single UK Responsible Person (UKRP) to place Cosmetic Products on the UK market. The UKRP must be established in the UK and assumes legal accountability for regulatory compliance, including registration with OPSS.
Yes, a Cosmetic Product manufacturer can change their UK Responsible Person (UKRP) at any time. The process involves terminating the existing agreement, appointing a new UKRP via a new letter of designation, updating product information file information, labelling, and registering the change on the SCPN system. Only one UKRP can be appointed at a time.
Patient Guard charges an annual fee, this covers as many Cosmetic Products as the manufacturer wishes to place on the UK market.
If all of the documentation that is required is available and correct, the process should take as little as 2 business days, for a single product that needs to be registered. However, this is dependent on how many cosmetic products need to be registered and how much documentation needs to be assessed.
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