Simple
€345List €495.
- Washes off, or has no water at all — soap, shampoo, balm, oil
- Your suppliers already sent complete paperwork
- Not for children, the eye area or intimate use
Per product, paid once
What it costs
Prices are in euros and exclude VAT. VAT is added on the invoice once we have confirmed how it is treated in your country. Most brands pay for two things: getting a product registered once, then keeping it registered each year.
Registration covers the safety report, product information file and CPNP notification preparation. Ongoing file storage and regulatory monitoring are separate annual services. The designated EU Responsible Person submits the notification (Art. 13(1)).
We do not take products for the eye area or lashes, children under three, peels, or products presented as lightening or whitening the skin. We confirm the product scope before opening a file.
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Standard
Most products€665List €950.
- Stays on the skin or hair — cream, lotion, serum, conditioner
- May be scented, with essential oils or a bought-in fragrance
- Restricted ingredients, within a published limit
Per product, paid once
Complex
€1,015List €1,450.
- For the mouth or another mucous membrane
- Carries an SPF, or contains nanomaterials
- An in-house extract, or a natural material of unknown make-up
Per product, paid once
Scope and fees agreed in writing before work starts. Right now these are founding prices, 30% below our list price, because the practice is new. They hold until fifteen safety reports have been signed for paying clients. They apply to registration only.
Two examples for one Simple product
With SARVA as your EU Responsible Person: €345 registration plus €360 for one product for a year across the EU: €705 in year one, then €360 a year for RP. File storage and regulatory monitoring are included in the RP service. This excludes VAT, laboratory work, variants and changes. Appointment requires a separately accepted written mandate.
With your own Responsible Person:
For one Simple product with no variants, registration is €345. Add €240 for a year of file storage and regulatory monitoring: €585 in year one, then €240 a year for that service. This excludes VAT, laboratory work, changes and any fee your designated Responsible Person charges. The written quote confirms which lines apply.
Work out your total
Set it to your range. The slip is what a fixed quote for it would look like.
Everything else
List prices, per item — the founding reduction above does not apply here, and there is nothing to pay beyond what is on this page. Open a tile for what it covers.
Variations
Colour or pack size€95
Same recipe, same scent. Assessed alongside the original.
Scent change€180
A new fragrance or essential oil. We recalculate the allergens, the IFRA limits and the total exposure.
Changes
Label or packaging€280
The recipe and the exposure stay exactly as they are.
Recipe or supplier€480
We re-screen it, assess what actually changed, and revise the file.
Re-sign after a rule change€220
The EU changes a rule that touches your product. Being told it happened is inside the yearly fee; this line is the work that follows.
Keeping the file
You are the Responsible Person€240/yr
For brands that already have their own EU Responsible Person. We hold the file and watch the registers. Per product, per year.
Archive — product no longer sold€120/yr
You stop selling it, but the file still has to be kept for ten years after the last batch (Art. 11(1)). Per product, per year.
Moving the file to the UK€420
Your file carried across and the notification pack prepared. A UK Responsible Person is not included. Other countries are quoted once we file there.
Help with paperwork
Claims review€320
Claims review → One web page, one label, or one set of ads — taken to the point where a person has approved every verdict. The ingredient list on the pack is part of registration, not this.
We chase your suppliers€190
We send the document requests from our side and follow up by email and phone until every supplier has sent what we need, or told us it does not exist. Per product, however many suppliers.
Review of a safety report you already have€190
You send us a safety report from another assessor. We send back a written list of what is wrong with it, why it matters, and what would fix it — not a new report, and not our signature: the report stays the other assessor's. Credited in full against a registration ordered within 60 days.
Laboratory testingat cost
Passed on at exactly what the laboratory charges us. We add nothing to it.
The same prices as plain text, for tools that read them: pricing.md.
Questions people ask
Which band is my product in?
The band follows how hard the product is to assess safely, not what it costs to make or how many you sell.
- Simple: washes off, or contains no water at all (a soap, a shampoo, a body wash, a balm, an oil), used one way only, and your suppliers have already sent complete paperwork. Nothing for children, the eye area or intimate use; no sun protection claim, no nanomaterials, nothing breathed in, no extract you make yourself.
- Standard: stays on the skin or hair (a cream, a lotion, a serum, a conditioner). May be scented with essential oils or a bought-in fragrance, and may contain restricted ingredients as long as the limit is published and we can work to it.
- Complex: any one of these: for the mouth or another mucous membrane; carries an SPF; contains nanomaterials; is breathed in; contains an extract you make in-house; or contains a natural material whose exact make-up cannot be pinned down. Two or more of these, and we quote you separately.
Is it cheaper to register several products at once?
Yes. The second and later products in the same order cost less. Both columns already include the founding reduction.
| Band | On its own | As an extra product in the same order |
|---|---|---|
| Simple | €345 | €295 |
| Standard | €665 | €565 |
| Complex | €1,015 | €863 |
The right-hand column is 15% off the list price for ordering together, then the founding 30% off what is left.
Is the price per product or per range — how many colour and fragrance variations does one report cover?
Per product. One product is one recipe, used one way. Additional EU countries do not add another RP fee. We confirm any market-specific label work in the written quote.
- A variation is the same recipe in a different colour, scent or jar size. We assess it next to the original at the variation price, not as a second registration.
- A new product, at full price: a changed preservative or emulsifier, a rinse-off turned into a leave-on, or a children's version of an adult product. Those change the safety maths.
We tell you which of your items count as variations and which as separate products before you agree to anything.
What can move a product into a higher band?
- How many raw materials, and how many of those are blends with their own recipes inside them.
- Restricted ingredients whose limit depends on what the product is used for.
- Missing paperwork from suppliers, the biggest cost driver of all: a manufacturer who will not send a specification.
- Claims that have to be proven rather than simply removed.
- How many countries and variations you are selling.
How long will it take?
Once the last document is in and the formula is declared, the signed safety report usually follows within 3 working days. Before that point, the waiting is almost always for a document from your manufacturer, not for the assessment. Your own time in the client portal is about an hour if your manufacturer already has the papers. The quote sets out what is already in hand, what is still missing, and who has it.
Will I get a reply?
Yes. This practice has one signatory, and your enquiry reaches him rather than a queue.
Does this hold up to an inspection, or have I bought a PDF?
You get a file with an index, hashes, and a written list of anything still missing, made readily accessible to the competent authority at the address on the label (Art. 11(3)). What makes it stand up is that nothing in it was assumed.
I already have a safety report from someone else. Do I need a new one?
We can review the one you have first: €190, credited in full against a registration if you order one within 60 days. You get back a written list of what is wrong with it, why it matters, and what would fix it. It stays the other assessor's report; we are not signing it.
If you go on to have us register the product, we assess it ourselves and sign our own report. Your existing report is read as background, not copied from — we ask you for the studies and certificates it cites, not its summary of them.
What am I paying for if the report cannot be signed?
Registration is paid in two halves: file preparation first, assessment and signature second. A refusal to sign does not make the file-preparation work free. Your written quote and service terms set out the payment and refund conditions before you agree.
Reg. (EC) 1223/2009
Art. 4(1)Art. 4(5)Art. 10Art. 10(1)Art. 11Art. 11(1)Art. 11(3)Art. 13(1)Art. 14Annex IAnnex III
Tell us the product, the variants and the markets — a fixed quote in writing.