Concept: Bleaching preparations and other substances for laundry use; cleaning, polishing, scouring and abrasive preparations; soaps; perfumery, essential oils, cosmetics, hair lotions; dentifrices in the ncl vocabulary

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Concept URI	http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/eurostat/ncl/NCL03
Preferred label	Bleaching preparations and other substances for laundry use; cleaning, polishing, scouring and abrasive preparations; soaps; perfumery, essential oils, cosmetics, hair lotions; dentifrices
Definition	Cosmetic, personal hygiene (when not for medical purposes) and general cleaning or polishing preparations are classified in Class 3. This class also includes goods that are related to these types of preparations. Such goods are in Class 3 when used for one of these Class 3 purposes. When used for other purposes, they could be classified in other classes. An example of this is ammonia being in Class 3 when used as a detergent but in Class 1 when used for industrial purposes. Items such as this that can be classified in more than one class depending on their specific uses, should have those uses specified as part of the identification of goods in order to justify their classification in a particular class. Some products, however, are always in Class 3, such as, essential oils and soaps. Most of the items in this class are preparations. However, there are some hard goods included in this class, but they are used for one of the Class 3 purposes or impregnated with Class 3 preparations, e.g., abrasive paper, alum stones, cotton sticks, pumice stones, cloths impregnated with a cosmetic lotion or a detergent for cleaning. It should also be noted that, generally, Class 3 is not a class for apparatus. Cosmetic and cleaning apparatus, such as brushes, are most commonly classified in Class 21.
Notation	NCL03
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-09-18
Accepted Date	2013-09-18
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