 France introduced a ban on the import, manufacture and sale of microbeads in rinse-off cosmetics on 1 January 2018.India's microbead ban will enter force in 2020.In November 2016 Simon Coveney, the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, said that the Fine Gael-led government would press for an EU-wide ban on microbeads and rejected a Green Party bill banning them on the basis that it might conflict with the EU's freedom of movement of goods.