That's helpful, jez465. I did skim through the Blue Guide last night but didn't spot that ref to 'already manufactured'. That seems to be significant and may put a different perspective on the question I posted yesterday.
As I interpret your quoted extract, if you've got existing stock of an item that you've already offered for sale to the EU market, then (over-zealous postal authorities permitting) you can go on selling that product in the usual way.
Perhaps it might be helpful to include text on the website and on paperwork accompanying the product along the lines of: "This product was manufactured in 2023 and I have offered it for sale since 10 January 2024". That would make it clear that it's an existing, pre-13 Dec 2024 offering for sale/placing on the market.
But it is indeed as clear as mud. For those of us who cannot, for economic reasons, switch off NI and EU, it's a massive addional headache and expense. The time it's taking up is ridiculous. In 'man'-hours alone, it's already cost the small publisher for whom I work several thousand pounds, completely disrupted work in the crucial end-of-year period and will have knock-on effects going on for months. And that's before we've even paid for an authorised representative. In the absence of any EU certification of qualified ARs - a rather glaring omission, I should have thought - we're struggling to assess who's legit and who's simply some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick chancer.
Tucked away in BBC's Business news section (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydrp0kjn5o) today, I noted the following droll comment:
"The government said it has been supporting small and medium businesses across the UK to get ready for GPSR."
Yeah, right!
