I've been reading extensively about this, on various websites, forums & of course the official documents from the EU (The UK government websites haven't got anything concise or particularly helpful about it) & it seems to me the important point that needs clarifying for private sellers & small businesses is around this;
"The new rules don't apply for goods already offered to the market prior to implementation of the new rules"
& how that might contradict;
"The new rules apply to new and second-hand products"
If we take Ebay sellers as an example, they might have listings of items they own that they are selling privately & there's no real clarity as to whether this means they have been offered to the market when they were first sold to the private seller, or if the seller listing them is, in effect, offering them again to the market as a 'new' product to the market.
If the seller is a business &, for example & for simplicity, has one product that they make in some way, whether from scratch or from parts purchased from elsewhere, is that product 'new to the market' each time they make one, or it regarded as having been a product offered to the market when the design was first launched by the seller.
It's also not clear if the new rules apply to private sellers (ie. not businesses) or when sending gifts.
If anyone has anything official from any reliable source that clarifies it could assist lots of folks trying to work these new rules out.
