reg 2D Meaning of producer
(1) A person is a “ producer ” for the purposes of these Regulations if one or more of the following applies— (a) the person is established in the United Kingdom and manufactures EEE under his own name or trademark, or has EEE designed or manufactured and markets it under his own name or trademark within the United Kingdom; (b) the person is established in the United Kingdom and resells within the United Kingdom, under his own name or trademark, EEE manufactured by other suppliers, a reseller not being regarded as the “producer” if the name or trademark of another person who is the producer appears on the EEE as provided for in sub-paragraph (a); (c) the person is established in the United Kingdom and places on the market EEE from a country other than the United Kingdom; (d) except where paragraph (2) applies, the person is a non-UK supplier supplying EEE directly to private households or to users other than private households in the United Kingdom. (2) This paragraph applies where a non-UK supplier— (a) supplies EEE to private households in the United Kingdom on an online marketplace; and (b) is not the operator of the online marketplace on which the sale or other supply was facilitated. (3) Where paragraph (2) applies the online marketplace operator is the producer (the “OMP producer”) in relation to the EEE supplied by the non-UK supplier. (4) In these Regulations, reference to a producer includes an OMP producer, except as provided for by regulations 24A and 74(3).