Comment by kalleboo

Existing units could be sold after the deadline. Basically, what was left on store shelves. Existing models were not grandfathered in.

Apple stopped selling the iPhone 14/SE the day before the rule went into effect for this reason.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/27/apple-stops-selling-iph...

> The regulation comes into force on December 28, and it applies to any individual iPhone unit placed for sale after that date, even if they are older models

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:...

> As for ‘making available’, the concept of placing on the market refers to each individual product, not to a type of product, and whether it was manufactured as an individual unit or in series. Consequently, placing on the Union market can only happen once for each individual product across the EU and does not take place in each Member State. Even though a product model or type has been supplied before new Union harmonisation legislation laying down new mandatory requirements entered into force, individual units of the same model or type, which are placed on the market after the new requirements have become applicable, must comply with these new requirements.