The Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
The operator who places unprocessed whole, ground, milled, cracked, chopped apricot kernels on the market for the final consumer shall provide upon request from the competent authority evidence of compliance of the marketed product with the maximum level.
The sampling for the control of compliance with the maximum level shall be performed in accordance with the rules set out in part D.2 of Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 401/2006(1).
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 July 2017.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker