1.Member States may authorise traders classified in the lowest risk category and providing special guarantees on conformity to marketing standards to use the specimen in Annex II in the labelling of each package at the stage of dispatch and/or to sign the conformity certificate as referred to in Article 14.
2.The authorisation shall be granted for a period of at least one year.
3.Traders benefiting from this possibility shall:
(a)have inspection staff who have received training approved by the Member States;
(b)have suitable equipment for preparing and packing produce;
(c)commit themselves to carry out a conformity check on the goods they dispatch and have a register recording all checks carried out.
4.Where an authorised trader no longer complies with the requirements for authorisation the Member State shall withdraw the authorisation.
5.Notwithstanding paragraph 1, authorised traders may continue to use specimens which conformed to Regulation (EC) No 1580/2007 on [F121 June 2011] until stocks are exhausted.
Authorisations granted to traders before [F122 June 2011] shall continue to apply for the period for which they were granted.