Uanset stk. 5 finder artikel 2-6 og artikel 7, stk. 1, første afsnit, ikke anvendelse på ansøgninger, for hvilke udkastet til vurderingsrapport var forelagt Kommissionen og autoriteten pr. 31. december 2009.
By way of derogation from paragraph 5, for applications for which the draft assessment report had been submitted to the Commission and the Authority by 31 December 2009 at the latest, Articles 2 to 6 and the first subparagraph of Article 7(1) shall not apply.