Article 7

1.  By derogation from Article 6, applications for the EU Ecolabel for products falling within the product group ‘Detergents for Dishwashers’ submitted before the date of adoption of this Decision shall be evaluated in accordance with the conditions laid down in Decision 2003/31/EC.

2.  Applications for the EU Ecolabel for products falling within the product group ‘Detergents for Dishwashers’ submitted from the date of adoption of this Decision but by 30 April 2011 at the latest may be based either on the criteria set out in Decision 2003/31/EC or on the criteria set out in this Decision.

Those applications shall be evaluated in accordance with the criteria on which they are based.

3.  Where the Ecolabel is awarded on the basis of an application evaluated according to the criteria set out in Decision 2003/31/EC, that Ecolabel may be used for 12 months from the date of adoption of this Decision.