
Article 1 
Derogations are granted to Greece, France, Italy, Malta and Austria, as laid down in the annex to this Decision.
Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Malta and the Austrian Republic.
Done at Brussels, 22 July 2005.
For the Commission
Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

Country 
Greece For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2004: the transmission delay mentioned in Section 6 of the Annex of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 1450/2004 shall be 20 months instead of 18 months
France For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2006: for all results except those related to section D of NACE Rev. 1.1 and to the size class 10 – 49 employees
Italy For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2006: the results are not to be broken down by economic activities in accordance to NACE Rev. 1.1 or by size class
Malta For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2004: no results are to be transmittedFor the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2006: the results are not to be broken down by economic activities in accordance to NACE Rev. 1.1 or by size class
Austria For the Community innovation statistics to be compiled for the reference year 2004: the reference year shall be 2005 instead of 2004