1. In cases not covered by Article 7(1), a Member State may, without prejudice to Articles 4(2), 5 and 6, exempt from the obligation imposed in Article 1(1) any parent undertaking governed by its national law which is also a subsidiary undertaking, the parent undertaking of which is governed by the law of a Member State, provided that all the conditions set out in Article 7(2) are fulfilled and that the shareholders in or members of the exempted undertaking who own a minimum proportion of the subscribed capital of that undertaking have not requested the preparation of consolidated accounts at least six months before the end of the financial year. The Member States may fix that proportion at not more than 10 % for public limited liability companies and for limited partnerships with share capital, and at not more than 20 % for undertakings of other types.
2. A Member State may not make it a condition for this exemption that the parent undertaking which prepared the consolidated acco