Applications for allocation or, where appropriate, increase of payment entitlements under the single payment scheme shall be submitted by a date to be fixed by the Member States but not later than the 15 May in the first year of implementation of the single payment scheme, of integration of coupled support, of application of Articles 46 to 48 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, or in the years of application of Articles 41, 57 or 68(1)(c) of the same Regulation. However, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden may fix a later date which shall not be later than 15 June.

Member States may decide that the application for allocation of payment entitlements shall be submitted at the same time as the application for payment under the single payment scheme.