Article 10 Repeat applications

A repeat application shall not be submitted within 12 months after the notification provided for in Article 9(2) or in Article 3(6), or the withdrawal of the application.

By way of derogation from paragraph 1, a repeat application with respect to the same scheme may be made three months after the notifications referred to in paragraph 1 if an improved grading of less than ten percent of applicable specific criteria would be sufficient for the general conditions for recognition of equivalence set out in Article 4 to be met.

All the information referred to in Article 3(2) shall be provided in repeat applications, even if part of that information was contained in a previous applications.

In addition to the information referred to Article 3(2), a repeat application concerning a scheme that was subject to a previous, unsuccessful application shall contain detailed information concerning all measures taken with regard to the specific criteria that the Commission did not consider ‘fully aligned’ in its assessment of the most recent unsuccessful application.