
Article 1 

1. By way of derogation from Article 15(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009, for the year 2012, Member States may authorise farmers to submit an application for the allocation, or increase of the unit value, of payment entitlements in accordance with Article 41(3) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 before 31 January 2013 at the latest.
2. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009, for the year 2012, farmers who submitted the single application for aid under any of the area-related aid schemes by a date fixed by the Member States in accordance with Article 11(2) of that Regulation and who, pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article, submitted an application for allocation, or increase of the unit value, of payment entitlements, may submit a separate application for aid for the purpose of Article 41(3) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, before 31 January 2013 at the latest.
3. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009, for the year 2012, Member States may authorise farmers, who pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article submitted an application for allocation, or increase of the unit value, of payment entitlements and who have not submitted the single application referred to in the second paragraph of this Article, to submit a single application for aid under Article 41(3) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 before 31 January 2013 at the latest.
4. The application for allocation, or increase of the unit value, of payment entitlements submitted pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be considered as a separate application for aid or a single application for aid pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3.
5. Where paragraph 1 of this Article is applied, Member States may derogate from the provisions of Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 concerning payment entitlements if their allocation, or the increases of their unit values, are not yet definitively established at the latest date fixed in paragraph 2 and 3 of this Article.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1120/2009, for the year 2012, payment entitlements, whose unit value is subject to an increase pursuant to Article 1 of this Regulation, may be declared for payment of the respective increase of their unit value by the farmer who holds them at 31 January 2013.
Payment entitlements newly allocated to farmers and increases of payment entitlements whose unit value is subject to an increase, pursuant to Article 1 of this Regulation, shall be considered declared for the calendar year 2012.
Article 3 

1. No payment related to the allocation, or increase of the unit value, of payment entitlements under Article 41(3) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 may be made for the calendar year 2012 before finalising the verification of the eligibility conditions applicable to that support carried out by the Member State concerned, where recourse has been had to one or several of the derogations set out in Articles 1 and 2 of this Regulation.
2. By way of derogation from Article 29(3) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, payments under support schemes listed in Annex I thereto, other than the support referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, may be made for the calendar year 2012 irrespective of finalising the verification of the eligibility conditions applicable to the support referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.
3. By way of derogation from Article 35(1) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the parcels corresponding to the eligible hectares accompanying any payment entitlements newly allocated, or whose unit value has been increased, in accordance with Article 41(3) of that Regulation on the basis of one or several of the derogations set out in Articles 1 and 2 of this Regulation, shall be at the relevant farmers’ disposal on 31 January 2013.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 3(1) and (2) shall apply from 16 October 2012.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 21 December 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO