EU Regulation 1307/2013 provides for the establishment of the Basic Payment Scheme National Reserve which must be used, as a matter of priority, to allocate Basic Payment Scheme entitlements to young farmers and new entrants to farming.
The EU Regulations governing the scheme also provide that a farmer may benefit from the National Reserve only once during the lifetime of the scheme, which runs from 2015-2019. Individual Member States do not have discretion in the application of this provision.
Therefore, a successful application under the 2015 National Reserve is not eligible to benefit from the National Reserve during the subsequent years of the scheme.