6.5 Withdrawal of correct application documents or parts 

Where applicants are informed about the new date of filing, they may, within one month of the communication under Rule 56a(3) or Rule 56a(6) as applicable (see A‑II, 6.3 and A-II, 6.4), withdraw the correct application documents or parts in order to maintain the initial date of filing. In this case, redating of the application and any filing of the correct documents or parts will be deemed not to have occurred. The erroneously filed documents or parts will be restored to the application as filed. The EPO will inform the applicants of this in accordance with Rule 56a(7).

If the correct application documents or parts do not satisfy the physical requirements of Rule 49(2) in conjunction with the decision of the President of the EPO dated 7 July 2025 (OJ EPO 2025, A49), the EPO will invite the applicant to correct this deficiency according to Rule 58 after the one-month period for withdrawing them has expired unless the applicant has withdrawn the documents (see A‑III, 3.2.2).