Submission of applications in the Member States
Article 7
1. Each Member State shall be responsible for the organisation of the competition between its cities in accordance with the calendar. 2. The Member States concerned shall publish a call for submission of applications at least six years before the year of the title. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the Member States entitled to designate a city to hold the title in 2020 shall publish such a call as soon as possible after 4 May 2014. Each call for submission of applications shall contain the application form referred to in Article 4(1). The deadline for submitting applications by candidate cities under each call for submission of applications shall be scheduled at the earliest 10 months after its publication. 3. The Member States concerned shall notify the applications to the Commission.