25The applicant also points out that no provision of the Staff Regulations requires an official to submit a claim for the expatriation allowance, and that similarly there is no provision therein laying down a time-limit for claiming actual payment of that allowance. In the applicant's opinion, she is in this respect in a similar situation to that of Jeanne Airola, who entered the service of the Commission in 1965, was not granted the expatriation allowance and successfully claimed it only in 1972, that is after seven years' service (Case 21/74AiroL v Commission [1975] ECR 221). The applicant's situation may also be compared to that of Michele Canters who joined the Commission in 1975 and successfully applied for the expatriation allowance only in 1985, after ten years' service.