Bralo is asking that his additional appearance before the court be scheduled within 30 days, defence counsel Virginia Lindsey said.
Judge Amin el Mahdi granted the defence motion and asked the tribunal's Registry to set a date for the accused's first appearance to enter a plea.
Miroslav Bralo aka Cicko, 37, turned himself in to NATO-led peacekeeping troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina on November 10 this year, and was transferred to the tribunal's detention unit in the Hague district of Scheveningen on November 12.
The indictment against him was unsealed on October 12, almost nine years since its confirmation on November 10, 1995.
Bralo is charged with 21 counts of violations of the laws and customs and war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions for persecuting Muslims in the Lasva river valley of central Bosnia in 1993. He was a member of a Bosnian Croat special unit known as the Jokers.
He is individually accused of killing three Muslim prisoners and of repeatedly raping a Muslim woman, identified as Witness A, at the Jokers' headquarters in Nadioci near Vitez in May 1993.