When an object is returned by the Commission in SFC2021 it will display as 'Current node' -> 'European Commission'. This is because the version that has been returned is no longer editable by the Member state and they must create a new version of the object in order to edit the information.
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To search for information in SFC2021 you have two options:
General search by CCI:
Click on the search icon in the top-right of the SFC2021 screen:
Enter the CCI number and the system will find all objects and documents linked to the CCI:
Search for a specific object version:
Go to the menu for the object you wish to search for. Hover over the column headers and click on the icon with three lines on any of the columns:
Then click on the filter icon and enter the filter/search criteria:
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The SFC2021 Support Team is not in charge of subscribing/unsubscribing any of its Users for the reception of automatic notifications generated by the system.
There are 2 options to be automatically notified:
By Object:
Provided that the 'object' is not a standalone document, the concerned user can add his/her email address in the General > Officials in charge section of the object (e.g. Operational/National Programmes, Implementation Reports etc ). :
To remove/edit a User, go to the appropriate section, select the Official in Charge from the list and Edit or Delete the record as required.
By combined criteria:
Each User can subscribe to the Utilities > Event Registration in order to receive automatic notifications generated by SFC2021 and select different event types, groups and filter them by EU Fund and/or CCI (depending on the assigned roles of the user's account):
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SFC2021 enforces the "four-eyes" principle, which means that the user who last validated the Object cannot submit it. Two different users are required; one to validate and another to send.
According to Article 69(9) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2021/1060 regarding the electronic data exchange system between the Member States and the Commission, one of the responsibilities of the Member State is “Ensuring the verification of information submitted by a person other than the person who entered the data for that transmission”
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SFC2021 accepts a limited HTML formatting either when inputting the text or when a copy and paste is done. In order to count the characters, SFC2021 removes all HTML formatting tags, whitespaces, special characters that are non visible (like carriage return, tabulation/indentation, new line….) and only counts the remaining characters.
The rich text fields have no limitation concerning spaces. What needs to be respected is the number of characters without spaces.
Tip: Tools such as Word can be used to approximate as much as possible the SFC2021 character counting, only if the formatting is removed (I.e. save as plain text, format Unicode).
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Documents can either be Standalone documents or Referring documents. A Standalone document doesn't refer to anything. A Referring document refers to a CCI number or to an object existing in SFC2021.
For referential documents, when a CCI link is available it means that the document can be linked to a CCI number related to the type of document. CCI numbers are allocated before the related object is encoded in SFC2021. When a Programme (PRG) link is available it means that the document can be linked to a Programme already encoded in SFC2021.
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