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We are pleased to announce that the declaration period for Annual Accounts and Management Declaration(s) for the Paying Agency and the Coordinating Body (as relevant) EAGF/EAFRD, pursuant to Article 33(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2022/128, for Financial year 2025, is now opened in SFC2021 Production, under menu ‘EXECUTION > Annual Accounts and Management declaration(s) (EAGF, EAFRD)’: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/sfc2021/sfc-fo/execution/aca/list
Modifications introduced in Financial year 2025 compared to previous Financial Year 2024, include the following :
- The table EAFRD Financial Instruments has been slightly adapted (re-numbering of columns, footnote)
- The Difference Explanation code (if any) for Technical Assistance, will be automatically filled by the system (rounding error: B02)
- MS with a Coordination Body will be able to create a separate Annual Accounts and Management Declaration version to submit the Management Declaration of the Coordinating Body (before the standard or extended submission deadline, as applicable))
- MS will be able to submit separately their Annual Accounts and the Management Declaration of the Paying Agency.
- MS will be able to create/send a new version of their Annual Accounts and Management Declaration(s) to provide data for section(s) they haven’t yet provided, even if the previous version is not returned by EC (before the standard or extended submission deadline, as applicable). Sections already provided in previous version(s) will not be modifiable unless authorised by the EC.
The XSD (definition of the XML files) has not be changed.
More information about these changes are available in the MS Questions & Answers FY2025 document available on the Support Portal https://sfc.ec.europa.eu/en/2021/support-ms/aca?qt_support_pages=2
The Quick Guide has also been adapted accordingly https://sfc.ec.europa.eu/en/2021/quickguides/aca
Please note that the Member States (MS) will only be able to upload their EAFRD Annual Declaration once their 2025 Q3 EAFRD declarations will be accepted by the Commission (submission deadline is 10th November 2025). In the meantime, the MS can already start to upload the other CSV/XML files and start to fill their Management Declaration(s)
The encoding period of the Annual Accounts and Management Declaration(s) has also been activated in the Acceptance environment: (Testing by MS) https://webgate.acceptance.ec.europa.eu/sfc2021/sfc-fo/execution/aca/list
Please note that due to technical constraints, the data on the monthly/quarterly declarations of expenditure in Acceptance environment is taken into account for the automatic calculation of differences between the annual declaration and the interim declarations as follows:
- For the monthly declarations (EAGF) – the declarations that are with status “Signed/Sent”, usually up to the declaration for January 2025;
- For the quarterly declarations (EAFRD) – the declarations that are with status “Accepted by EC”, only the declaration Q4 2024.
This could impact some of the validation rules.
Please be aware that the Acceptance environment is only for testing and no data entered there will be transferred to the production environment.
Member States are invited to submit their questions to the email address AGRI-FINANCIAL-AUDIT@ec.europa.eu by the 10 November with the subject “Questions for EGM 17 Nov 2025”.
Any questions received by that date will be answered during the Q&A session with SFC specialists that will take place on the second day of the next Expert Group Meeting, on the 18 November 2025.
For any technical issues regarding SFC2021, please contact the SFC2021 Support Team: EC-SFC2021-INFO@ec.europa.eu
Please consult the new FAQ here and the EAFRD DoE technical guidelines here. Click 'View' for more information.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click on 'View' for more information.
A new bugfix release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
The Commission services will be closed on 25/05/2026. The SFC application will remain available and will be monitored to ensure that any unforeseen downtime is kept to a minimum. Click View for more information.
The Commission services will be closed on 14/05 & 15/05. The SFC application will remain available and will be monitored to ensure that any unforeseen downtime is kept to a minimum. Click View for more information.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete.
We are pleased to announce that the Certification Body structured report related to closure of the EAFRD RDP 2014 – 2022 is now available via the Execution menu in SFC2021 PRODUCTION and SFC2021 ACCEPTANCE. Click 'View' for more information.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new bugfix release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click ‘View’ to consult the items included in this release.
We are pleased to inform you that the new report Advisory Recommendations is available in Production environment under the “Audit\EC Audit Report” Menu. Click 'View' for more information.
We are pleased to announce that the Social Climate Plan module for the Social Climate Fund is now available for encoding via the Strategic Planning menu in SFC2021 PRODUCTION. You can find a user guide in the Support Materials section of this portal. Click 'View' for more information.
A new module to transmit the data for the Interreg common sample has been released in SFC2021. A user guide is available on this portal under Support Materials > Audit > Interreg Common Sample. Click 'View' for more information.
We are pleased to announce that the Certification Body and Audit Opinion structured report is now available via the Execution menu in SFC2021 PRODUCTION.
We are pleased to announce that the Certification Body and Audit Opinion structured report is now available via the Execution menu in SFC2021 ACCEPTANCE. The Certification Bodies are invited to test the report in the system and to provide their feedback.
We are pleased to announce that the Survey module to input aggregated structured survey results on material deprivation and reporting of it to the EC is now available via the Evaluation module of SFC2021. Click on 'View' for more information.
A new menu “CSP Notifications” has been created under the section “Programming” of SFC2021 related to the CAP Strategic Plans. Click here for more information.
The Commission expects one submission by country (2 for Belgium), to be submitted by 15th of March 2024. Click here for more information.
The module will be available in the Production environment in the next few days. Click here for more information.
The new module ‘Data on LAGs for LEADER – LAG identification’ is now available in SFC2021 Production environment under the menu ‘MONITORING> Data on Monitoring and Evaluation> Data on LAGs for LEADER (EAFRD)’. Click 'View' for more information.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click on 'View' for more information.
Please consult the new FAQ here and the EAFRD DoE technical guidelines here. Click 'View' for more information.
A new release will be deployed today. SFC2021 will remain available, however you may need to refresh your browser once the deployment is complete. Click on 'View' for more information.
The Commission services will be closed on 25/05/2026. The SFC application will remain available and will be monitored to ensure that any unforeseen downtime is kept to a minimum. Click View for more information.
The Commission services will be closed on 14/05 & 15/05. The SFC application will remain available and will be monitored to ensure that any unforeseen downtime is kept to a minimum. Click View for more information.
We are pleased to announce that the Certification Body structured report related to closure of the EAFRD RDP 2014 – 2022 is now available via the Execution menu in SFC2021 PRODUCTION and SFC2021 ACCEPTANCE. Click 'View' for more information.
The Commission services will be closed on 01.05.2026. The SFC application will remain available and will be monitored to ensure that any unforeseen downtime is kept to a minimum. Click View for more information.
SFC2021 production environment will be unavailable for urgent maintenance on Saturday 18.04.2026 all day! We apologize for any inconvenience. Click 'View' for more information.
We have published a new FAQ providing clear guidance on the submission of “Recoveries from the previous programming period”. Click 'View' for more information.
The Commission services will be closed from 02.04.26 to 06.04.26 inclusive. Limited support will be available on the 2nd & 3rd of April. No support will be available on 6th April! Click View for more information.