In case you upload an XML document and you receive the error SFC_DOC_CRE_043, please make sure that the first line of your XML is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

Please find in this document below a compilation of questions raised by Member States with the answers provided.

If you have already uploaded the Annual Declaration XML and the Difference Explanation XML files and you delete or re-upload only the Annual Declaration XML file (or only the Difference Explanation XML file), then the data of the related Difference Explanation XML file (Annual Declaration XML file) will also be deleted in the system (even if the XML file is still shown on screen).