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).

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

https://sfc.ec.europa.eu/system/files/documents/documents/qa-aa-and-md-reporting-fy2023.pdf

If some MS with several Paying Agencies want to submit a Declaration of Expenditure EAFRD inside which some Paying Agencies have nothing to declare/correct, then they have the choice between: