Payment application (EMFF)

The content of a programme can be seen by an EC user even before it is submitted to the Commission. This is to help the Member States during the amendments process.

Documents can only be consulted when they are sent. This is because documents do not have a full workflow as is the case for the structured data and their content is unknown and could contain sensible data which the Member State doesn't want the Commission to know before it is officially submitted.

Table 18a covers the entire programming period. Column F should not exceed the maximum co-financing rate and should follow the rules that were in effect before the COVID crisis measures. 100% co-financing is requested only for expenditures declared in accounting year 2020-2021.

The temporary increase in co-financing for expenditures declared during the accounting year 2020-2021 is indicated by checking the box "100% co-financing" in the table.

To help National Authorities assessing total eligible expenditure and national funding for an Operational Programme in case of an increase in co-financing rates, a new report called 'Cofinancing Rate' has been developed indicating the new minimum national funding for reaching the maximum EU funding adopted in the decision on the OP.

For additional information on how to generate such report using SFC2014, follow this link to the quick guide: https://ec.europa.eu/node/quick_guide/2762

The Commission doesn't send any Calculation Report in the specific cases that the amount to pay is zero (0€). The reason of not providing a calculation report for the “0” amount payment claims is that actually no new expenditure is declared to the Commission, so there is nothing to calculate. The cumulative figures remain the same as in the last calculation report which the Commission sent to the Member State through SFC2014. 

Unfortunately this is a problem in the Microsoft Edge browser, not in SFC2014.

The browser doesn't recognize it's a .pdf file. As a workaround you should save the file and give it the name and extension as indicated on the screen, then you will be able to open it in your downloads folder.

The Sending of information by a Member State to the Commission should be electronically signed in accordance with Directive 1999/93/EC.

Sending of the different objects is generating a snapshot document and after the sending an acknowledge
document is generated by the European Commission.