Annual control report (IGJ,ETC)

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.

You have to do 2 different things:

1/ Create a new version of the ACR under the Audit tab and update it as needed in SFC2014, then send it again to the Commission.

2/ Create a new version of the Assurance package in the Accounts module in SFC2014. Update the link of the ACR with  the new version and send it to the Commission.

The Audit Authorities have to enter the OPINION in the Accounts and not in the Annual Control Report.

This is communicated to the MS Audit Authorities with the guidelines.

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.

For the 'Annual Control Report' and the 'EC Audit Report Correspondence' exist an option to restrict the read permission to some Authorities, this is an additional restriction.

If the Commission sets the status of the ACR as 'EC Assessment with observations' you have to reply uploading the document 'MS Reply to Commission observations' in the ACR.

This document is a non-integral one, so you can upload it at any time to the EC once the ACR is sent (for registration of these non-integral documents we need to know the Programmes covered by this ACR and this is only known and stable after the ACR was sent to the Commission).

You can only attach a file to a National Audit Report & to an Audit Control Report when first the OPs have been identified under the 'Programmes covered' section.

The reason is because as long as there are no programmes covered by the NAR & ACR, the system cannot apply document security based on the Funds covered by these Programmes and therefore requires you to have the document update permission for all Funds.