Documents can either be Standalone documents or Referring documents. A Standalone document doesn't refer to anything. A Referring document refers to a CCI number or to an object existing in SFC2021.
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.
When creating a new version of a Rural Devolpment Programme, documents are not copied automatically from the previous version.
It is possible to force this copy afterwards by clicking on the button highlighted in the screenshot below:
