The MFA Loan should be linked to policy conditions to be set out in a memorandum of understanding between the Commission and Ukraine (the MoU). Those conditions should be consistent with the qualitative and quantitative steps contained in the Annex to Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1447, and with any amendments thereto made by the time the MoU is adopted. Additionally, the MoU should include a commitment by Ukraine to promote cooperation with the Union on the recovery, reconstruction and modernisation of Ukraine’s defence industry, in line with the objectives of Union programmes aiming at the recovery, reconstruction and modernisation of the Ukraine Defence Technological and Industrial Base and other relevant Union programmes. The necessary steps should also be taken to ensure coordination and complementarity of the bilateral loans, including the MFA Loan, with the other donors. In that regard, the Ukraine Donor Platform should be used as an already established forum for such exchange.
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