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European Ukraine.
My question is to Guillaume on the Ukraine facility, Ukraine plan.
As I know, finally, the Council adopted the changes to Ukraine plan, in regards of actually Ukraine, facility,
mechanism which, will, would give Ukraine 8.35 billion in 2026 and I'm wondering,
is it still a plan to pay.
8.35 in 2026 and when the first disbursement may be paid and maybe you have some plan of disbursements at the end of the year because actually there's not much time left and much money and much reforms that Ukraine has to perform in exchange of this money.
So thank you so much for your answer. Thank you.
So on the Ukraine plan, as you said, we, we were discussing with, the Ukrainian counterparts to revise the Ukraine,
Ukraine plan, to, to update it in, in, in light of the Ukraine support loan.
There's been a process that has been ongoing.
We, we have discussed in this new plan with the counterparts and then we have assessed and sent it to the Council,
and the Council is finalizing indeed the procedure.
So what I can say, indeed is the plan is for this 8.
€8.35 billion top of Ukraine plan to be channeled in 2026.
There are a list of additional reforms that need to be implemented in the context of this revised plan,
so there are actually 27 new steps, and indeed the plan is to channel this, this additional.
Money in 2026 obviously subject to the delivery on the agreed reform. This is, you know how this works.
You need to do the reforms and once they are fulfilled under the Ukraine plan, you can request the payment.
When it comes to the first request for payment, I don't have here the calendar, but you know the request for payments for the Ukraine plan is every 3 months,
so we can, I mean we can discuss and look at the calendar, but we can expect a request to come in the near future. Thank you very much.
Julián, I see that you had a question in the chat online.
I don't know if you followed from the start.
Siobhan was gonna look into this matter that had been raised by Mose, and she will also revert to you bilaterally, since it's of interest for you.
This brings us to the end of this midday press briefing. Thank you for having participated.
Interpreters, the colleagues, of course, that make it possible. We will be back on Thursday.
We are with our summer schedule, of course, we remain available to answer your questions every day,
but here in the press room, Thursday is the next appointment. Goodbye.