Article 2 · Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/1204

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Article 2Amendments to Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1447#

Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1447 is amended as follows:

(1)in Article 2, the following paragraph is added:‘6.Where Ukraine has not satisfactorily fulfilled one or more qualitative and quantitative steps due under a given instalment, but it has already satisfactorily fulfilled one or more qualitative and quantitative steps due under a subsequent instalment or can demonstrate that a quantitative step has been partially fulfilled, the Council, upon a proposal from the Commission, may take into account such early or partial fulfilment as a factor in determining the amount of the partial payment to Ukraine under the first of those instalments. Account shall be taken of the importance of the qualitative and quantitative steps that have not been fulfilled and of the reasons for the non-fulfilment thereof, as well as of the importance of the quantitative and qualitative steps that have been fulfilled early.’;

(2)in Article 3, the following paragraph is added:‘5.Where Ukraine has not satisfactorily fulfilled one or more qualitative and quantitative steps due under a given instalment, but it has already satisfactorily fulfilled one or more qualitative and quantitative steps due under a subsequent instalment or can demonstrate that a quantitative step has been partially fulfilled, the Council, upon a proposal from the Commission, may take into account such early or partial fulfilment as a factor in determining the amount of the partial payment to Ukraine under the first of those instalments. Account shall be taken of the importance of the qualitative and quantitative steps that have not been fulfilled and of the reasons for the non-fulfilment thereof, as well as of the importance of the quantitative and qualitative steps that have been fulfilled early.’.