Ukraine Facility partial payment assesses reform milestones

The European Commission has assessed Ukraine’s request for partial payment under the Ukraine Facility ninth instalment and concluded that most milestones were satisfactorily fulfilled, while one quantitative step was only partially fulfilled.

• The Commission says 16 steps of the ninth instalment were satisfactorily fulfilled, including reforms on courts, anti-corruption, banking, labour market policy, energy, digital identity, and circular economy; Step 6.3 on supervisory boards of state-owned enterprises was assessed as partially fulfilled.
• The note also records a separately assessed Step 10.21 mitigation factor and cites several quantified investments, including EUR 300 million in education, EUR 200 million in healthcare, EUR 200 million for housing, EUR 30 million in agricultural land demining, and EUR 451 million allocated to sub-national recovery needs.