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Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘Facility Agreement’ means an arrangement concluded between the Commission and Moldova laying down the principles for financial cooperation between Moldova and the Commission under this Regulation; this arrangement constitutes a financing agreement within the meaning of Article 114(2) of the Financial Regulation;

(2) ‘enlargement policy framework’ means the overall policy framework for the implementation of this Regulation as defined by the European Council and the Council, and includes the revised enlargement methodology, agreements that establish a legally binding relationship with Moldova, the negotiating frameworks governing accession negotiations with candidate countries, where applicable, as well as resolutions of the European Parliament, relevant communications from the Commission, including, where applicable, on the rule of law, and joint communications from the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy;

(3) ‘loan agreement’ means the agreement concluded between the Union and Moldova laying down the terms of the loan support under the Facility;

(4) ‘Reform Agenda’ means a comprehensive, coherent and prioritised set of targeted reforms and priority investment areas in Moldova, including payment conditions that indicate satisfactory progress or completion of related measures, and an indicative timetable for their implementation;

(5) ‘measures’ means reforms and investments as set out in the Reform Agenda under Chapter III;

(6) ‘payment conditions’ means conditions for the release of funds that take the form of observable and measurable qualitative or quantitative steps to be implemented by Moldova, as set out in the Reform Agenda under Chapter III;

(7) ‘blending operation’ means an operation supported by the Union budget that combines non-repayable forms of support from the Union budget with repayable forms of support from development or other public financial institutions, including export credit agencies, or from commercial finance institutions and investors;

(8) ‘final recipient’ means a person or entity receiving funding under the Facility; for the part of the funding that is made available as financial assistance, final recipient means the treasury of Moldova; for the part of the funding that is made available through the Neighbourhood Investment Platform, final recipient means the contractor or sub-contractor implementing the investment project;

(9) ‘do no significant harm’ means not supporting or carrying out economic activities that do significant harm to any environmental objective, where relevant, within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council ;

(10) ‘the Neighbourhood Investment Platform’ is one of the regional investment platforms referred to under Article 32 of Regulation (EU) 2021/947.