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Guarantee agreements The Commission shall conclude a guarantee agreement with each Member State that provides a guarantee referred to in Article 5. That agreement shall set out the rules governing the guarantee, which shall be the same for all Member States, including, in particular, provisions:

(a) establishing the obligation of the Member States to honour guarantee calls made by the Commission in respect of the support under the Instrument in the form of loans referred to in Article 4(1);

(b) ensuring that the guarantee calls are made pro rata, applying the contribution key referred to in Article 5(3); on a temporary basis, the contribution key shall be proportionately adjusted until all the guarantee agreements between the Commission and the Member States enter into force in accordance with Article 5(4);

(c) providing that the guarantee calls ensure the Union’s ability to repay the funds borrowed, pursuant to Article 16(1), on the capital markets or from financial institutions following a non-payment by Ukraine, including cases of changes to the payment schedule for any reason whatsoever as well as expected and unexpected non-payments;

(d) ensuring that where a Member State fails, in full or in part, to honour a guarantee call in time, the Commission, in order to cover for the part corresponding to the Member State concerned, shall have the right to make additional guarantee calls on guarantees provided by other Member States. Such additional calls shall be made pro rata to the relative share of each of the other Member States in the GNI of the Union as referred to in Article 5(3) and adapted without taking into account the relative share of the Member State concerned. The Member State which failed to honour the guarantee call shall remain liable to honour it, and shall also be liable for any resulting costs. The other Member States shall be reimbursed any additional contributions from the amounts recovered by the Commission from the Member State which failed to honour a call. The guarantee called from a Member State shall be limited, in all circumstances, to the overall amount of guarantee contributed by that Member State under the guarantee agreement;

(e) regarding the payment conditions;

(f) ensuring that the guarantee shall cease to be callable as of the date of application of an amendment to Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093, or its successor, which provides for a guarantee of the loans referred to in Article 4(1) of this Regulation under the Union budget over and above the MFF ceilings and up to the limits of the ceilings referred to in Article 3(1) and (2) of Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053.