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1. Upon adoption of a Council implementing decision referred to in Article 8(2), the Commission shall enter into a loan agreement and operational arrangements with the requesting Member State.

2. The loan agreement shall lay down the availability period and the detailed terms of the support under the SAFE instrument in the form of loans. The loan agreement shall have a maximum duration of 45 years. In addition to the elements laid down in Article 223(4) of the Financial Regulation, the loan agreement shall contain the amount of pre-financing and rules on clearing of pre-financing.

3. The operational arrangements shall set out the relationship between the implementation of a plan and the corresponding financial assistance, including a tentative schedule of disbursement of the loan instalments, with yearly ceilings as appropriate. In addition, these operational arrangements shall set out types of documentary evidence and control rules related to the fulfilment of the specific eligibility rules applied by the Member States in accordance with Article 16, and the detailed elements referred to in Article 14.