Contributions in the form of guarantees by Member States
Article 9
1. Member States may complement the provisioning in respect of macro-financial assistance kept in the common provisioning fund, by providing guarantees up to a total amount of EUR 3 660 000 000 in respect of the Union’s exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine under Article 1 of this Decision and under Decision (EU) 2022/1201 (the ‘covered MFAs’). 2. Where contributions from the Member States are made, they shall be provided in the form of irrevocable, unconditional and on-demand guarantees through a guarantee agreement to be concluded with the Commission, in accordance with Article 10. 3. The relative share of the contribution of the Member State concerned (contribution key) to the amount referred to in paragraph 1 shall correspond to the relative share of that Member State in the total gross national income of the Union, as resulting from heading ‘General Revenue’ of the budget for 2022, Part A (‘Financing of the Union’s annual budget, Introduction’), Table 4, column (1), set out in the general budget of the Union for the financial year 2022, as definitively adopted on 24 November 2021 ( 13 ) . 4. The guarantees shall become effective in respect of each Member State as of the date of entry into force of the guarantee agreement, referred to in Article 10, between the Commission and the Member State concerned.