27.
Insurance Premium and Guarantee Fees
The Participants shall not waive in part, or in total, insurance premium or guarantee fees.
28.
Aid
The Participants shall not provide aid support, unless this is in the form of an untied grant. However, the Participants shall consider sympathetically any requests for a Common Line for tied aid for humanitarian purposes.
CHAPTER VI
PROCEDURES
29.
Prior Notification, Matching and Information Exchange
In the event of officially supported competition for a sale or lease, aircraft competing with those from another category or with those covered by other Parts of the Sector Understanding shall, for that specific sale or lease, be able to benefit from the same terms and conditions as those other aircraft. The procedures for prior notification, matching and information exchange set out in the Arrangement shall apply to this Part of the Sector Understanding. Furthermore, the Participants may request a consultation if there is any reason to believe that another Participant is offering an officially supported credit on terms that do not conform to the Sector Understanding. The consultation shall be held within 10 days, but otherwise follow the procedures set out in Article 54 of the Arrangement.
30.
Review
The Participants shall review the procedures and provisions of this Sector Understanding regularly in order to bring them closer to market conditions. However, if market conditions or customary financing practices change considerably, a review may be requested at any time.
PART 3
USED AIRCRAFT, SPARE ENGINES, SPARE PARTS, MAINTENANCE AND SERVICE CONTRACTS
CHAPTER VII
SCOPE
31.
Form and Scope of Application
Part 3 of the Sector Understanding, which complements the Arrangement, sets out the special guidelines which apply to officially supported export credits relating to the sale or lease of used aircraft; and of spare engines, spare parts, maintenance and service contracts in conjunction with both new and used aircraft. It does not apply to hovercraft or to flight simulators, which are subject to the terms of the Arrangement. The relevant provisions of Parts 1 and 2 of this Sector Understanding apply except as follows.