KIEV, July 13 – Ukraine needs to comply with seven requirements in order to receive the third, EUR 600 million tranche of the European Union's aid, in particular, it should lift the embargo on timber export, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission's Vice President for the Euro and Social Dialogue, said.

All the requirements must be met by October, he said. The assessment is due in November; the payment, in December.

Only seven requirements remain, some of which are now work in progress, for example the electronic asset-declaration system that needs efficient monitoring and verification, Dombrovskis told a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.