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Financing Strategy

  1. Maintain liquidity and flexibility
    • Strategic cash: to be over €3 bn level at all times
    • Committed credit lines
    • Short and long term programs are in place
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  2. Diversify funding sources and maturities
    • Banks: Revolving Credit Facility
    • Capital markets: in the short-term with the French Commercial Paper program and in the medium- and long-term with our Euro Medium-Term Note program
    • Supranationals: European Investment Bank loan
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  3. Anticipate business needs
    • Long-term debt instruments to match assets or businesses of long-term nature
    • Strict control of customer financing
    • Pro-active long-term hedging policy
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  4. Retain ratings in the single-A category
    • Efficient presence of EADS in Debt Capital Markets
    • Solid balance sheet (strong cash position)
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