Already at the agriculture committee stage, MEPs had rejected a series of amendments seeking a change in the proposal's legal basis, on the ground that the programme would lose its "agricultural dimension" because increasing buying on the market would make it a social policy measure instead.
Šāds risinājums piedāvāts tādēļ, ka KLP krājumi reformu rezultātā samazinās, bet pieprasījums pieaug.