In addition, MEPs contend that the extra funding released by the increase in modulation should be used to finance more "challenges" than the four identified by the Commission (climate change, renewable energy, water management and biodiversity) and that this Community money should not have to be co-financed by national budgets as is currently the case for rural development programmes.
Tajā abas iestādes lemj ar vienādām tiesībām, un Lisabonas līgumā tāda attiecināta arī uz lauksaimniecības jautājumiem.