On the allegedly unfair direct area payments to farmers  

The petitioner calls for new policies and criteria for direct area payments to farmers to be drawn up and implemented, and for all historical criteria and tools for the calculation of these subsidies, including the ‘convergence mechanism’ introduced in 2013, to be scrapped. In the petitioner’s view, area payments should be determined on the basis of factors such as the following: efforts to maintain a continually balanced ecosystem on the land managed directly by the farmer; the preservation of the attractiveness of the landscape in the area concerned; the preservation of social life and culture in rural areas and efforts to implement anti-climate-change policies and principles.