Ca. halvdelen af EU's budget bruges på den fælles landbrugspolitik, selv om landbrugets andel er faldet (i 1988 tegnede det sig for næsten 65 % af budgettet), da den aftalte budgetram­me indebærer en langsommere stig­ningstakt for landbrugsudgifterne end for de samlede budgetudgifter.
A little under half of the Community's budget is spent on the common agri­cultural policy (CAP), although this proportion is decreasing (in 1988 it accounted for nearly 65 % of the bud­get) as the financial guidelines for the budget impose slower growth for agri­cultural expenditure than for the bud­get as a whole.