I Kommissionens seneste overslag var der forudset en udgiftsstigning fra 1496 i 1980 til 22% i 1982 ud fra en hypotese om, at udgifterne til støtte af landbrugsmarkedet i samme periode ville stige med ca. 6% om året.
Such expenditure was envisaged in the Commission's latest three-year forecast to rise from 14 % in 1980 to 22% in 1982 on the assumption that market support expenditure for agriculture would rise over the period at around 6 % a year.