69The concern not to slow down the necessary restructuring of the agricultural sector in those Member States and not to create significant disparities in income or social imbalances by the granting of aid not proportionate to the income level of farmers and the general population was applicable to for the whole of the agricultural sector, and therefore to all direct aid, existing or prospective. Further, if the system of phasing-in of direct payments had been intended to apply only to certain crops, namely those for which direct payments had already been set up before adoption of the Act of Accession, there would have been a risk that the farmers of those Member States would have abandoned them in order to concentrate on the crops for which they could immediately obtain full direct payments.
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