Brussels, 15/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday in Strasbourg, the European Parliament adopted the report by Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (Greens, German) in which he calls for the simplified system of aid payments to small farmers who earn small revenues to cover 33% of farmers, against 23% according to the European Commission proposal (see details in EUROPE of 31 May, p.13). To do this, he would like for the revenue ceiling determining the beneficiaries from this system to be raised from EUR 1000 to 1500. The MEPs also call for the proposed system to be implemented until 2005. The EP favours a 20% increase of the direct aids paid to small farmers, in this a case an annual total of EUR 1500 in revenue. This increase would allow to take into account the disparity between the use of manpower and the aids paid.