With a view to allowing Member States to address the needs of their agricultural sectors or to strengthen their rural development policy in a more flexible way, they should be given the possibility to transfer funds from their direct payments ceilings to their support assigned for rural development and vice versa. At the same time, those Member States in which the level of direct support remains lower than 90 % of the Union average level of support should be given the possibility to transfer additional funds from their support assigned for rural development to their direct payments ceilings.
Le cur ar chumas na mBallstát aghaidh a thabhairt ar riachtanais a n-earnálacha talmhaíochta nó a mbeartas forbartha tuaithe a threisiú ar bhealach níos solúbtha, ba cheart go mbeidís in ann cistí a aistriú óna n-uasmhéideanna íocaíochta dírí chuig an tacaíocht atá sannta acu don fhorbairt tuaithe agus vice versa Ag an am céanna, ba cheart caoi a thabhairt do na Ballstáit sin ina bhfuil leibhéal na tacaíochta dírí níos lú ná 90 % den mheánleibhéal tacaíochta san Aontas, cistí breise a aistriú óna dtacaíocht a shanntar don fhorbairt tuaithe go dtí a n-uasmhéideanna d'íocaíochtaí díreacha.