In practice, the application of this rate has proved to be extremely complicated and, very often, because of the rapid increase in Community expenditure, the budgetary authority - the EP and the Council - is very often faced with a budget well above the ceiling obtained by the application of this rate, so that the EP and the Council have to agree on a new rate.
I praksis har anvendelsen af denne sats vist sig yderst kompliceret, og som følge af den hurtige udvikling af fællesskabsudgifterne står bud getmyndigheden - EP og Rådet - ofte over for et budget, der går langt ud over de almindelige betingel ser for anvendelse af maksimalsatsen, og som nødvendiggør en fælles afgørelse af EP og Rådet.