The paper deals with legal conditions and possibilities for income support consolidation in the EU. The Author submits several conclusions on the legal aspects of addressing the issue of differing level of direct payments. Firstly, the question of equalization of income support levels is raised for two separate and independent reasons – one being the loss of legitimacy for significant disparities in amounts of direct support paid out to certain production sectors or regions and the other being the pressure of EU Member States unsatisfied with the principle of historical reference as the cornerstone of the current system. Secondly, the line of case-law of Community courts does not seem to support the relevance of arguments presented at EU forum, according to which equal level of direct payments would be tantamount to treating the beneficiaries of the agricultural policy in an equal way. Thirdly, the instruments introduced recently in the health check of the Common Agricultural Policy aimed at approximating the value of payment entitlements do not address the issue of different support level in a cross-border dimension, thus leaving the problem unanswered up until the next financial perspective.
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