Taken together, these payment limitations would affect 23,500 recipients of farm payments (around 0.3 per cent all farms). The amount of subsidy cut would be €554 million (around 1.7 per cent of the budget for direct payments).
By contrast, the failed Franz Fischler proposal of a hard ceiling of €300,000 would have affected 2,795 recipients and would have cut payments by €750 million (2.3 per cent of the total amount spent on direct payments to farmers).
The Commission’s current proposals fall hardest on Germany, which has a large number of very large farms in the areas of former East Germany, where agriculture was collectivised under Communist rule. 5,310 German farms would be affected (1.6 per cent of the total) and total subsidies would be cut by €270 million (5.4 per cent). Other countries that would be impacted most heavily are the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. See table below.
| Country | Recipients affected | Percentage | Savings (€millions) | Percentage |
| Belgium | 95 | 0.2% | <1 | 0.1% |
| Czech Rep | 540 | 2.9% | 4.4 | 2.1% |
| Denmark | 680 | 1.3% | 14.4 | 1.6% |
| Germany | 5310 | 1.6% | 269.9 | 5.4% |
| Estonia | 10 | <0.1% | <1 | <0.1% |
| Greece | 50 | <0.1% | 1.0 | <0.1% |
| Spain | 2720 | 0.3% | 55.7 | 1.2% |
| France | 3560 | 0.8% | 16.4 | 0.2% |
| Ireland | 310 | 0.2% | 1.6 | 0.1% |
| Italy | 2290 | 0.2% | 62.5 | 1.7% |
| Cyprus | 0 | |||
| Latvia | 0 | |||
| Lithuania | 10 | <0.1% | <1 | <0.1% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | |||
| Hungary | 380 | 0.2% | 5.0 | 1.6% |
| Malta | 0 | |||
| Netherlands | 140 | 0.1% | 23.5 | 4.3% |
| Austria | 60 | <0.1% | 3.4 | 0.5% |
| Poland | 100 | <0.1% | 2.3 | 0.3% |
| Portugal | 590 | 0.3% | 6.0 | 1.1% |
| Slovenia | 0 | |||
| Slovakia | 170 | 1.4% | 1.4 | 1.7% |
| Finland | 20 | <0.1% | <1 | <0.1% |
| Sweden | 370 | 0.6% | 6.6 | 1.1% |
| UK | 6100 | 3.8% | 78.5 | 2.3% |
| EU-25 | 23500 | 0.32% | 554.3 | 1.71% |
Farmsubsidy.org calculations by Jack Thurston based on European Commission’s indicative figures on the distribution of farm payments.