The SOPO intervention is a novelty in direct payments, with which we want to contribute to establishing a balance between the need to grow food and protect the climate and the environment. The schemes are more demanding than conditionality, they go beyond normal agricultural practice and the relevant minimum requirements for the use of fertilizers and plant protection products and animal welfare, as well as other relevant mandatory requirements laid down in national and EU law, and go beyond the conditions laid down for agricultural activity in the form of maintenance agricultural areas and at the same time differ from above-standard surface interventions from rural development (e.g. KOPOP).